Eagle Eye Cherry

This post will sum up our adventures with Eagle-Eye Cherry’s ‘Are You Still Having Fun?’

If you're right or wrong, you do what you please
Having so much fun you lost your reason
After all is said and done
Well are you still having fun
And how is it to know that you've gone astray
And happiness would go like a vast emotion
And if all is gone away
Are you happy today

Well you know when you get the feelin'
You don't care and you take no one
Feelin' low you'd be always need it but you're havin' fun
Oh - Don't know what it is you've done
Oh - your - don't - yeah.

This was your mistake and your master plan
With all the drugs you take you can hardly stand
After all is said and done
Well are you still havin' fun?

Well you know when you get the feelin'
You don't care and you take no one
Feelin' low you'd always need it
Now - you're havin' fun
Well are you still havin' fun
Oh - you don't know what it is you've done
Oh - Just to show that you're havin fun
Oh - you don't know what it is you've done
Oh - are you sure now.

I could let you stay if you let me stay
I hope I'm not too late now you won't regret it
I can show you the way
And yet your happy today

Well you know when you get the feelin'
You don't care and you take no one
Feelin' low you will always need it
Well you know that you're bein' cheated
Yeh you know the you are deafeated
Feelin' low you'd be always need it
But now you're havin' fun
Like you're still havin' fun
Are you still havin' fun?
Are you still havin fun

After much deliberation we decided to create a music video to Eagle-Eye Cherry’s song ‘Are You Still Having Fun?’. We decided, after watching other videos of his and researching his music, we decided we would have a single male performer with an acoustic guitar performing to the camera with a guitar (conforming to a lot of Eagle-Eye Cherry’s videos). This would be interspersed by three separate narratives relating to the lyrics (conforming to a convention of music videos). These were a wealthy ‘daddy’s girl’ who was a heavy drug user (relating to ‘With all the drugs you take you can hardly stand’), a child in playing in his room, pretending to be a monster attacking the city he had built out of toys (relating to ‘This was your mistake and your master plan’), and a couple who had a fiery relationship that goes wrong (relates to main themes in the song).

However, as planning went forward we realised that, although in love with the ideas, none of us loved the song or the style, and thus, the idea was scrapped and we started again on Feeder’s ‘Just A Day’.