aaakknu wrote:Linguaphile wrote:Do you want us to post videos for which we think the video itself is very well-done, or videos for which we especially like the music?
I was more interested in the visual / storytelling aspect, that is, videos that have one or more of these features:
1. are visually beautiful, with great cinematography
2. tell the story of the song in a creative / interesting way
3. have good choreography
Cool, that's what I thought you meant! All of the ones I posted have one or more of the features too. For #2 (telling the story), I think the best of what I posted are these three: Hommik (Curly Strings), Naised, naised (Naised köögis), Kallimale (Trad. Attack), and Mõtsavele mäng (Mari Kalkun).
By the way, I thought that Kallimale video could use some explanation if anyone is interested since the voices at the end do not sound like professional singers and other viewers might wonder about it, there's actually a good reason for this and it's part of its charm.
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They aren't professional singers, they are just random Estonian women whose voices were recorded in Kovaljovo village near Omsk, Siberia, in 1995 as part of a ethnography project recording Estonian folk songs from the older generation before they were lost. The song is about young lovers who got caught kissing by the woman's mother, and the idea of these old women in an Estonian village so far from Estonia in Siberia singing this song together about young lovers, that they probably had learned years ago when they were young themselves, made an impact on me. The names of the original singers are listed in the video description. The women in the video are not the actual singers (who have probably passed away by now, since the original recording of them was more than 25 years ago), just people who were used as actors/actresses in Setumaa to make the video.
Also, the curious sheep at the end are adorable.
The video in Hommik is of course a dream and I love the symbolism of the windows.
Mõtsavele mäng is about the Estonian soldiers who lived in the forest during World War II and stayed there when the Soviets came after the war.
And I love the idea that the women in the song Naised, naised provide the fish for the man's fishing trip, among other things. LOL!
I will probably post more videos later because I can think of some right now for which I can't remember the titles or artists, just the content of the video itself - I like them but I can't find them, until I remember the title or artist to search for.
Naava wrote:https://youtu.be/k3Xfih67nGIIt's a parody of
this song. They're hungry because they left for a hike but forgot to ration their food. The wind took their last breadcrumbs and now they're ready to eat
anything to get enough energy to go home.
I saw this exact one for the first time yesterday - it came up in my recommendations while I was searching for the ones that I posted! I guess even the Youtube algorithm agrees with you that it goes together with the others in this thread.
Naava wrote:https://youtu.be/lUxycEg_cdkThis one is not my favourite because of how good it is, but because how weird it is.
Someone really thought "I know what'd make a good music video" and then convinced everyone else that they need to get people dressed in
körtti style clothes and make them listen to the band in a barn while standing still and expressionless - and then pepper that with a random Hamlet reference for no reason. Perfect!
(And... that's
körtti style clothes? In Estonia
kört is
so much more colorful... and it's a woman's skirt. No wonder the singers in the other song wanted to go to Norway where the gáktis are better!
)
Kihnu körte kandminõCount this among those things I never thought I'd say, but that campfire scene with the Land Squid Thing is adorable.