Tynan's Anger

I Wanna Be Your Dog from LEGS on Vimeo.

This video is getting a lot of attention in the film universe, and it's being called the most subversive cover song of the year. Very Short List describes it as such:

Have the words "I wanna be your dog" ever taken on such dark overtones as when each pretty face blends into the next, all in the hopes of pleasing a visibly bored casting director?

 I don't know about that. I do know that this video caused an intense physical pain in my brain. Funny Games didn't even cause that kind of pain: it caused a lot of mental stress that paid off in the long term (much like exercise).

There's kind one glaring problem here: it is made from within the fashion industry, much like a TV show that tells you to turn off the TV as often at it tells you "don't touch that dial!". I am not sure whether Georgie Greville, the director, is (or identifies as) a man or women, and it doesn't matter. All I can say is that no matter how intense the image is, it never goes beyond "woah! hot models are like sex slaves!" This is the kind of video that even the most intelligent liberals can laugh at, acknowledge as "true," shake their heads at and move on. Or in other words, this is Dov Charney's business model.

You can dispute that. You can't dispute the pain it caused in my brain.

Here's a video that succeeds in doing what the above video tries to do:

Jokes.com
Maria Bamford - Makeup Commercial
comedians.comedycentral.com
Joke of the Day Stand-Up Comedy Free Online Games

Labels: american apparel, fashion industry, feminism, i wanna be your dog, maria bamford, punk rock, Stooges