By the way, he’d like to introduce R.E.M.’s newest video. R.E.M. have created a video for their song “Man-Sized Wreath,” but they hired an ad agency to do it and they introduced it at their New York show on Thursday. Stipe says the time of the traditional music video has passed and “anyone who refutes that is an idiot in 2008.” He says music videos found their place in pop culture in the 1990s and have now been replaced by the Internet. So if videos are dead, then what? Stipe says, “That’s the itch that we’re trying to scratch, or the question we’re trying to answer.
