Stevie Wonder Makes A Music Video For Blind People!

Laughing at the blind is not cool. And sneaking into a blind man’s house and moving all his furniture around is even less cool.

So what follows is not an attack on blind people, just an attack on a very stupid idea.

Stevie Wonder (CDs), the once-good-now-rubbish singer, is releasing a new album. Back when he released Songs In The Key Of Life or Innervisions, or even Signed Sealed Delivered, he let the music do the talking.

But now the marketplace has changed, with downloads and CD:UK and multi-format flexi-DVD T-shirts and whatnot.  So Stevie has come up with a stupendously crap gimmick to get noticed as an artist again.

His new music video for So What The Fuss has a commentary for blind people.

This is strange for a number of reasons. Firstly, according to
Wonder, "there are 10 million people
who are blind or have low-vision and are not able to enjoy the
experience of seeing music videos." What are they missing? Alicia Keys (CDs)
playing a piano? Robbie Williams (CDs) ice-skating? Lionel Richie’s (CDs) clay
head?

There’s another point. If there’s a commentary, how will the blind
people actually hear the song? Doesn’t this whole enterprise seem completely
pointless? Don’t you make videos to promote singles, not to blab all
over the top of them?

The best news is that the commentary will not be done by Wonder
(actually, that would be bizarre. A blind man commentating on something
he can’t see), but by Busta Rhymes (CDs). For this reason alone, we’d like to
hear the commentary. "IT’S A TREE, MOTHERFUCKER!" The interesting thing
would be to see how many times he bellows "FLIPMODE SQUAD" right at the
terrifyed sightless audience.

The video (with commentary) will be premiered tomorrow on Yahoo!
Music. So turn on, tune in and smash your eyes out with a corkscrew.

[story by Stuart Heritage]