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Niche Nonsense
United States
Приєднався 17 гру 2021
Small parts of the big picture. Essays on the overlooked parts of life and culture that make this weird, strange mess worthwhile.
Why'd they play that? The art of campaign walk-out songs
When Kamala Harris walked out onto a stage in Philadelphia, you could hear her campaign before you could see it. It was the sound of Freedom.... by Beyonce.
Today we're deep diving into the art of the presidential walk out song. How campaigns craft a message without saying a word. We're looking at why they matter, what makes for a good one and looking back on what campaigns from Nixon to Clinton to Obama to today have used and what they were trying to say.
Niche Nonsense is a video essay channel that takes nonsense seriously and explores cultural absurdity.
#videoessay #nichenonsense #culture #beyonce #kamala #trump #political songs
Today we're deep diving into the art of the presidential walk out song. How campaigns craft a message without saying a word. We're looking at why they matter, what makes for a good one and looking back on what campaigns from Nixon to Clinton to Obama to today have used and what they were trying to say.
Niche Nonsense is a video essay channel that takes nonsense seriously and explores cultural absurdity.
#videoessay #nichenonsense #culture #beyonce #kamala #trump #political songs
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Відео
The comedian from outer space
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Julio Torres is a stand-up comedian from El Salvador who broke through as a writer and stand-up working on SNL, My Favorite Shapes, creating and starring in Los Espookys and Fantasmas for Max and his latest directorial debut, Problemista. Niche Nonsense is a video essay channel that takes nonsense seriously and explores cultural absurdity. #videoessay #nichenonsense #culture #juliotorres #comed...
I hope this video bores you
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Out of nothing, something. Niche Nonsense is a video essay channel that takes nonsense seriously and explores cultural absurdity. #videoessay #nichenonsense #culture
Lessons from Korean soap opera smugglers
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On my way to the DMZ, the border between North and South Korea, my tour guide told a story of North Korean defectors who now smuggled K-Dramas back to the elites in Pyonyang. My mind drifted off as I imagined the underground world of soap opera smugglers. Is there a Days of Our Lives cartel somewhere out there? Turf wars with The Young and the Restless? But then I snapped back started wonder… w...
Joy is an act of resistance
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The phrase first snuck into my head from the title of the IDLES album and it's been rattling around ever since. Joy needs to be a part of any push towards necessary change. It's not the answer to everything, but without it as a part of the equation, how are you going to convince anyone that the future will be better with you at the helm. This isn't a plea to stick a band-aid over deep wounds an...
What's in the ground? | Killers of the Flower Moon
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Coursing through Killers of the Flower Moon is tension in space. Everything stems from the power the ground holds beneath it. What’s just below the surface driving it all. Whether it’s land and the rights to it. Or the history it holds, a way of life clinging to it. The oil and wealth hiding within. The bodies betrayed and buried beneath. It’s about a fight to stay above ground and the story of...
When the crowd sings back
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Niche Nonsense is a video essay channel that takes nonsense seriously and explores cultural absurdity. #videoessay #nichenonsense #culture #crowdsingsback #crowdsinging
Why does Hollywood love red coats?
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Everywhere I look, coats are turning red. Everything movie shown/referenced: Memories of Murder, Schindler's List, Handmaid's Tale, Turning Red, Juno, Submarine, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Color of Pomegranates, Red (Three Colors Trilogy), Black Panther, Charade, In the Mood for Love, Fight Club, Rebel Without A Cause, Barry Lyndon, Joker, E.T., Scarlett Letter, Pretty Little Liars, Little...
What we lose when old trees fall
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There's a quiet power hidden in old trees that reminds us we're a part of something bigger, something that can outlast us all. And they help bridge this stupid gap we've built up between ourselves and nature. We are nature. And as more old-growth forests fall, we are losing precious reminders that we are not separate from nature but a part of it. It's this paradigm shift that we need in our cul...
John Wilson shows us where to look
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*extreme John Wilson voice* "hey youtube" "How to with John Wilson", HBO's greatest show, is a video essay on how to pay attention to the world around you. For years, he's set out to the streets with a camera in search of absurdity. The result is a highlight reel of captured magic. He takes the chaos of everyday life and sculpts it into a hilarious, awkward, jaw-dropping exploration of how weir...
When the Grateful Dead sponsored Lithuania
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This is the story of how the Grateful Dead, the nation of Lithuania, and Olympic basketball combined to create one of the weirdest clashes of culture and history I've ever seen. Niche Nonsense is a video essay channel that takes nonsense seriously and explores cultural absurdity. #videoessay #nichenonsense #culture #gratefuldead #lithuania #dreamteam
Shel Silverstein owes me $1,000,000*
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Shel Silverstein owes me money. A million to be exact. You see, every child yearns to be a banker. Hedge funds and stock options dance through our dreams. We play house just to talk about the mortgage. Sure we watch cartoons to please our parents, but we all know children only care about consulting. That is until the fateful day a hippie hands them a book by Shel Silverstein- maybe even Roald D...
Adrianne Lenker is our greatest songwriter
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If nature could sing, it’d sound like Adrianne Lenker. It’d pull you in like a wave, spin you round like the breeze and like her music it’d ground you in your body like a root reaching out, holding you still, and letting the sun shine down. And slowly, you’d see yourself start to grow. She might just be our generation’s greatest songwriter. Only time will tell. And her band, Big Thief, to me, i...
When A.I. sees itself on screen
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How A.I. movies become a self-fulfilling prophecy Right now our artificial intelligence is trained on referencing what was, to create what will be. And if all there is to reference is dystopia and machines acting as an existential threat, we're resigning to no control over what's to come. It's doomer-ism. And while After Yang and Her are the closest we have, I think we can even do better. This ...
We're living in the golden age of Little Simz
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We're living in the golden age of Little Simz
Heavyweight, can a podcast change the past?
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Heavyweight, can a podcast change the past?
The secret meaning of songs titled "Sunflower"
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The secret meaning of songs titled "Sunflower"
It's illegal not to dance to Remi Wolf
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It's illegal not to dance to Remi Wolf
Why does "Jeb!" have an exclamation point?
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Why does "Jeb!" have an exclamation point?
Joe Pera brings comfort to alt comedy
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Joe Pera brings comfort to alt comedy
If you want a good answer, show you care
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If you want a good answer, show you care
Swiss Army Man, what does absurdity sound like?
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Swiss Army Man, what does absurdity sound like?
I'm so glad I'm not the only person who's fascinated and obsessed with Jeb!'s campaign
darius what are you doing in my closet
this video is so insanely well made
I wonder if Darius is God with them
As a relatively new obsessed fan, thank you for this video!
Many times, scratching, nicos red truck are so good. Him and Mk.Gee his guitarist (actually has really good stuff of his own) are real good together!
Thank you so much for making this video, a pillar it such a good analogy for the dead! Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. Its amazing the amount of love this band was able to spread throughout the entire world a pillar they were indeed
incredible video! seriously the editing, story telling, all of it just flows so well. very surprised you're not a bigger creator
"what art this art create" IS INSANE
Just discovered her. Man. She’s incredible. I can’t wait to see where her career goes. Songwriting of this quality only comes around a few times a generation.
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Damn I hate UA-cam sometimes. How does a video like this not have more views?
Karma Police, by Radiohead
It's 2028. You're in Iowa to announce your bid and get handed the aux. What are you queuing up?
Don't stop believing :)
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Commenting for the algorithm whattup
My favorite is ingydar
who is the girl at 06:50?
Kimya Dawson
“What flavor is Flamming Hot Cheetos?” Darius “Hot” Earn “I am tasting hot”
I haven't watched this show before. I love Lakeith Stanfield. I first saw him in Haunted Mansion. I need to work on watching this.
Absolutely beautifully crafted video about such an awesome talent ❤️
thank you! appreciate the kindness
I want to believe
i literally started crying
dijon's music always settles me into a kind of melancholy i am comfortable with. my 'gateway' Dijon song was "drunk." i'm so grateful his music entered my life and it's so cool to know that others have felt this way too.
i come back to this video every few months
suchhhhh a good video
Excellent analysis
Sadness As A Gift became my song of the year on first listen. She can paint these pictures that are so obscure, yet so vivid and grounded in such deep, strong emotions that we all feel, but struggle to put into words. Her radical empathy is inspiring and just by watching her talk in her interviews, she’s so adamantly present and willing to connect with the people she interacts with. People like her can make almost anyone feel safe and heard.
Still wondering what a Dragon New Warm Mountain is
i love her music sm it connects on such a deep unexplainable level there isnt a lot of artists that i have heard do what she can do
Love this, boredom is so important. Do you have a contact email?
While it is true that grateful dead + Lithuania is a somewhat random coincidence, lithuania + basketball is a well known certainty. Basketball is a religion and humble people are grateful that a rock group supported them.
Honestly I feel like she's one of the best songwriters and artists, period. Her poetry and melodies are just so special
Beautiful
Surely "Cheech and Chong..." or "Friday" were diverse/minority slacker/stoner films ahead of the game?
I'm thinking Cheech and Chong were a depiction of holdovers from the Boomer (60s, Vietnam) generation. They were viewed and laughed at by young Gen X kids in the 80s...
Clickbait :((… this video was the opposite of boring smh 😤
haha stick around and I'm sure I'll bore you eventually
I second this feeling
Amazing
I analyzed your channel and found that there are some problems with your channel, I can help you
Really interesting
The Absolutely video popped up on my suggestions last week, via the algorithm mentioned. I've been obsessed with it all week. It really hit me very very hard as a music fan and songwriter. And now I've just stumbled upon this video and its almost the same feeling again. Because every single word, sentence and opinion in this essay feels like its being pulled from my own heart and mind. I don't have many around me who'd appreciate this style of art, so hearing this essay was like sitting down for a friendly chat with a complete stranger who was also blown away by the Absolutely film ...and therefore not entirely a stranger. You "can't wait to see the art this art creates"? For me this essay is part of that legacy you've touched on. Thank you. Subscribed 👍🏻
Comparing Darius to Abed is genius. How did I never connect the two before?
"It starts to erode until we're only showing stories about rich people with awful taste and sterile houses that look like *memories have never been made inside of them"* This is the most perfect description for the 'luxury greige' trend I've ever heard, and something I've struggled to articulate yet always felt on a visceral level. It's rather dystopian in a way
nah fr he snapped with that one
Amazing work man. Probably the best UA-cam video essay I have ever watched. The Slacker and The Artist are one; abiding in a realm outside of the societal Skinner box, where the joy and play of childhood continues well into adulthood. The struggles of survival and reproduction don't define the human expereince; and in indigenous life, were mastered to a degree whereby one would only spend a fraction of their days engaged in meeting their material needs. But we are all born into the societal Skinner box and have to play its games. The goal is NEVER to create an ego out of the way you earn money; or to let societal demands divorce you from the joy and pleasure innate to a healthy functioning human body in a world of endless novelty and excitement. Life is to be enjoyed. The slacker transforms the mundane and monotonous into beauty; like the sages of old.
Looks exhausting
yeah "one of the best writers of our generation" is what i said when i first heard her too
John Wilson is A genius. His raw personality is what I loved most about him because alot of people we see in media are too trained to speak to an audience which I feel like takes away from how the regular joes behave. Seeing someone like him be awkward makes it easier for me to connect with the show overall. Love this videogreat job bud Ya did good
This was a really beautiful video I have been listening to loads of interviews with artists recently trying to inspire an album of my own and she for sure is inspiring. This video was really lovely ❤
Thank you
Adrianne’s music has such an ethereal, eternal quality to it and it’s done so much for me both as an artist and a person. Your video perfectly captured her essence and moved me to tears. Adrianne truly is a gift and so is this video - thank you 🙏