The Bee Gees convey tremendous joy in the music itself. They love music so much, and it shows. In particular, watching them perform causes people to often say that listening to them and watching them makes those people feel so happy. This is true even for the sad songs, of which there are many.

This is a very typical reaction from some listeners (I’ve cued it up for just 3 minutes that demonstrate what I’m talking about), hearing the Bee Gees for the first time:

With the Bee Gees, their interviews are so funny, too, and charming. Most of the time they look like they’re having a great time as they sing. Their smiles could light up a room.

neo:

Another thought. Perhaps I don’t know the BeeGees catalog well enough to say, but from both groups I get the feeling of pure, professional joy under the songs.

Which is not to say the songs are always happy or impersonal, but it’s not like listening to Lou Reed or the Doors either.

http://faculty.jsd.claremont.edu/dmcfarlane/bio176mcfarlane/pdf%20papers/Wallaces%20Line%20_1944.pdf

Prager on California (from Dec. 2020)
https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2020/12/22/the-sovietization-of-california-n2581951

There is this, though:

Past Glories at the National Museum of the USAF (Filmed indoors with a commodity COTS drone the US is no-longer capable of conceiving or manufacturing — and indeed which is manufactured by its No. 1 Geostrategic Adversary — pardon the endless harping):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4wLr8_Kaw4

I won’t be watching the 5 hour Apple Effort in one sitting for sure! Downloaded it and will digest in chunks and fast forward through the boring dance bits (Sorry Neo).

What they don’t say is that while it was filmed on an iPhone they likely trucked in really a lot of unseen lighting equipment to give them a leg up. Usually when cinematography is done indoors using only available light (Kubrick and Forman come to mind) much ado is made of it.

But still, a decade back this couldn’t have been done. I must go research whether or not anyone has attempted this with a drone.

I’m just glad that our gracious hostess hasn’t decided to identify as NeoPronoun.

Remind me again why Gina Carano got cancelled.