Talk:One (Metallica song)
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[edit] Description of the video = POV?
Like many metal videos, "One" puts a great deal of emphasis on the performance of the band members as musicians. However, unlike glam metal videos (such as Poison's "Nothing But A Good Time") Metallica's performance does not present their performance as a fantastic spectacle filled with bright colors, stage antics, and live excitement. Instead, the video features the band members in a presumably abandoned warehouse, in tight formation around Lars Ulrich's drum kit, as if in rehearsal. Moreover, the many shots of the guitarists' left hands playing chords or riffs and Ulrich's hands or feet playing various drum techniques all work to present Metallica (and by extension Metallica's version of metal) as real musicians.
This paragraph was removed by Arm as POV. I don't see the point for that. It's simply a description of the video. Yeah, the phrase "real musicians" is quite peacock and needs rewording, but deleting the whole paragraph seems a little bit excessive to me. (I'm simplily re-adding the first three sentences, until somebody finds a better way to express the last one.) --Army1987 17:31, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
- "It shows many shots of the guitarists' left hands playing chords or riffs and Ulrich's hands or feet playing various drum techniques." It sounds like a good compromise. --Army1987 17:36, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
My use of the phrase "real musicians" was not intended to be peacock. I'm the last person with any interest in blindly celebrating Metallica. Still, the notion that Metallica's music was made by "real musicians" was (and is) a very important part of the band's own marketing, and it plays a major role in their success with metal fans. The video for "One" highlights the importance of "musicianship" as a cultural concept, and in the context of '80s MTV metal videos it's quite different than "Nothin' But A Good Time". It's that difference that I was trying to explain in the original bit. --Pillsbur 16:51, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Two of the three versions of the One music video appear on 2 of One
(That's got to be one of the funniest things I've heard in awhile) I just cleaned up the article, added a lot of information and a infobox. Justice album cover and a shot from the music video are on there two.
[edit] Description of One played live
There is no need of saying that song is played one semitone down becaose since load all of the songs played live are tuned one semitone down MetalCro 23:54, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "One" a ballad?
Some idiot on "The Unforgiven" page called "One" a ballad. What think?
