So, what book was this buffet of romance based on? Or, better, how many books?! Total and epic win to the folks at Fandom lounge who said, “OMG WTF MUST SEND TO Smart Bitches.” HA! WIN!
Thanks to InnocentSmith, who also sent me the much higher-res link should you wish to see the high quality version.
You really should watch the high-res version to appreciate what lyrangalia wrote: “I feel like I need an explanation as to why the entire Romance aisle of the bookstore just came alive and [tried] to eat me.”
She also suggests a drinking game “where you take a shot every time a romance novel cover is recreated.” If I did that, I’d be comatose.
Hey, I liked it. Not the music, but some of the scenery was pretty awe-inspiring. And why limit yourself to one time-period, when you can incorporate them all. he he
Did somebody mention Mists of Avalon yet? But yeah, I liked the comment that said it was all J. Lindsey’s books rolled into one. That definitely fits, grin.
Should we email him to ask for the inspiration? What a way to start the day. 🙂
My friend Mere sent this to me about a week ago raving about the ADD-ness of it all. “It’s like BAM! Pirate ship! Sleigh ride! Alligators! Stonehenge! All presented without any context to one another! It’s awesome!”
Thirtygirl: In the scene where he was swinging away from the pirate ship, MY gut reaction was “What the hell is that rope supposed to be attached to?”
Oh THANK YOU. I just laughed so hard I scared my dogs. Oh – oh – oh. Indeed there MUST be mermaids. Oh. Oh. Oh.
Wow that guy is not even close to Kenny Loggins talent wise but he has that same cheesy aftertaste.
You know the economy is bad when he was able to hire the whole Lord of The Rings special effects department for pennies on the dollar.
Nah, it was the trailer for her new book, Pirate Lords of the Matrix Rings of China’s Russian Prince. Because that pirate ship looked decidedly junk-like to me.
Hee, TeddyPig, I was thinking that he must have come across the warehouse of leftover LOTR special effects, and taken advantage of New Zealands withdrawal loneliness.
result49: What is the result when you mush together 49 different romance themes? Shine!
I’m interviewing this guy! I’m utterly fascinated by him. (I think I’m hypnotized by his hair fluttering in the wind machine.)
GrowlyCub, I was thinking Mists of Avalon too! And then they transformed into some sort of Charlie’s Angels assassins.
Did anyone else think the red head looked a lot like Giselle from Enchanted?
OMG ON SECOND VIEWING I TOTALLY THINK I HAVE IT.
THEY ARE TWIN BROTHERS. ONE GOOD, ONE EVIL. IT IS THE ONLY WAY THIS WORKS.
Maybe it’s my non-romance-reader bias, but I thought there was a pretty good split between romance and Extruded Fantasy Product cover art going on there.
If someone could edit him out of the video, it would totally work.
(He bounces on a walking horse, what kind of a knight bounces on a walking horse????)
And the facial hair was vomitastic, particularly when he was grimacing (was that supposed to be a smile?) while holding hands or sitting next to the poor girl.
I keep looking at those standing stones up there and thinking of Claire Randall. What a different series THAT would have been if she had touched those particular rocks.
Although, I guess, there are SOME similarities—witches, horseback riding, a sea voyage, fire, capes. I guess I always kind of imagined Jamie Fraser as being not quite so … ridiculous.
Please step away from the stones, Claire.
We actually used to listen to shit like this in the 80’s – sans period costumes. Unless Adam Ant’s pirate costume qualifies.
Actually, I think it does. I’m so ashamed.
LA Times interviews Chris Dane Owens earlier this week.
Hope the linky magic works.
Lestat’s band is way less hardcore than Anne Rice led me to believe. Nah, it was the trailer for her new book, Pirate Lords of the Matrix Rings of China’s Russian Prince. Snork.
This was quite… wonderful. Thanks all for clarifying that the intermittent mustache wasn’t a blip on my screen. But are you saying this WASN’T an 80s band?!?
“feel14” Yes, that did make me feel 14 again 🙂
Ok, that right there is when I almost spit my muffin at my computer. Well played, Ms. Armintrout. Well played, indeed.
From the LA Times interview:
Well darn, not a single romance novel named, but he had romance in the tags, so it’s all good, grin.
The mustache is alllllll Wesley, from The Princess Bride!
Well hell.
Thank you karmelrio
It’s so simple once you read the LA Times article: He (the character, I think, maybe the singer) was ‘touched by the Hand of God’ and (either he the creator of the video/or he, the character, I’m not sure, I got bored) had an epiphany.
Huh.
*gapes*
Seriously. Wat?
I cannot get over how amazing this is. I has officially made my life complete. I no longer need material possessions or food or a job, just this video…
OMG OMG. I was two minutes into the video before I realized that the reason I was tearing up was because I’d been holding my breath while watching at work in order to refrain from making Teh. Noise.
You know the one. The “OMGWTFBBQ everyone come see this quick before I’m fired!!” noise.
Oh, yeah. That went down like smooov buttah.
God, I need more caffeine.
o_0
Oh dear lord…
It’s like a hermaphroditic Fabio sings Rick Astley. *shudders* According to the linked article, there’s a forthcoming album full of this stuff in production…
I was thinking CL Wilson while viewing the beginning. I thought the Tairen’s were going to come out or something… Couldn’t finish it though, will need to view once I’m home.
A response to when *cough* someone posted the video link on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/RyanDeschamps/status/1054177128
What I said to my husband while watching:
“It’s like David Bowie and Prince had a love child!”
Bloody hell. Bloody, bloody hell.
But – no Regency card game? Or did I blink and miss it?
Oh. My. God.
I have been without power almost all day and I sign in to view this??
What is very sad is that the Pirate ship, Ice castle, dragons, mermaid, witches and ghostly goddes are all in a fantasy series whose name escapes me- but I think the hero’s name was Garrion. I must go find them when I am done packing and can get near the books.
Sadly, it’s a really good series.
Unlike the video.
I join you in shame- I was totally thinking Adam Ant.
You want to know shame? I totally went to an Adam Ant show a few years ago. Still hot.
I obviously need to read more historical romance, ‘cause I got just about nothing but snarfles out of that.
Upon second viewing, I still don’t know what to make of it but to say that nothing I remember from the 80’s was this cheesy.
I kinda half expected the Amazing Disappearing Moustache and Soul Patch to end up stuck to the girl’s face after one of the clinches. Now THAT would have been entertainment!
Okay, I confess. I’m kind of a sap for (some of) the individual images, even though they don’t make sense together in any way—they remind me of some scenes in my most recently completed ms.
My husband, however, says, “The only thing it’s missing is a kitty that says, ‘I poop rainbows.’”
Split decision. Like the LAT blog article says, it’s either the best or the worst. But it’s sure as hell getting him lots of attention. Even on SmartBitches.
Wish I’d made it…
paid67. Hmm. Cost of video, in millions? The did redact it in the article.
I don’t know, but there’s just something kinda off-putting to me about a romance hero wearing pink lipstick.
Was that the guy from Princess Bride?
80’s cheeze at its best! We are having a 60s and 80s music revival woot!
I just frantically typed a barely coherent e-mail to my sister linking this. Looking in my ‘sent’ folder, I appear to have written:
“LEGOLAS AND FABIO HAVE A LOVE-CHILD WHO IS BORN AND RAISED IN THE ROMANCE SECTION OF A USED BOOKSTORE AND THEN SOMEHOW BECOMES A NINETEEN-EIGHTIES POPSTAR IN 2008! With pirates and I think ninja witches in pleather catsuits for some reason!”
My sister may begin to worry for my state of mind.
All it needed was a few wolves and it could have been the thousands of pages (but still unfinished) George R. R. Martin’s SONG OF FIRE AND ICE.
ev I think you mean the Belgariad by David Eddings? If so I agree, sounds cheesy when you put it that way but excellent series. Folllowed up by the Mallorean and joined by a couple of side books. I sucked them all up like melted chocolate.
But wait, there’s more! The world in this video is “Arra of the 3rd Kingdom.” It’s going to be a manga series.
You can find a promo video that has some of the same images as in the (much) longer music video here. The soundtrack sounds vaguely familiar, but I can’t place it.
The two things that were uppermost in my mind while watching this:
This is the Sam’s Club economy-sized block of Velveeta cheese.
and
Did the heroine get drugged along the way? Is she narcoleptic? Under a spell that keeps her on the edge of unconsciousness? I’ve never seen such a somnolent expression on someone being chased by dragons, witches, pirates, and bad facial hair. Oh, and that was definitely Elric on guitar.