[This post got BANNED at another fan site (the popular Mazzy&Hope FB site). Lucky you get to read it HERE!]
HOPE'S X-RATED VIDEO, "PARADISE CIRCUS"!
(no, it's not quite what you may be thinking).
The uncensored video is viewable at Vimeo, here:
https://vimeo.com/71961703Mention of this video is findable already in the HS&TWI Interviews thread, but I thought
it deserves a more detailed, prominent post. It's a video the band Massive Attack released
in Dec., 2009, an official video of their and Hope's song "Paradise Circus," released as a single around
the same time, a song collaboration with Hope as she wrote the lyrics & melody, and sang it. The song was also included on Massive Attack's Feb. 2010 album release, "Heligoland."
Five or six years ago, fans visiting go-to fan site of the time, Mazzy Star Boulevard (now defunct), knew about the video as it was discussed there. And music sites publicized it. But since many people may have missed it, it deserves a new post.
It's no doubt one of the more unusual aspects of Hope's career. It's an official video
of her/Massive Attack's song, an interesting, though XXX-rated, documentary which
means you won't find it on youtube uncensored. It's not a conventional music video. Instead, it's
a short documentary film that uses the song "Paradise Circus" as its soundtrack/theme song.
It's a documentary of an interview with retired porn star Georgina Spelvin, now a senior,
and includes hard core clips from her 1973 "porn classic" "The Devil in Miss Jones."
The documentary appears to have been edited to a length to approximately fit the song's
length. The opening credits say it's presented by "Heligoland Pictures," which links
it directly to the band Massive Attack. It appears to have been a collaboration between
Massive Attack and film director Toby Dye.
The XXX-rated video of "Paradise Circus" used to be viewable at Massive Attack's official
site, but last I checked is no longer up there. But I did notice today, the band's FB page
has a couple of posts with links to a Vimeo upload of the video, viewable here:
https://vimeo.com/71961703-There was an interview with Hope from some time in 2010 I once read
somewhere but can no longer find. It was interesting for her comments re.
her collaboration with Massive Attack on the song "Paradise Circus," & for her comments
re. the documentary video. Hope said the song came about when the band sent Hope the
music track which she wrote a vocal part & lyrics for, & recorded her part in her own home
studio without even meeting with the band.
In the "lost" interview, Hope's asked some questions about the video. Going just
from memory now, I recall she said she really liked the film/video, though she
said it was "pretty wild." And I believe Hope said something to the effect that
she found Georgina's comments about sex fascinating. Hope said the film needed her
formal approval before it could be released, i.e. she said they needed her to sign
off on its release since her song was featured in it. She also mentioned
her brother had seen it, &, amusingly said "I hope my Dad doesn't see it." That
part was funny.
I've also upped a higher video quality vesion of this video hanwaker shared with me to this file sharing site where anyone can download it:
https://mega.nz/#!6FUVWYwK!G2znr27r1Qnk ... 7aU2riT9zUIt's listed in the Boots thread now. It's much better quality than the Vimeo versions online, which is why I'm adding it here. Also, see p. 5 of the "Youtube Links" thread re. my yt upload relating to the video.
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I recently posted a post similar to this one re. the Paradise Circus video to the popular
Facebook Mazzy/Hope fan site mentioned elsewhere in this forum. Unfortunately, it was up for but a brief time
'cause one of its five administrators removed it. They have a clumsy admin. system over there, apparently. David Morgan (opalstardream) is an administrator, and he gave my post a thumbs-up "like" vote, along with six other Group members. But a short time later, an anonymous administrator (I don't know who) took it upon his or her self to not only in effect "veto" fellow administrator David's "like,' but to unilaterally delete the post entirely. What kind of Hope fan site administrator would do that, i.e. censor/suppress/ ban an official video of a Hope song, a video she herself likes and approved? No FB rules against nudity or porn were broken. The XXX video was not embedded on the FB page as I provided only a non-working link that people who wanted to view it needed to manually correct by replacing the word "DOT" with a real "."
It would be equivalent to an administrator at a Lou Reed/Velvet Underground fan site banning all of Lou's drug songs, and all discussion of them, on the grounds the administrator didn't personally approve of illicit drug use! Seriously, that's how obnoxious, ridiculous, and inappropriate it is, imo, for a Hope fan site administrator to ban info. re. the "Paradise Circus" video, presumably on the grounds the admin. doesn't personally like the porn aspect.
I learned today Massive Attack's own FB page has a had a couple of posts up for years with direct links to the Vimeo video, although the video's not embedded on the page. Not allowed at the Mazzy Star & Hope Sandoval FB Group though! Sheesh. (Just had to vent a little).
Probably a lot of Hope fans don't even know about the Paradise Circus video, particularly newer fans, or ones who weren't paying close attention 5 or 6 years ago. But it's an interesting video, and a part of Hope's career, an unusual part deserves to be known.
I learned yt does have a version of the Paradise Circus video up, but with all XXXes removed. That is, the interview & film are intact except all porn scenes are shown completely out of focus/obscured so there's nothing XXX, left to see, just a tiny bit of "R" (brief nudity). But Vimeo's got the complete, unabridged, uncensored video here:
https://vimeo.com/71961703Also, I now have my own upload of the song with a slideshow at yt, here:
https://youtu.be/pnr9uSxiYcY