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A Forum Game with Music Videos

Postby AlexTG » Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:24 pm

Here's a game which should be fun and allow us to share our favourite foreign language songs with each other. I'll embed a music video from youtube in this post, then the next poster needs to embed a music video which is somehow related to mine, then the next poster should post one related to that etc. Relation can be based either on the song or the video.

Here's an example sequence using English language songs:
Queen - We will Rock You
The Clash - Rock the Casbah [lyrical similarity]
Will Smith - Will 2k [samples previous song]
Missy Elliott - Lose Control [as with previous clip, contains fake old timey dance sequences]

You get the idea, and there's lots of other ways you could relate clips. Feel free to be subtle. No English songs, unless they incorporate other languages somehow. Songs from your native language are cool (if it's not English).

To embed a video, you need the youtube id, which is in the url, it'll look something like this:

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[youtube]NrgcRvBJYBE[/youtube]


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Re: The Music Video Game

Postby daegga » Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:10 pm

Let's see if I get this right.

Small child playing at the beach.
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Re: The Music Video Game

Postby AlexTG » Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:17 pm

That song is beautiful! I didn't know polkas could be beautiful :o!

How about the two little children when they're all grown up :D? (nsfw if you're in a conservative workplace, maybe :roll: )

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Re: The Music Video Game

Postby AlexTG » Mon Aug 24, 2015 2:47 pm

Replying to my own post since it's been a while. Link: sailors.

Noir Désir - Aux Sombres Héros de l'amer



Had to repeat the same band as my first post cause I couldn't think of anything else :oops:.

There's lots of opportunities for linking from this one: getting lost, drowning, manuscripts, harmonica solo, heroes, oceans, le vide (emptiness/nothingness/the void)...
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Re: A Forum Game with Music Videos

Postby daegga » Mon Aug 24, 2015 3:48 pm

For some reason the Scandinavians hardly ever make music videos. Here is a fan video that is quite illustrative of the content:
Laleh - Kom Tilda (Swedish)


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Re: A Forum Game with Music Videos

Postby AlexTG » Wed Aug 26, 2015 12:33 am

Same basic story, but this one ends a little more hopeful :D.

t.A.T.u - Nas ne dogonyat/Нас не догонят (Russian)
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Re: A Forum Game with Music Videos

Postby vonPeterhof » Wed Aug 26, 2015 10:10 am

A sorta flimsy connection, but here's another one with two people driving around in a car:

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Re: A Forum Game with Music Videos

Postby kimchizzle » Thu Aug 27, 2015 4:41 am

Another car connection, but it has more things for other videos, swimming, backpacking, etc.
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Re: A Forum Game with Music Videos

Postby vonPeterhof » Fri Aug 28, 2015 11:10 am

Going with the swimming connection. I know, an end credits reel is technically not a music video, but it's apparently the closest thing the song has to an official video anyway, and besides there's plenty of material for connections in there.

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Re: A Forum Game with Music Videos

Postby daegga » Fri Aug 28, 2015 1:41 pm

Well...fish :D
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