SoulMonster

The consideration on who would sing on his record likely took place in the second half of 2008 while recording of vocals seems to have happened mostly in the first half of 2009. By then the final legal battle between Slash and Axl had just ended (it was dismissed in August 2008) and maybe Slash was ready to normalize relations with Axl, or maybe he was bitter about the legal wranglings, who knows. Regardless, Axl was definitely still not entirely over it in late 2008: And positively opposed to Slash in early 2009: So yeah, I don't think Slash seriously considered reaching out to Axl and ask him to sing on his record in this period - referring to wanting the record out "in this millenium" was just a little jab at Axl.

That's NOT you!?!?

Fanatical? You're talking about the guy who posted about 10 times about how bad the video is and topped it with a video where he sings about how much he hates it? Or has anyone positive to the song come near that kind of behavior? The way I see it, those who like the song/video are pretty chill about liking it, some of those who don't are really weird about it, like they take it personally and get really emotional.

He just released The General and few here predicted it would sound like this

Ah, right. Yeah, that is weird.

I have no qualms about that. I will reach out and talk to whomever if I am curious about something. I don't see the problem.

If they are new, they have certainly built up a nice customer portfolio in a short time: Creative Works London - We Work With..

I can't remember if you were the one steadfastly claiming Midjourney was used, it wasn't: Dan Potter: "I didn’t use Midjourney. I used Stable Diffusion to build the animations. it all started with conversations, ideas, written treatments, and sketches and drawings. And then fed these into the software, and then bought the renders into After Effect to edit further."

I am sort of surprised that so many seem to almost loath The General, the song. I mean, clipping issues and poor mix aside and too late and not living up to expectations and all that, valid or not, to me it is still a decent rocking song. The chorus is very classic Guns to me, with driving power chords under a belting Axl. Axl even puts in some really fierce attack into the, "ones who understand". People always mention the bridge in Monsters, well, you have the same anger in that line in the General chorus. And the drums are great.

I don't think it is meant to be a story. More a collection of themes. It is not unlikely Axl didn't want the story behind the lyrics to The General to be depicted as a story, either. In my interpretation, the video explores topics of isolation, decay, monsters, change/transition and innocence. All relevant to, if not the lyrics directly, so to the themes explored in the lyrics.

Okay, cool. I will probably get to that interview later. Still trawling through interviews from March 2018, it is slow work cuz I have to transcribe so many of them (thank you very much, Brando and Sid!)

Uhhm, he talks a lot about the cold water so I am not sure. JANUARY 17, 1994: THE SINGLE ESTRANGED IS RELEASED

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You'd be surprised how many here struggle with this.

It's about as cool as when Slash ascended from the ocean in the Estranged video.

I don't think anyone here is arguing that the November Rain video isn't well-known or iconic It is still possible on a personal level to think it is shit, though. You know, this tricky difference between what other people think and what you think, and the difference between something being well-known (like Hitler) and being well-liked.

Again, I'm so sorry. If you are right, and this is due to her depressions, then obviously getting treatment for that could be the solution. I hope today's counseling session goes well. best of luck, and if it fails, the sun will shine again at some point. Just hang in there.

Ah, gotcha. So you're are saying that the company Creative Works London, a major design firm with customers ranging from Aerosmith to Coca Cola, was paid to design a music video for Guns N' Roses, likely with a substantial budget, but couldn't afford the most expensive Midjourney subscription which is like, what, $120/month?

What is "better" is a subjective thing. People might not agree that this is "SO MUCH BETTER" as you think. Personally, trying to make it more realistic, like in your rendering above, is a worse choice because it still looks very much off and I don't find that appealing - like when you try to do something but fail. It still becomes cartoonish. In design, not much is worse than trying to go the hyper realistic route and then failing miserably. I am sure it was a stylistic choice by the designers. You are arguing as if they tried, or should have tried, to make it more photo realistic and failed to do so. You can dislike that decision and argue that your style is better, but again, that is just your subjective preference. And if they used Midjourney, as someone claimed them have in this thread, they could of course have created the graphics in the same style as your render. But they chose not to. Instead they wanted to go with a more cartoonish style, more anime inspired.

Ah, you got some beef with them? That explains a lot Anyway, I don't really get why that hydraulic leg with a shoe transition, or whatever it is that you refer to as "wall leg", is like the worst thing in the video to you. There are all kinds of weird transitions all over. Some probably artifacts of AI and some deliberate (like the decay transitions, balloons to skulls, decomposing bodies, age decay on the bear).

Nope, never said I did. I just wanted to comment on your flawed argumentation.

Haha, thanks for your concern. No, I doubt I have suddenly lost the ability to read or follow a conversation - unless it is early onset dementia I have read it all, and first off: No need for you to get so worked up over this, no one is out to get you, no need to get so emotional. Let's step back to "dead medium". If you were to take this literally, as in there being virtually no more music videos, your strategy of pointing to one or a few would successfully refute that statement. But with just a little bit of goodwill from your side you would agree that this wasn't meant literally, I am sure, but as an idiom for something losing popularity to the point or irrelevance. And although that is nothing I personally would say, nor did I, I think it would be very straightforward to argue for a dramatic drop in music video relevance since the days of MTV. And this trend can only, as is the ways of trends, be supporter or opposed by average type data demonstrating an across the industri decline in music video budgets. Now your triumphant pointing to Rammstein becomes just amusing.

You don't get the point of averages Vs cherry-picking.

If you want to argue for a trend you would be better off pointing to anything but outliers.