Sound And Vision: Hiro Murai

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we discuss several music videos by Hiro Murai. There was a time where it looked like Hiro Murai was losing some of his edge, becoming a more generic music video director, with music videos like B.O.B-'s Airplanes, Usher's DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love and Enrique Iglesias' Heartbeat, all of which sanded of Murai's more interesting edges, while keeping some of his main themes intact: all are glitzy explorations in which the lead singer manipulates the shadows and lights in his environment, shaping the world to their hand, becoming one with light and shadow, quite explicitly even in Heartbeat. This has been a theme since Murai's...

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