![]() Hyper-intuitive as to what might be its cause, she invites Joey round to the all-female flophouse/base of operations/nightclub where she is staying with her gang, the Cherry Bombers. Regina, apparently nursing a crush, notices the change. Joey withdraws from her loving grandparents, and no longer smiles at strangers on her way to work. O’Rourke’s treatment of this scene is tactful, and Joey’s disorientation and fragmented memories in the aftermath are cannily evoked by the stylized, pop-art quick cutting he favors (it’s no wonder there are three credited editors, the flashy, music-video-style cutting would threaten repetitive strain injury on just one). She agrees to go a party with him later, where it’s all fun and games until he roofies her, takes her home and rapes her in her own bed. At work, she connects briefly with a customer, Regina (Alexandra Shipp, a standout in a stacked cast) before being distracted by a reunion with ominously clean-cut former classmate, Mike (“Riverdale’s” Casey Cotts). A sunnier, orchestral stretch of Lilah Larson’s score plays as Joey ( Kiersey Clemons, who also produces along with Miller) cycles to her waitress job at the local diner, smiling and waving at passersby. In obviously marked contrast to the accurately vicious misogyny of Vanderhill’s videos, we’re suddenly in the Oklahoman town of Guthrie. Vanderhill, a kind of militarized, millennial riff on Tom Cruise’s “Magnolia” character, only less actually charismatic, has built up a loyal fanbase among the fratboy and disgruntled-deadbeat population of Oklahoma. In a flurry of YouTube clips and TikTok testimonials, we’re introduced to the fully loathsome Mark Vanderhill (Ezra Miller), a pick-up artist turned Men’s Rights crusader whose mantra of male dominance, expressed through the subjugation of women and the undiscerning worship of the submachine gun, might seem exaggerated if you have been in a coma for the last couple of decades. The opening - a montage culled from the lower reaches of the collective incel id - promises better. ![]() It’s the “Charlie’s Angels” freeze-pose of rape-revenge movies. But in execution (and there are precious few of those), “ Asking for It” is too much like its cardboard heroines: edgy on the outside, empty within. 8.On paper, the premise of writer-director Eamon O’Rourke’s feature debut seems irresistible: An all-girl gang of abuse survivors, seriously upskilled in the use of baseball bats, bombs and butterfly knives, roams heartland America exacting vengeance on Bad Men - which here means #AlmostAllMen. "Threat To Survival" was the third SHINEDOWN album to enter the chart in the Top 10, following "Amaryllis" and 2008's "The Sound Of Madness", which debuted at No. I kind of borrowed a little bit from CHEAP TRICK and Billy Joel…" "As far as sonically, it's a very classic punk rock style song. It just means be careful how you treat people, basically, and don't be a jerk. "As far as subject matter, it's pretty straight forward: be careful of the toes that you step on in life, because they may be the attached to the ass that you have to kiss later on. It always felt like the opening song to the record, and it is the opening song to the album. 'Asking For It' just kind of held on through the all of the other sessions. With the help of our management at In De Goot Entertainment and our esteemed record company, Atlantic Records, we feel that we've done just that."īrent previously told the WGRD radio station about "Asking For It": "It's a unique track on the record because it was the very first song that was written for what came to be 'Threat To Survival', and normally during the writing process, we'll write a lot of songs before we go in to record what the album is going to be - anywhere from between forty and upwards of sixty songs sometimes. "We collectively wanted to do something completely original and different for us and our audience. "Working with longtime friend and director Darren Doane is always an adventure. ![]() "The video for 'Asking For It' is more of a skit/short than a music video. ![]() So what we decided to do on the latest installment in the SHINEDOWN catalogue was have as much fun as possible. 6 on The Billboard 200 album chart, selling 65,000 copies in its first week of release.Ĭommented SHINEDOWN singer Brent Smith: "There are many elements that go into making a SHINEDOWN video. The track is taken from the band's fifth studio album, "Threat To Survival", which debuted at No. The official "short film" for the new SHINEDOWN song "Asking For It" can be seen below. ![]()
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