Post by nikkeisindex on Feb 21, 2023 16:46:09 GMT
Pretty good.
I knew they were a Beatlesey pop band prior to Saturday Night Fever but hearing their whole story is interesting. I didn't really know the 3 older brothers were The Bee Gees and the younger one kind of always struggled and actually died the youngest, after technically being made a member of The Bee Gees after like 20 years.
They do a credible job of presenting from the bands' perspective that the whole "Saturday Night Fever" phenomenon was something of an unexpected fluke that just happened to coincide with Barry discovering falsetto, and for a band that had been around for so long the absolute backlash of hatred was a shocking surprise. They get a bit into Steve Dahl -- as a proud Chicagoan obviously I am familiar with the disco demolition derby, Steve's odd kind of punky but not good 7", but I didn't know he used to inhale helium before mocking the Bee Gees. There's a clip of him doing this to Meatloaf on some show and they both look like complete dumbasses.
Given that all but 1 guy is dead the doc did a good job of having plenty of interview footage from most of the members and making it flow well. Some fun pop-ups from the Coldplay guy, who said like yeah, in this day and age, being a huge band, you know your popularity will ebb and flow and you may become not only less popular but actually derided and mocked, but the Bee Gees were learning that for the first time. And, for some reason, Justin Timberlake talking about how their voices kind of could be horn lines, which is interesting, but he seems insane about it.
Basically this isn't a GREAT doc, but I'm pretty hard up and can watch nearly any music doc that isn't absolutely awful. This was a fine watch, and that's with slim to no interest in the Bee Gees specifically.
Oh, it ends with a somewhat recent clip of the last living Bee Gee, Barry, singing "Stayin' Alive" to an absolutely giant and enthusiastic crowd. I didn't know if this was intentionally odd or not. I mean, he's the only one that did "Stay Alive."
I knew they were a Beatlesey pop band prior to Saturday Night Fever but hearing their whole story is interesting. I didn't really know the 3 older brothers were The Bee Gees and the younger one kind of always struggled and actually died the youngest, after technically being made a member of The Bee Gees after like 20 years.
They do a credible job of presenting from the bands' perspective that the whole "Saturday Night Fever" phenomenon was something of an unexpected fluke that just happened to coincide with Barry discovering falsetto, and for a band that had been around for so long the absolute backlash of hatred was a shocking surprise. They get a bit into Steve Dahl -- as a proud Chicagoan obviously I am familiar with the disco demolition derby, Steve's odd kind of punky but not good 7", but I didn't know he used to inhale helium before mocking the Bee Gees. There's a clip of him doing this to Meatloaf on some show and they both look like complete dumbasses.
Given that all but 1 guy is dead the doc did a good job of having plenty of interview footage from most of the members and making it flow well. Some fun pop-ups from the Coldplay guy, who said like yeah, in this day and age, being a huge band, you know your popularity will ebb and flow and you may become not only less popular but actually derided and mocked, but the Bee Gees were learning that for the first time. And, for some reason, Justin Timberlake talking about how their voices kind of could be horn lines, which is interesting, but he seems insane about it.
Basically this isn't a GREAT doc, but I'm pretty hard up and can watch nearly any music doc that isn't absolutely awful. This was a fine watch, and that's with slim to no interest in the Bee Gees specifically.
Oh, it ends with a somewhat recent clip of the last living Bee Gee, Barry, singing "Stayin' Alive" to an absolutely giant and enthusiastic crowd. I didn't know if this was intentionally odd or not. I mean, he's the only one that did "Stay Alive."