SEVENDUST’S VIDEO FOR “PRODIGAL SON”: A LITTLE SIDE BOOB AND A WHOLE LOTTA SUCKITUDE
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 2:06pm by Axl RosenbergWhen we interviewed Sevendust guitarist Clint Lowery last month, he made it pretty clear that he reads our site on a regular basis. And he was a super nice dude. And much, much bigger than I am. So I hate to think that he might be reading this, because I’m about to say something rude about the video for Sevendust’s new single, “Prodigal Son.”
This video sucks. It’s lame, it’s boring, it’s ugly, it’s cheap looking, it’s way too literal, it’s everything that gives videos a bad name. I mean there’s some side boob so that makes my inner Butt-head happy, but mostly, I just wish this video didn’t suck so bad. Check it out for yourself below; if you’re really, really lucky, Vimeo’s crappy stream will keep stopping and starting at random intervals as you try to watch it, before freezing your computer.
Clint, if you’re reading this, drop me a line. We’ll hook you up with a decent director for your next video, and all will be good in the hood.
-AR
hey, the song surprisingly sounds a lot like…every other Sevendust songs on their every album ever.
Happy 1999 everybody! Woooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
With a production budget of $425, and a church straight outta Georgia….
Aside from the pseudo-boob, very poor and uncreative.
You know, despite the dumbed down concept of the video, I thought it was pretty good. The performance footage was sweet and it was nice to have a video that didn’t look like it was put together by a high school film-making class. At any rate, bad or good, it’s not like MTV’s gonna play it.
And Sevendust still kicks ass 11 years later.
And when I speak of “a video that looks like it was put together by a high school film-making class” I am referring to the videos from “Alpha.”
I found it odd that they didn’t even let Sonny be in a video for a song that he recorded.
This new video is GREAT!!! Its by far the best video Sevendust has EVER done. You usually see these guys have a very low cost video. This looks like they actually spent some money on this one!! Great job boys! Does anyone know where they shot this?
Video won’t load for me, but fucking props to side boob.