Last year, I found a blogger (who I still religiously follow) who described one of the types of music she likes as "Men who sound like they might start crying at any moment." Henson is one of those men.
His song, 'You Don't Know How Lucky You Are' has brought me to tears on numerous occasions. This blog title is actually a lyric from the song. His music videos are what get me, though. In the music video for the previously mentioned song, the entire video is just a woman dressed as a pioneer in a field/valley holding back from crying. From one angle. Slowly panning out, so that by the end of the video, you're only out to about from her head to waist. Now, this reminds me of FOT/PHOT, which we learned about last year. For newbies, FOT stands for "Freaking Obnoxious Thing". I'm obviously paraphrasing. And PHOT is an even more obnoxious way to think about it. In the end, it's anything that is so pretentious while making no sense that it kills you inside. But. Me being me, I can pull a symbol out of anything, even if it's a stretch.
So in the end, I love the video.
Another song of his, 'Small Hands', has an actually beautiful music video. It's an animated/claymation/puppet video (I'm not quite sure which), focusing on the story of a small forest. There's a pair of owls, a pair of rabbits, and a pair of frogs. Throughout the video, a member of each pair is killed, and then you have to watch the ones remaining live on. The rabbit is the one that gets me. The rabbits start out sleeping in their den. A fox comes in, and eats one. The rest of the video, you see the lone rabbit shivering in it's sleep and finally, it isn't in the den any longer.
I have never felt such a close relationship to a puppet. It both puzzles me and amazes me how well the emotions were conveyed in the video. I highly recommend it. I highly recommend Keaton Henson, as well.
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