The Whispers video appreciation thread

disco_che

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This video has been highly acclaimed on the strut before:



But there's more to enjoy:




Unrivalled.
 
What's amazing about the Keep On Loving Me video is that I've yet to show it to someone who doesn't immediately fall in love with it. And if they're from LA, people go especially ape-shit.





btw, dude on the right in the still shot of the "This Time" video looks like Herbie.
 
Woimsah said:What's amazing about the Keep On Loving Me video is that I've yet to show it to someone who doesn't immediately fall in love with it. And if they're from LA, people go especially ape-shit.










I was going to say the same thing. Regardless of your feelings about the song (of which I am quite fond), you're probably going to love the video.





My indie rocker brother and his friends posted it all over facebook and got geeked over it.
 
mini said:




I remember an NWA interview where Eazy-E was like "now u got the Whispers rappin???"





 






had to be posted eventually. sort of weird to see em do something with a budget.
 
disco_che said:















Does anybody recognize what city this walking to the music takes place in? I want to go there and re-enact it with my wife and kids.
 
Phill With 2 Ls said:disco_che said:















Does anybody recognize what city this walking to the music takes place in? I want to go there and re-enact it with my wife and kids.




I'm no expert, but I remember someone saying Century City, LA
 
Phill With 2 Ls said:disco_che said:















Does anybody recognize what city this walking to the music takes place in? I want to go there and re-enact it with my wife and kids.




Im guessing Detroit. Google the skyline and see those three shiny buildings.
 
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batmon said:Phill With 2 Ls said:disco_che said:
















Does anybody recognize what city this walking to the music takes place in? I want to go there and re-enact it with my wife and kids.




Im guessing Detroit. Google the skyline and see those three shiny buildings.




100% Los Angeles. They start outside the Pacific Design Center in W Hollywood (or "The Blue Whale", as we call it -- you might recognize it, however, as Sandra Bullock's apartment complex in Demolition Man).











Then when they're walking, that's Century City, before they remodeled the crap out of it.



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I can't believe I've never seen that video before. I've wasted my life.





I now want to do a remake of this around Potsdamer Platz.
 
I have watched this nearly 500 times. Never fails to put me in a good mood. That track kills in the club too.
 
coolchris said:I have watched this nearly 500 times. Never fails to put me in a good mood. That track kills in the club too.




I think somebody might have done one of those smack-house/slo-mo-disco re-edits of it as well. I seem to remember hearing one which flipped a Whispers tune a few years ago.
 
coolchris said:I have watched this nearly 500 times. Never fails to put me in a good mood.




Caldwell especially.
 






Marvin has some reverential songs. I think they are the only dudes to give Hathaway that love.
 
DOR said:coolchris said:I have watched this nearly 500 times. Never fails to put me in a good mood.




Caldwell especially.

No doubt. On my list of Music Video Moves To Someday Master, the Nicholas Caldwell newspaper-fold-transitioning-into-Mashed-Potato-quickstep maneuver from the "Keep On Lovin' Me" video is definitely close to the top.





I am, alas, still toiling near the bottom while endlessly fine-tuning my Eddie Money popeyed-fingersnap-white-scarf-dip-spin-transitioning-into-passenger-side-entry from the "Shakin'" video.





I'll get there, though. Caldwell is the beacon. "If it's worth doing, it's worth over-doing."