Interactive Video For Jeff Buckley’s ‘Just Like A Woman’ Cover Released
By Andy Kahn Mar 28, 2016 • 2:55 pm PDT
Among the songs included on the recently issued Jeff Buckley album You And I was a cover of the Bob Dylan classic “Just Like A Woman.” Today, an innovative and interactive video for the track has been made available.
The original audio for the video was laid down during the late performer’s first studio session for Columbia Records with producer Steve Addabbo in February 1993. Like most of the rest of the tracks on the posthumously issued new LP, Buckley made the demo at Addabbo’s Shelter Island Sound studio along with songs originally recorded by the likes of Sly & The Family Stone, Led Zeppelin, Jevetta Steele, Louis Jordan and The Smiths.
Created by media company Interlude and Blind design studios, the video allows viewers to decide in a choose-your-own-adventure style the fate of a relationship between an animated man and woman. The video also allows the viewer to incorporate piano, a choir and full orchestration into Buckley’s original guitar and vocals demo. Here’s a description of the various options the video offers:
All together there are over 16,000 different music combinations that can be created. The video contains 73 different animated cells that can be clicked or tapped to alter the story, adding up to a staggering number of possible visual and story combinations: approximately 1 sexdecillion. That’s a 1 followed by 51 zeros.
“Buckley’s performances are emotional and complex,” said Yoni Block, Interlude CEO and co-founder. “Buckley fans, of which we have many at Interlude, understand the depth of this emotion. The goal of this video is for both existing and new fans to enjoy many ways of experiencing the music and for each individual audience member to return over and over to be involved with the emotion differently each time.”
“It was an exciting challenge to make something so visually compelling and to know that people will be completely immersed in this unique experience,” said Greg Gunn, Creative Director of Blind.
Follow the link in the image below to watch and interact with the video for Buckley’s take on Dylan’s “Just Like A Woman”:
