November 26th 2007
Sheryl Crow’s New Music Video Hits All The Right Notes
"Shine Over Babylon" a mosaic of issues
Filed under: music — michael @ 3:20 pm
As we’ve shown before on ‘razzi, it’s a fine line to walk as a musician when composing a song that addresses real-world issues. More often than not, such efforts result in a great message embodied in a crap song. Every now and again though…
Sheryl Crow has released a new music video for her latest tune Shine Over Babylon that will get you up to speed pretty quick on everything that’s wrong with the world. In an interesting twist, Crow makes her points by weaving an array of newspaper headlines from several years ago to as recent as last month. She covers everything from the Iraq war to climate change to the atrocities against monks in Burma.
It helps that the song is actually well done — in the traditional Sheryl Crow style — which may or may not be your cup of tea. Either way, it’s a bold and creative use of video that really compliments the song well. Have a look below.
[...] sexism and violence, it’s so refreshing to see an artist using their powers for good as Sheryl Crow has done here in her latest video “Shine Over [...]