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IT’S ALICE IN CHAINS’ DECISION TO WORK WITH AN ALIEN

 Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 12:00pm by

I feel like I’ve been ragging on Alice in Chains a little bit lately, and I feel bad about that because I’m a huge Alice in Chains fan and I love Black Gives Way to Blue.

That being said, the band’s latest video, for the beautiful “Your Decision,” is slightly worse than the video for “Check My Brain.” Which is weird, because the director, Stephen Schuster, also directed the band’s totally awesome video for “A Looking In View.”

My beef isn’t with the presence of some chick named Amanda Fields, who was apparently on Project Runway (I’ve never seen it). I mean, she’s either had too much work done or just naturally looks like a freakin’ alien, but that’s neither here nor there. No, my complaint is mostly that the video is just lame – it seems to be taking its cues from Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, but in the worst possible way. What the themes of that film have to do with this song isn’t clear, and a lot of the symbolic imagery subsequently feels forced and trite.

Still an awesome song, though.

-AR

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  • http://www.last.fm/user/groverXIII groverXIII

    The people in the animal masks seem more of a reference to Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’… I didn’t think it was a bad video, although I do agree that chick has had too much work done.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Frankgutza-Lamia/552360539 Frankgutza Lamia

    I love AIC love the song to me the video has nothing to do with the song at all. Maybe it’s just me but the part where the guy was in the chair with his arm tied down kinda reminded me of Layne and his heroin addiction. The list could maybe stand for victims who have died due to heroin that’s what i got out of the video don’t flame me either agree or disagree and tell me why

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Gavin/1396340262 Mark Gavin

    I’d put it in her butt.

  • rachel

    Hmmm, no plot line. Good song, though.

  • http://infinitybasement.wordpress.com Jon L.

    Definitely saw that Eyes Wide Shut reference, but that chick is hot!

    I think the point of the song must be “It’s your decision to go to a victorian-esque-swanky-fuck party with a 90% chance of being cannibalized by Neo-classical socialites or not”

  • justin

    i didn’t think this video was that bad at all. it wasn’t nearly as bad as “check my brain.”

    • D. Avid the Thrasher

      Yeah. Check My Brain made me feel like I had a BAD acid trip.

      And Jon L.?
      That chick looks like a cat.

  • Joe the Destroyer

    I like the antique Gibsons. it gives a nice touch.