Cirrus@Austlit

'Call me a late bloomer. It wasn't until I reached my early twenties that I realised music videos were based on real life. Not all of them, of course. No-one can afford that much body glitter. I'm talking about the music video subgenre of the relationship melodrama. To be even more specific, I'm referring to the argument-while-driving: the kind that ends in a crash, resulting in coma and/or death, and finishing with a camera craning up to the heavens. Perhaps a dove is released, too, if you're feeling particularly nineties or happen to be at a karaoke parlor.' (Publication abstract)