[Fanvid] A Certain Kind Of Dirty | Claws
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jinkyoDesna and her girls (and the Dixie Mafia…. and the Russians.)
CON.TXT 2020 Premiere
Notes: Quick cuts, blood, violence
Music: Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
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Creator Notes: I started watching Claws years ago as a summer lark. I was initially impressed by the real life diversity of the cast, not the usual 'stick a brown best friend in and call it a day' but a reflection of the real world and real people that I live with. Well, not the drug running, money laundering, mafia parts, I don't know anything about that, but the rest was all familiar. And as it happened, the show was good! It's streaming on Hulu in the USA so if you want something fun for a bit of an escape, I highly recommend it.
This vid started out as a dance show video. The whole idea is based on the line "This shit is bananas". Yes, there are some other great story lines in the show, particularly Desna and her autistic brother, Dean and Quiet Ann's courting her policewoman love, but the show is such a technicolor Florida swamp mess that BANANAS is the only way to describe it.
The first hurdle was this: Hollaback Girl is a banger, but it's very repetitious. The lyrics aren't all that inspired and musically, it's a one-hook wonder. Editing the music turned out to be as much fun as cutting the vid. I went through a few versions of including lyrics before deciding to just go with the parts of the song everyone knows. This made for a shorter vid. The title screen is a bit wonky; with a bit more time I probably could have come up with a different solution, but in the end I embraced the bananas theme and left it as is, and on the whole, love this crazy little vid!
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