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Before the intro we see the numbers 5...4...3 etc. like on old film reels. We then see the name of the band song and album in scrawled letters, and we can see the edges of the film. Throughout the rest of the video, the film has a bit of a scratchy quality, except the band themselves. As the intro starts we see the band walking down a crowded city street during the day, Billy in the lead (Think The Verve and "Bittersweet Symphony." That kind of shot) ("Everywhere you are is everywhere you've been") The band continues down the street. People are giving them weird looks This goes on for a little bit. We can see Billy singing and making exaggerated gestures. (Example: He punches when he says "Punching through your skin")They're sort of walking to the beat of the song. ("Anywhere you go, even to the stars") The camera points up to look at the sky, which is now filled with stars. The camera spins around making the stars spin. (" It matters what you do, But even if you've gone too far") The camera comes back down to the band, but now they are on an unpaved country road in sort of a picture-perfect surrealism. (Like out of a painting) We get shots of all the band members, but otherwise they're doing pretty much the same thing as before. ("Everywhere you are, Every single shock") As Billy screams out the word "shock" lightning streaks from the sky behind the group, still walking. When it hits the ground, the landscape sort of fizzles out to sort of a highly distored, colorful static, like the film is warped. The band continues unaffected and unfazed. ("Anywhere you go, even to the stars") The camera once again pans upward, this time the screen sort of blurs white, like we're looking at the sun, then it comes back down. Now they're walking on the ocean. We can see fish swimming under the water below their feet. (The Part with the effects) As the vocals get distorted, the image of the band does too. The images sort of blur and get bent out of shape as they move, but they're still walking and singing. ("Everywhere you are") When the vocals return to normal (and the images of the band do too) we're still getting a frontal shot, but we can see that they are approaching a beach because we are seeing surfers and waders in the water. As they walk across the beach away from the ocean there is a sandcastle in their way. Instead of smashing it to bits, however, they go right through it like ghosts. ("Your love must always be true") After crossing the beach, the band enters a coastal city. They turn a corner and end up on the same street they were on in the first shot, still walking, still a frontal shot. When he says "Even to the stars" we get another shot of the sun, but it returns to the street this time. ("You can never lose me") The band simply walks off the edge of the film, onto a plain white background. When the first screaming "Everywhere you are" comes along we instead get a headshot of one of the other band members singing it. Back to Billy for the normal voiced line. Back to another member of the band for the screaming line, and so on. As the final strains fade out, the band turns to static and fades out with them and the background fades to black and cuts off. By - "Phaen" phaen@geocities.com Guitars come sweeping in.........as the screen goes from a deep black through a static fuzz and into a television set with channels flipping rapidly....the channel stops at a station that looks remarkably a lot like MTV. The camera slowly moves out of the screen and away from the set..."Everywhere you are is everywhere you've been".......as the TV comes into a setting that is of the typical teenagers bedroom. Posters hang on the walls of the Pumpkins.......posters like the Tonight, Tonight scene and such are hanging, but are badly frayed and in many cases close to falling off the walls. On the TV screen is a video from one of the teeny bop bands playing a live concert in front of thousands of screaming fans. As the camera turns away from the TV, Billy shouts "just lost to the beat punching through your skin" as the camera twirls past a poster on the wall of the Pumpkins playing a live concert. As the camera continues it's spin, the other walls of the bedroom reveal newer, framed posters of the teeny bop bands as the camera focuses on two teenagers sitting in a love seat in front of the TV. "You don't know what to do, but still you want to crawl" Billy sings as the camera drops to the floor, panning over a wasteland of trash, candy wrappers, and thrown about CD's, mostly of the Pumpkins variety as Billy sings "all thru the broken glass...that's everywhere you are". The camera backs back into the TV and spins in the opposite direction to a scene of the band walking through the streets of New York City and right through Times Square and past the Virgin Store and the MTV Studios. The camera is following from behind...Billy in is typical black garb, James in a Gray suit, Melissa in a red dress, and Jimmy in jeans and a black T-shirt. "your love must always be true" as Billy glances at the Virgin Store, "your love must always be you" as he glances back at the MTV studios. The camera quickly backs away from the group as the screen shot dissolves into the video currently being played on MTV...you can make out figures dancing around on the stage and thousands of people in the arena dancing, jumping, and yelling. "everywhere you are.....anywhere you go" as the camera shoots back out of the TV and turns towards the Pumpkins poster of the live concert. The camera enters the poster as you can make out the band playing on the stage as lights shoot about. "Even if you're starved" Billy sings as the camera looks out upon an audience of young teens dressed in the typical early 1990's style...all of whom have their backs turned to the stage, staring at the stadiums big screen TV that is showing nothing but a bright white picture. "It matter what you do, but even if you've gone too far" Billy wails as the camera shoots out over the audience and into the white picture. The camera spins around and the Pumpkins appear, walking through a vast open field with no one and nothing around them. "You can follow you, everywhere you are" Billy sings as the band looks either side to side or downwards, but never straight towards the camera. The camera races towards Billy and seems to enter his mind as he sings "and in your mind, you were alone all this time" as an image of what Billy would see as he played to the crowd with its back turned towards the band appears and begins to spin, slowly at first and then speeding up. Images begin to flash rapidly of the band walking through America....scenes in Cities, towns, malls, you name it.......they mesh together...making a continuous movie....as the band walks through them. The band looks at the people they pass, but nobody pays any attention. During this clip Billy sings "with everything you were, and every smile you wore, still locked in your heart, everywhere you are, every where you are." "every single chard" Billy sings as the camera backs up and passes thru Billy, returning to the live concert. "Everywhere you are, you're never too far" plays as people begin to turn from the giant white screen and begin to watch the band play. The camera captures the Pumpkins playing heavily....intensely focused on the music. "Cause anywhere you'd go" is sung as the white screen flickers into a love shot of the band playing in the stadium. The people in the crowd that had not turned begin to spin as those who had are beginning to hop and move to the music. "Even to the stars" Billy sings as the camera turns upwards, showing the dim lights of the arena.....looking like stars. " All you have to do, is play the part of who you are" is sung as the camera flips and shows a view from behind the band playing in front of the arena...fans hopping, moving, and smiling with their arms in the air. "the rest is up to you" is played as the camera again seems to enter inside of Billy. "phase unwound, by yourself, atom bomb, on the shelf unsung" is blurted in its distorted way as a view of Billy writing songs in nearly entire darkness is shown. "Pause of light, pulse of light, new face dawns" is sung as the camera seems to zoom into the lyrics that Billy has been writing. The following scene emerges as if the camera was coming out of the ink. Again, a shot of the Pumpkins walking thru a variety of settings begins to flash..this time they are from all over the world. Thru the scenes, Billy is actually singing....... "everywhere you are, and everywhere you go, even if your down (Billy looks down at his feet as he kicks a newspaper that has a review of the Machina album on its cover), even if your low (as the camera shoots back to a frontal shot of the band), the thought of you, it's in the eyes of all (people begin to recognize the band and it is becoming nearly impossible for them to walk side by side), astride a storied past, that's everywhere you are" The scenes are continually played as the song progresses further..."Your love must always be true, your love must always be you, everywhere you are, and anywhere you go, even if your scarred (as the Camera focuses up on Billy's eyes), it's all a part of you (as the camera turns away from Billy and looks out upon the thousands of people mobbing around the band and then quickly backs up...the band disappears into a sea of white as the giant white screen from before appears and over the audience and out through the teeny bop video goes the camera and out of the TV set and onto the floor, where it turns around...showing the feet of the teens from before), but ever should you put it down (sung while the camera sails over the tossed about Pumpkin's CDs amongst all of the junk on the floor), you can never lose me (sung as the camera seems to rest between the two teens heads, focused upon the TV set. On the screen is a bright flash of light and the image of the band walking forwards is shown. As the numerous "everywhere you are" are sung, the band gets closer and closer. At the end of the video, the band walks right thru the TV screen, they climb over and around the teens, and walk out the bedroom door. As the video fades, the camera captures the room with the two teens looking towards the bedroom door in absolute shock...with the wall of falling pumpkins posters behind them. The music and video ends as the poster of the live pumpkins concert falls to the floor.....but the image on it has changed from the initial view to the image of the Pumpkins playing in front of their recaptured fans from before. By Matt Renauld : mrrbluelion@hotmail.com |
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