they link into my profile of Nirvana as Foo Fighters drummer Dave Grohl formed the band after his previous band Nirvana split up. the term Foo Fighter comes from WW2 they used this term for unidentified flying objects. Foo fighters formed in 1995 and their music videos tend to be either parody or mainly focused on performance breaking away slightly from the typical conventions of a rock music video.
Their music ranges from more acoustic to hard rock.
Some of their music video ideas have been mimiced by the likes of 30 seconds to mars focusing alot on the performance but having flashes of images or a few seconds of something happening thats not a narrative but are relevant to the song or lyrics, for example in Foo Fighters Video to Best Of You the video is mainly them performing but has images such as a baby to show life when they say the words your giving me life or death and an animal pouncing on its prey to show death.
Throughout their career they have had several band members leave and new members join. in a way this can help them stay on trend, by bringing in new band members it can bring in new ideas.
A few of their videos are parody, its mainly them dressed up as different characters occasionally with a few extras. The narrative to these stories are comedic for instance, learn to fly beggins with the Tenacious D posing as cleaners whilst they try to smuggle drugs into the plane, the captain comes aboard an they rush accidentally putting the drugs into the coffee the rest of the video is how the coffee ends up being served and everyone gets high without realising including the captains and they need a hero to save them from crashing.
The way its done is amusing as the lead singer of the band plays most characters including a young girl.
Videos like this are also very typical of bands like Blink 182 with all the small things and first date both being of similar set ups to this.
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