{"id":84,"date":"2018-04-23T09:29:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-11\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2018-04-23T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T14:17:40","slug":"stop-making-sense","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-11\/stop-making-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Making Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stop Making Sense<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the studio overdubbing present in the original &#8220;Once in a Lifetime&#8221; is replaced with live backing from an extended band including Bernie Worrell, Steve Scales, and Alex Weir. \u00a0That keyboardist Jerry Harrison was able to recruit, among others, Parliament-Funkadelic&#8217;s Bernie Worrell demonstrates the artistic connections and funk heritage of Talking Heads and the new wave genre more generally. \u00a0Additionally, Byrne performs in a comically oversized suit, an artistic decision which he endeavors to explain in a special feature for the 1999 DVD re-release. His numerous reasons for wearing the suit include: emphasizing the body over the head (&#8220;because music is very physical and the body often understands it before the head&#8221;), making a somewhat obscure reference to costumes from the Noh theater in Japan, and supplementing his stage persona: &#8220;a Mr. White Man trapped in his inhibitions, etc.&#8221; (Demme, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stop Making Sense<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). \u00a0Byrne retains the jerky, sweaty, out-of-control choreography present in the original music video, furthering the narrative of moving mechanically, not fully consciously, through life. Together with his oversized suit, this appearance can be construed as a reflection of struggling with the pressures of modernity and business life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Talking Heads  - Once In A Lifetime (&quot;Stop Making Sense&quot; Version) - Hebrew Translation\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/shzbz_b0SzE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Stop Making Sense, the studio overdubbing present in the original &#8220;Once in a Lifetime&#8221; is replaced with live backing from an extended band including Bernie Worrell, Steve Scales, and Alex Weir. \u00a0That keyboardist Jerry Harrison was able to recruit, among others, Parliament-Funkadelic&#8217;s Bernie Worrell demonstrates the artistic connections and funk heritage of Talking Heads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3926,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}