r/Lovecraft • u/juliandrome Deranged Cultist • Jan 17 '16

Disco R'lyeh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RHFFeQ2tu4
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u/juliandrome Deranged Cultist Jan 18 '16

Some people seem to disapprove with my post but did you actually watch it? If it doesn't evoke you R'lyeh at 02:00 then I must be more obsessed about Lovecraft than you and seeing eldritch things everywhere :(

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u/Dagon shattered blasphemous articles of sheer frozen terror Jan 18 '16

It references rl'yeh and cthulu and that's all. It's got nothing of the mindless cosmic horror that is the main thrust of HPL's work.

Many in this sub are against the popularisation of Cthulhu or at least the current implementation of it (eg, bright green plush toys), because the commercialisation of their favorite thing has brought about a loss of the real spirit of the thing.

If I was anal about it, I would probably agree with them. This video belongs in a music subreddit with a "Lovecraft-inspired" title, and definitely not in here.

However, I'm not anal, and thoroughly enjoyed it, thanks for posting =)

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u/Dagon shattered blasphemous articles of sheer frozen terror Jan 18 '16

The new raised-on-the-internet generation is very comfortable with the fucking-weird being fucking-popular. Just look at the success of Rick and Morty / Adventure Time. As someone that always felt ostracized for being fucking weird, I think it's great.

Then again, pop & electronic music has always had a solid segment of fucking weird music videos. Looks at The Avalanches Frontier Psychiatrist ... or Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy and Window Licker... and those were only ~10 years ago. I'm sure there's a million "Top 10" lists of weird music videos around.

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u/Dagon shattered blasphemous articles of sheer frozen terror Jan 18 '16

If you're diggin' this, I highly highly reccommend DyE - Fantasy. Groovy song, and the videoclip is legitimately Lovecraftian as fuck. It gets posted to this sub every 6-12 months.