Madame Butterfly was probably the strangest video I've ever seen...I understood some parts but was mostly saying "what the hell" (excuse my french) most of the time. I guessing this was some sort of love story that went horrible wrong? Apparently this sailor went around pretending to love all these women, spends a night with them to get them pregnant. He then goes back once the women once he thinks the babies are born and grown, then takes them for himself with his actual wife? Perhaps him and his wife couldn't have children of their own so this was the next best thing? This wouldn't've been as strange of a story if it weren't for some of the very very odd details. Not sure why the child had to stay attached to the umbilical chord...or why the mom had to be flung like a kite by it..or why she had to dismantle herself and then become a butterfly? Not sure if this is supposed to be some really messed up love cycle? The ONLY underlying life moral I could perhaps see from this is the cycle of abuse. Man pretends to love woman, turns out to have another life, woman becomes depressed but get's herself back out of it, then just finds another man and continues the same thing over again.
Regarding the Paradise cover, it seems to me that A Capella is becoming more popular with 1: the popularity of Pitch Perfect and 2: reality shows like The Sing Off. I am actually a big fan of one of the winners of that show, Pentatonix, who has also made A Capella popular. Even with the rise of technology for altering voices and sounds, there is still a market for very talented people, and I think the general public is really enjoying this, as sort of fresh air from the computer made sounds and voices of this century.
This is one of my favorite videos of theirs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPWPa-HMpj8
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