Rocking Out
June 29, 2007 12:09 PM   Subscribe

Rock and Roll, Baby! (video)
posted by empath (22 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
That kid is going to hate his parents later on for having really crap taste in music.
posted by psmealey at 12:12 PM on June 29, 2007


Cute video, though.
posted by psmealey at 12:15 PM on June 29, 2007


Hooray for Friday!
posted by Viomeda at 12:20 PM on June 29, 2007


Didn't we learn *anything* from the hippies? Children are not trip toys. (Also, this would have been way cooler if the kid could have actually *played* the guitar. )
posted by dejah420 at 12:20 PM on June 29, 2007


That kid has got an awesome feel for stage performance...cute, but also pretty impressive for a baby.
posted by tristeza at 12:23 PM on June 29, 2007


My one year old only knows about 12 words, but I swear she took one look at this, shook her head and mumbled "poseur." Then she went back to chilling with Miles Davis.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 12:25 PM on June 29, 2007 [2 favorites]


also pretty impressive for a baby.

He's actually an Indian midget.
posted by empath at 12:26 PM on June 29, 2007 [2 favorites]


That kid is going to hate his parents later on for having really crap taste in music.

That's inevitable anyway, no?
posted by Pollomacho at 12:27 PM on June 29, 2007


Good point.
posted by psmealey at 12:34 PM on June 29, 2007


also pretty impressive for a baby.

He's actually an Indian midget.


Did you see him deliver that baby by c-section?
posted by From Bklyn at 12:46 PM on June 29, 2007


That kid's going to be a heroine addict by the time he's potty trained.
posted by 2shay at 1:20 PM on June 29, 2007


That kid's going to be a heroine addict by the time he's potty trained.

Yeah, nothing like being strung out on Buffy in preschool...

And as for the kid, this is going to haunt him the rest of his life...
posted by pupdog at 1:40 PM on June 29, 2007 [2 favorites]


That kid is going to hate his parents later on for having really crap taste in music.

But thank them for using SOAD's liner notes to teach him about the Armenian genocide. Most kids never learn that.

I actually love SOAD because the drummer is HAWT.
posted by ethnomethodologist at 1:56 PM on June 29, 2007


Shit (diaper) Sandwich.
posted by dbiedny at 2:13 PM on June 29, 2007


I think the kid's got a pretty good beat when his head's shaking.
posted by Viomeda at 2:26 PM on June 29, 2007


Sure, crank it up and let the kid headbang, but help him out with a few good shakes and they lock you up.
posted by davelog at 4:32 PM on June 29, 2007


The inherent problem with babies and rock music performance is that their minds don't yet comprehend that their dramatics should escalate proportionally as the energy of the piece builds. This critical error is spurned not in their relationship to a rock song or even an album but to their own mortality.

Simply put, the framework of their lives does not allow them to understand that life itself --especially as it is reflected in art-- is a long and complex journey, that its best and/or worst days are not necessarily the present. To truly master it, an individual --baby or not-- must anticipate that there will be tragedy and triumph beyond the scope of today. To a baby, their existence is like that of the mayfly: brief, removed from larger context, a raw immediate burst of energy and consumption.

So, in their artistic endeavors, it is both easy and common for babies to over exert themselves in the anticipation and release of the most initial poetic contrasts. As a piece waxes and matures, babies discover a more dynamic frontier that they are unable to interact with and thus enhance the experience for themselves and their audience.

Despite his glimmer of virtuosity, Reese --like all babies in the medium-- reveals his shallow interpretive consciousness as the piece wears on.

Someday, Reese will grow older, become more intimately entangled with his existence and develop a wider array of motor skills with which to interact with the world. At that time, he will look back at Reese's Concert Video and, yes, be embarrassed but not because of his terrible mechanics or his parents taste in music. Instead, his frustration will arise from the disconnect between what he thought his purpose was and what he will know it to be. And then, he will rock. Rock a good bye to being a baby.

Pitchfork Rating: 3.7
posted by pokermonk at 4:50 PM on June 29, 2007 [8 favorites]


Somebody needs to tell that kid that Jump Style is the hot music thing for performing babies these days.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 4:59 PM on June 29, 2007


Um, this was a major snoozefest. Anyone with kids surely went through a phase where the toddlers boogied with the music.
posted by ick at 5:23 PM on June 29, 2007


Is there even any point in me flagging this?
posted by poweredbybeard at 7:17 PM on June 29, 2007


(I liked this post til my own, hilarious, single-link-to-a-very-funny- photo post got deleted. Now I hate this post. And I hate you. All of you.)
posted by tristeza at 9:58 PM on June 29, 2007


Simply put, the framework of their lives does not allow them to understand that life itself --especially as it is reflected in art-- is a long and complex journey, that its best and/or worst days are not necessarily the present.

Of course, the simple conclusion to be drawn from this (and yet so complex in its ramifications) is that babies, so poorly equipped for rock, are perfectly suited for ambient.

Aware of little else than the memory of an all-encompassing sonic environment, being shattered by the expulsion from that place into a desolation of broken, stuttered sounds, how could they feel any different?

Look at the balding, slightly chubby folks who make ambient music. Look at their beatific smiles.

Think baby.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 10:14 PM on June 29, 2007


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