review of "I Believe" -- new music video by Josh Groban

I posted the following as a twitlonger

Review of "I Believe"

Music:

Appears to be a new recording.  Sounds richer and more powerful.  This is good.  Josh did improve his singing!

Josh's appearance:

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good:

facial expression

gestures

Hair -- finally debugged

blazer (except what is that weird black thing where the pocket should be?)

shirt

good eye contact with camera

bad:

pants, esp. don't like the cuffs

shoes (look like they've been through a cow pasture & probably have manure on them)

Backdrop

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good:

color transitions very effective

more interesting than typical US warehouse -- is it a palace?

enjoying passing the small ensemble on way to full orchestra & chorus

lots of women in the orchestra

bad:

another empty warehouse! [or at least a similar atmosphere large, empty room]

very few people of color or older people in orchestra

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I think the explanation for the lack of people of color is that the video was shot in Europe, where there are less people of color.  

There is no possible explanation for the lack of older orchestra and choral participants other than a conscious decision, as in the "I Walk Away" video, to make Josh's fans look uniformly young.  Given that Josh does have so many older fans, I am surprised that he keeps getting away with this.  Age discrimination is like a huge frontier of unexamined wrongs.

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Addendum: 4/21/13

Looking back at the video again, I do see more older participants, but they are in back and out of focus.

Josh made his fortune off older fans, but it doesn't seem like he likes older people in his videos.