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Link to the video: Her Morning Elegance – Oren Lavie

Lyrics

Oh my! What an absolutely stunning music video. Sheer brilliance in its execution. I loved this, if you couldn’t tell already. The whole video is stop-motion and visually portrays a… daydream/dream for want of a better word. The creativity that put this together is, well, if I had the money, I’d so hire everyone involved, just to keep them on staff to cater to my whims .

Possible concerns: Overall, it’s a really cute, sweet video, but there may be a few things parents may want to consider. For those who are sensitive to the issue, the whole video shows a woman in her bed; she is fully clothed in pyjamas at all times. Several times, a man does join her, and there is a very sweet moment of cuddling – but there isn’t anything sexual about the video at all. Just wanted to point out that there is a woman in a bed, the covers come off, she is clothed, a man joins her, and she’s not wearing a wedding ring. Not an issue for me… but could be for some. There are two situations that might concern  sensitive children: at one point she looks like she’s falling, and then she finds herself “underwater.” My step-son when he saw this asked “But she can still breathe, right?” – a testiment to how you get pulled in to the illusion. In the lyrics, there is a line that is repeated: “And she fights for her life” – admittedly, I was too taken by the video itself and didn’t know what the song said until I looked up the lyrics.

As always, remember this is a Youtube site. Since most of the videos seem to come from Youtube, I decided to make a Youtube page to point to how you can make the video full-screen.

At the end of the video, there is the normal rotation of suggested videos, but noticed that on this one in particular there was one with the title ‘Hey Everyone She S**t Her Pants!” which is also found down the right hand side under “Related Videos.”

Length: 3:36

Would I let my son watch? Already have.

Extra info: Oren Lavie has a Myspace page and has a blog post about the making of this video