Collected Thoughts

I've been reading everyone's reactions to the vids that premiered at Escapade. I dind't go to the con but I have seen many of the vids already (I'm a vid downloading fool). One of the vids that I've watched several times is przed's One of God's Better People, There's been a lot of discussion about this and the song choice and I had a question about song choice.

The thing that I've heard is that the song doesn't fit the fandom because it's anachronistic. Maybe I'm just weird but because LoTR is a fantasy I can't really say that any song is going to be anachronstic. I know that I've seen a vid about the orcs set to a more industrial song, I can't remember the vid or seem to find it on my computer. However the song worked for what the vid was about. I'm new to vids so I don't really understand the whole "the song doesn't fit the time frame so it can't be used" idea.

Is that just for historical fandoms? Or does that work for shows like Starsky & Hutch or The Professionals? Do people feel that it's not a good idea to use recent songs when making vids in those fandoms? I'm not quite sure what kind of lines are being drawn. And it seems extremely limiting to me, especially for something like Lord of the Rings, or well anything. And if someone would feel thrown out of a vid because a new song was used for S&H or The Pros, then what about Due South? Where are the lines drawn for this kind of thing?

My own opinon of One of God's Better People is this:

It took me a bit to get into the vid because of the initial relationship of Aragorn/Boromir. I don't see the slash in LotR at all and so I couldn't quite "get" what was trying to brought across. If it was a slash vid or just "really really good friends" or how I should view but as the vid went on I stopped thinking about what I should be thinking and just watched it. Once I let go of that I really got into the vid and enjoyed it. I can go back and enjoy it from my own perspective of Aragorn and Boromir having a complicated platonic relationship and also see the vid from the viewpoint of them as a pairing (although Ihave to push myself with that). But the problem was never with the song, probably because I really didn't know that there were "rules" when it came to this sort of thing.