Hi - thanks for replying, and sorry about the abruptness of that question. I'm really uncomfortable raining on anyone's fanvid parade since I know how much time, work, and love goes into their creation, but I'm even more uncomfortable about the association of the ethnic Other with communicating with animals (even if, in an ep of SGA, said animal species is really smart). Tuvan throat-singing technique may sound quite alien to most of us, but to suggest that the singers sound like animals, without at least finding out (and announcing in the vid info) whether the meaning of the song is remotely relevant to the message you're using it for... well, maybe this is just my overly sensitive personal trigger (my ethnicity has had its share of similar associations through history), but the song choice strikes me as inappropriate.
Again, I truly regret that I had to raise this issue - because you're one of the coolest people in the SGA fandom, and because I'm really happy that SGA still has an active fandom, and because it's fantastic to hear in a vid the music I've only encountered once before (years ago when a college buddy made me a mixed tape) and the internet should be as beautifully global as you have clearly intended it to be in your work - but this has been weighing rather heavily on my mind for the past few days, so I had to point it out.
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Date: 2009-08-02 09:49 pm (UTC)Again, I truly regret that I had to raise this issue - because you're one of the coolest people in the SGA fandom, and because I'm really happy that SGA still has an active fandom, and because it's fantastic to hear in a vid the music I've only encountered once before (years ago when a college buddy made me a mixed tape) and the internet should be as beautifully global as you have clearly intended it to be in your work - but this has been weighing rather heavily on my mind for the past few days, so I had to point it out.