This Strange Relationship
This Strange Relationship is a Vlog that features two women singing on stage about their relationship. The camera stays at the same angle the whole time and does not move. I found this to be a bit amateur and would have like to see a close up or two of the women faces. A profile would have also been nice and added to the Vlog. But I can understand that this Vlog was probably not about the camera work and more about the content of the song. I found this Vlog on Vidlicious: Female Vlog Collective. I really did not think it would be too terribly difficult to find a Vlog with some meat to it that I could analyze, that is until I started looking. Then, after following the Vidlicious: Female Vlog Collective link, I found quite a few Vlogs with some deep content in them. One was about a women who was abused as a child and there were many more. Then I can upon This Strange Relationship and it intrigued me.
This Strange Relationship on many levels showed the difference of the two women. On the surface level you could see that they were of two different races, dressed differently, and even preformed differently. The woman on the left, I believe her name is Bob, used poetry as her instrument, while the woman on the right, I believe her name is Toshi, used a guitar. Toshi has a beautiful, and in tune, voice that carries very well with the guitar. Bob on the other hand has a low voice that speaks more than sings. At first the duet is a bit awkward because of the difference in voice, but towards the middle and then in the end they some how meshed together and put out a unique and wonderful sound. I think if you look at the two voices this way, it is very symbolic of the song. The song's content is about how their relationship is so strange, but yet it works for them. They care about each other’s feelings and comment on their actions that are an outcome of their feelings. The line that jumped out at me the most is when Bob says "Isn't it a shame that this ant the movies? Then you could write my every line." This jumped out at me because I have been thinking a lot about women in the movies and what sort of women are depicted and how the are depicted. Then I was trying to imagine their story and was thinking that their story would probably never be written into a Hollywood script. Hollywood does not want real women, they want women that they can control and manipulate. Lets say that their song was made into a Hollywood film, it would probably start out will Halley Berry running on the beach in a swimsuit and then she would trips\ over a poor white woman played by Gwyneth Paltrow and then Berry would take Paltrow in and they would fall in love and then they cut to the scene with them having sex. I guess that is a little bias. To conclude, I enjoyed this Vlog because it was two women singing about their relationship in a very different way, laughing, smiling, and showing that they truly cared for one another.
To watch this Vlog (I hope!) This Strange Relationship