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Synopsis
I Get Around follows Dragonette's lead-singer Martina Sorbara through a non-descript rock club, as she plays the part of promiscuous party girl, transforming into the gender and looks of whoever she lays lips and eyes on. This sexually charged video is matched perfectly with Dragonette's electro-anthem about one-night-stands and past lovers; the first track from their 2007 LP Galore.
Wendy Morgan is a Canadian commercial and music video director who has made ad spots for Ikea, Girls Inc., and MTV Canada, that are often bizarre or bemusing and occasionally tackle the ungraspable nuances of Canadian national identity. Wendy's MTV commercials are too good for MTV though - who knows, maybe in topsy-turvy Canada, that sad vestige of a former pop culture powder-keg has managed to retain some semblance of watchability?
Regardless of MTV's contemporary significance, its legacy lives on in cyberspace as the music video medium continues to thrive on a newly global scale thanks in no small part to directors like Morgan. She's crafted unaffected, imaginative videos for bands like The Unicorns and Dragonette - bands which don't get any significant air time on the highly corporatized cable networks, but are now finding a home on online.
Awash with neon lights, party promiscuity and all the visual associations to a song entitled "I Get Around" that could come to mind, Morgan's clip is hinged on a knowing kind of decadence particular to the electro sub-genre du jour.
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User Review
That is officially the
most pretentious synopsis
I've ever read.
Semblance? Du jour? class="caps">MTV's
contemporary
significance? I'm going
to take a punt and guess
that perhaps it's in fact
post-modern art school
wankers who haven't
evolved past a primitive
early 90s grunge
'philosophy' and throw
around meaningless
adjectives; that is wrong
with not just Canada but
the whole global creative
industry 'en generale'.