SPCodex:Social media/Tonight, Tonight (music video)
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The original idea for the music video was for a Busby Berkeley-style video, complete with "people diving into champagne glasses". However, Red Hot Chili Peppers had just done a similar video for their song "Aeroplane", which was almost identical to what the Pumpkins had wanted to do. The second idea for the video was that as the band played on a surreal stage, the camera would go into audience members' eyes and the viewer would see that person's vision of the song. The third and final concept, inspired by Georges Méliès' silent film A Trip to the Moon, came from the directors, who got the idea for the video because the album cover for Mellon Collie reminded them of early silent films.
The production crew initially had problems locating costumes for the video because the movie Titanic was being shot at the same time in Los Angeles. James Cameron rented nearly every turn-of-the-century prop and costume in the city, leaving the "Tonight, Tonight" production crew little to work with. Directors compromised by renting the leftover costumes and hiring designers to remake them into the elaborate period clothing seen in the video. The video took three days to shoot.
The video, which debuted in May 1996, received heavy airplay on MTV and won six awards at the VMAs including Video of the Year. It was also nominated for Best Video, Short Form and Best Editing at the 39th Annual Grammys. It is to this day considered one of the greatest music videos of all time, ranking at number 40 on Stylus Magazine's list of the all-time top 100 music videos.
"Tonight, Tonight" performed well in the US as a single, peaking at #4 on the Mainstream Rock chart, #5 on Alternative Airplay chart, and at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100.
https://spcodex.wiki/Tonight,_TonightThe original idea for the music video was for a Busby Berkeley-style video, complete with "people diving into champagne glasses". However, Red Hot Chili Peppers had just done a similar video for their song "Aeroplane", which was almost identical to what the Pumpkins had wanted to do. The second idea for the video was that as the band played on a surreal stage, the camera would go into audience members' eyes and the viewer would see that person's vision of the song. The third and final concept, inspired by Georges Méliès' silent film A Trip to the Moon, came from the directors, who got the idea for the video because the album cover for Mellon Collie reminded them of early silent films.
The production crew initially had problems locating costumes for the video because the movie Titanic was being shot at the same time in Los Angeles. James Cameron rented nearly every turn-of-the-century prop and costume in the city, leaving the "Tonight, Tonight" production crew little to work with. Directors compromised by renting the leftover costumes and hiring designers to remake them into the elaborate period clothing seen in the video. The video took three days to shoot.
The video, which debuted in May 1996, received heavy airplay on MTV and won six awards at the VMAs including Video of the Year. It was also nominated for Best Video, Short Form and Best Editing at the 39th Annual Grammys. It is to this day considered one of the greatest music videos of all time, ranking at number 40 on Stylus Magazine's list of the all-time top 100 music videos.
"Tonight, Tonight" performed well in the US as a single, peaking at #4 on the Mainstream Rock chart, #5 on Alternative Airplay chart, and at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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