Powerpoint Pop

[Splush]

Those of you familiar with pop-culture history might remember the days before the modern pop promo video (of which the first recorded example is generally agreed to be Beyonce's Crazy in Love), when MTV only had three different channels, and each of them presented new popular music 24 hours a day through the tried and tested medium of Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.

Who could forget this primitive but moving chorus slide from this classic Commodores presentation?

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/userfiles/Image/powerpoint/lady.png (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/userfiles/Image/powerpoint/ladybig.png)

Over the years the medium became increasingly sophisticated, often offering insight beyond the content of the lyrics, such as in the Spice Girls' famous Wannabe presentation. Of course, this presentation is famed for being is the first - and still the best - example of Venn diagram use in a pop presentation:

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/userfiles/Image/powerpoint/wannabe1.png (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/userfiles/Image/powerpoint/wannabe1big.png)
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/userfiles/Image/powerpoint/wannabe2.png (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/userfiles/Image/powerpoint/wannabe2big.png)

While the artform has largely been replaced by the vulgar new medium of the pop video, some daring artists continue to present their work in presentation format, recognising the true heritage of pop music promotion, and the simple beauty of the PowerPoint platform. Shown here, one of the more significant of recent efforts, the work of Snoop Dogg - one of the true auteurs of the modern PowerPointPop movement.

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/userfiles/Image/powerpoint/drop1.png (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/userfiles/Image/powerpoint/drop1big.png)
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/userfiles/Image/powerpoint/drop2.png (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/userfiles/Image/powerpoint/drop2big.png)

I encourage my fellow pop-culture history fans to use this thread to share their fondest memories of PowerPoint presentation promos from days gone by.

[sack the chimp]

Brilliant!

Reminds me of this (http://www.livejournal.com/users/qwantz/28155.html)....but with a nice new twist.

[glitch]

I read that whole first post and took in about three words.

Maybe I just have no clue what you're on about. Or I'm just tired.

[LeoZ]

hmm

http://www.leo-stuff.com/sclub.gif

(rated 5)

[the last sheika]

That's all hilarious. Especially the party bar chart one...

[sack the chimp]

I'm loving the Venn diagram :D

The world needs more comedy Venn diagrams.

[catinabox]

Good up to now, I have a good idea for a Franz Ferdinand one, I'm not sure whether to post it or not.

[Nocashvalue]

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/979/yesterday2dc.jpg

[stalefish]

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/302/franzfredinandflowchart9lh.png (http://imageshack.us)

I They messed up the size a bit, but here's the old school method, faithfully recreated by Franz Ferdinand.

[catinabox]

Here's my favourite by Franz:
http://img342.imageshack.us/img342/7569/franzpower1dj.gif
It's not very good, and sorry about the size.

[Splush]

I think we all remember when the chaps from Bad Boy records made this shocking socioeconomic discovery:

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/userfiles/Image/powerpoint/moneyproblems.png

[GorillaBearBear]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/tomnash/babycakes.jpg
In my humble opinion, perhaps the high point of the Powerpoint Pop Video revival of circa 2004 was this slide, which stated clearly and with visual aids what the artist was trying to say, whilst also providing some other information which leads well into the next slide. I have not presented the second slide here, but it was also a Triumph, combining all the elemens of the previous slide into one easy to digest package telling us not only how the artist thought there love would grow, how the recipient of the song did not understand how little they knew how the artist liked it down low, but extending the information to a warning that the relationship must be taken one step at a time because the recipient did not own the artist.

[Mat^]

I'll give it a go...

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/3214/gunsdontkill4le.png

[Eccles]

Of course no musical form is more oblique that the Progressive Rock Concept Album, and here the use of powerpoint comes into it's own to explain the multi-layered meaning hidden by pretentious lyrics.

Here is a typical example, taken from a presentation that lasted 19 hours from start to finish.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrewbennett/wall.jpg

[gxfu]

Your Snoop Dogg powerpoint had me roffling.
I love you.

[Al]

You must spread the love before rogering Eccles again :(

This thread does liver.

[freddiestarfish]

I've used the word so many times it's become meaningless.

Although I am rather drunk.


http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/2842/techno2gg.jpg

[Myself]

I remember seeing these being shown on the BBC. Back when TOTP was just the late great John Peel, the dancing girls, and a PC.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/Myselfpictures/Slide1.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/Myselfpictures/Inter-speciescomparison.jpg

[Shave]

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2610/videokilled4yx.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Splush]

Such high levels of legitimacy that quitting will not be regarded as a viable option!

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/userfiles/Image/powerpoint/hammertime.jpg

[DoctorDoggie]

In the late 1990's, even after the video form was well established as the norm in terms of expressing popular music in a visual manner, megamix bands like MC Jive Bunny often had to revert to older, simpler and cheaper methods of selling product. However, it did give the Bunmeister the opportunity to counterpoint very different artists and reconcile them in a meaningful, and striking way.

Take this example:

http://www.doggieville.co.uk/scans/fire.jpg

Using this method, not only did he manage to express Billy Joel's position on who may or may not have started the fire, he also extrapolates that The Prodigy took a contrary position. And in a very twisted way to boot.

[Bewildebeast]

http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/5989/madge4cb.png (http://imageshack.us)

[weebl]

this thread must not die!

[Myself]

this thread must not die!

Yes boss, here you go:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/Myselfpictures/BenefitsofFLASH.jpg

Edit: And heres another one.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/Myselfpictures/Summaryofthelast7days.jpg

[Liz]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a93/wllsek01/1seanpaulgetbusy.jpg
:/

[[murray]]

http://cheesefarm.co.uk/uploaded/GLCPP.png

My effort. I have another planned.

[Myself]

I'll give it a go...

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/3214/gunsdontkill4le.png

I beleive one of these is the European version, and the other the American

[Eccles]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrewbennett/boc.gif

[[murray]]

Oops, missed mat's post! GLC were trying to break America and in doing so, redid the powerpoint in order to make the statistics more obvious to those who were unaware. Anyway...much inspired by the other seven days one...

http://cheesefarm.co.uk/uploaded/CDPP.png

Craig David, always an experimental chap, took a slight slant on the idea back in 2001 with the Powerpoint/memo crossover style. Unfortunately it has yet to take off outside the R&B genre, where it maintains a large underground following.

[Myself]

']Craig David, always an experimental chap, took a slight slant on the idea back in 2001 with the Powerpoint/memo crossover style. Unfortunately it has yet to take off outside the R&B genre, where it maintains a large underground following.

RnB has many fine examples. I have fond memories of the following:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/Myselfpictures/Partypeople.jpg

[albie_123]

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b198/albie_123/Whatislove-PP.png

[Myself]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/Myselfpictures/Results.jpg

[queenofself]

coldplay's return to the outdated but still much loved format in 2000 was unexpected to say the least but they can thank it for their present status as international music jetsetters

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/7229/yellow9cd.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

their new minimalist* take on the format was thought to compliment their style



*read as my first attempt at these highly confusing powerpoint shennanigans

[Horse]

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3105/presentation12wl.jpg

[esquilax]

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y234/xCultureSlut/everyday.jpg

[Eccles]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrewbennett/ppp4.jpg

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrewbennett/ppp3.jpg

[Myself]

Let us not forget where the powerpoint music video has its origin, in the safety signs of the 50s:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/Myselfpictures/danger.jpg

And the various homages to this period, such as:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/Myselfpictures/tsunami.jpg

[Handwashed Pug]

I for one, fondly remember Bill Withers extremley convincing theories on global warming in the early seventies:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y291/Interrowashed/climates.jpg

[dead]

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/6583/powerpoint9et.png
plussage to the first person who can tell me the song it's from.....

[BigShimmeryWall]

As well as being punk pioneers, the Ramones were also known for including public service messages in their presentations, often informing the population about potential threats to their safety long before the government.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/bigshimmerywall/Presentation1.png

[SonOfKong]

(after checking REM albums) Texarkana, dead.
What an odd sentence.
Anyhoo, you've given me a good idea for one. I'll be back soon.