m-flo loves Chara / Love to Live By

The history of the relationship of animation and music tells us of a birthing point where machines, such as phonograms and projectors, would play a major role in publicising and inspiring artistry on a global scale. In this Japanese Hip-Hop video, this Hip-Hop group "m-flo", a personal favourite of mine, have taken their passion for old-school forms of art and entertainment and applied it to their Jazzy tune "Love to Live By", in March 28, 2007. Their feature artist "Chara" has an old-school Jazzy vocal style that inspired music video makers to hire animators and create a world for this song; resembling those of Max Fleischer and Grim Natwick's "Betty Boop" cartoons of 1930, particularly the theatrical number she starred in "Betty Boop - Rise to Fame" of 1934. This piece not only pays tribute to the global sensation that was Betty Boop, but to the principles of animation itself, repackaged in a form appreciated by today's market.

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This particular animated episode struck a chord with me, as it reminded me of other notable political animations at the time, such as Donald Duck's "Der Fuehrer's Face" 1943 and "Donald Get's Drafted" 1942.

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