Let’s See How Far We’ve Come…Literally.

Although this video may not be as technically advanced as others are in this day and age, it serves a purpose. The title itself “How Far We’ve Come” states the purpose of the representation Matchbox Twenty strives to portray. The images are the message almost as much as the lyrics are, both in fact parallel each other. Video clips ranging from the first man on the moon, to JFK, to the Woman’s Rights Movement, to Ali, to Pele (the Brazillian Soccer Player, hailed as one of the greatest players ever) to the ancient computers, to Live Aid, to the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall to images of Princess Diana, to President Clinton meeting with Yasser Arafat, to Y2K, to last year’s Live Earth brought about by Al Gore and his strives to address the changing climate, to this year’s biggest story, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton being two of the front runners for the Democratic Party in the 2008 Presidential Election…whew. See how far we’ve come? For the most part, the video is a performance video, at least whenever the band is shown playing in the studio or on rooftops.  Besides Matchbox Twenty playing along, the main focus is on the events of the past 6 or 7 decades. It goes to show just how far our society has advanced. For example, in the beginning of the video, a clip is shown of women marching for equal rights. President John F. Kennedy established the President’s Commission on the Status of Women in 1961 and appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as chairwoman. The Equal Rights Amendment was passed in 1972 by Congress. Now in the year 2008, Hilary Clinton is running for President. That’s less than fifty years since women have been discriminated against because of their gender. Let’s just think about this for a second, what if Senator Clinton becomes president, won’t she then be in the position to meet with other world leaders, men no less, in countries where women are still experiencing prejudice? I think it’s safe to say that Matchbox Twenty might have to reshoot their video in the next decade, because times are changing, fast. I know I’ve said this in my first blog, but think about the computers that used to be the size of the room, and now Apple introduced MacBook Air..which is thinner than any other laptop on the market. How ’bout them apples?