10 days of YYC’s favorite videos: Day 9

What’s more fun than kids shooting zombies? Kids teaching zombies to dance then shooting them with cardboard guns to a catchy little pop song. 

What makes this a really great music video is that it is just plain fun. They take a lot of popular elements like zombies, kids being heroes, a grindhouse aesthetic, and dancing and combine them into one fantastic adventure that’s hard to turn away from. It tells a story that sucks you in immediately. It’s familiar enough in content that you can almost imagine being there as a kid and fighting the zombies yourself. And if you’re like me, you’ll actually find the living dead a bit scary. I have reoccurring nightmares about zombies by the way.

There isn’t anything deep or uber meaningful here, but sometimes we just want to be entertained and have some fun. I think the band/ director took into account the song, the sound, and the bands personality and made a great choice. Keep it light, keep it fun, keep it awesome, and above all, keep it moving. 

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