Dinosaur
Discoverylover put me onto this song by Australian group Kisschasy.
The song itself is a good one, with some offbeat images:
I know I can’t taste your skin
with an ocean between us
But our love is a dinosaur, hear it roar
Apparently “this is a song that the lead singer wrote in all of ten minutes while waiting at the airport to go on a tour overseas. It was written for his girlfriend…”
The theme is that their love will survive distance and disaster, an inspiring notion indeed.
The music video, however, takes this theme to a new dimension, and is what I really love about the song.
A romantic video about dinosaurs and the ending is kind of sad, but kind of triumphant. The apparently low-budget animation is charming in itself, but it’s the details I enjoy. The Australian (or possibly New Zealand) flags on the spacegloves of the dinosoar. The way that the asteroid destruction sequence echoes the classic old arcade game of Asteroids. The photograph of the girlotops on the dashboard.
It’s a definite like for me. Again and again.
—Skyring