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Pretty much everybody remembers “Closing Time” by Semisonic. The lyrics to the song were inspired by the birth of singer Dan Wilson’s child and are pretty memorable. The concept for the music video was explained by drummer Jacob Slichter in his book So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer’s Life. I highly recommend this book, which is a humorous and honest account of the rise and fall of a rock band, Semisonic in this case. Anyway, the video was filmed using a single shot approach, but with a split screen which required Dan Wilson to be on camera for each of the screens during the video. A pretty neat effect that makes this video concept work well.

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