Oct 252011
When I first found today’s song, I immediately thought of this dragonfly photo I took while on vacation a few weeks ago:
That is, until I finished watching the music video and realized the video director and the artist might not realize the difference between a butterfly and a dragonfly…
If you’re keeping track at home, that’s a Taxonomy Fail Index of 57.8, and quite frankly, one of the least imaginable given the general popularity of both orders! Perhaps that was an artistic choice of some manner…
This song is available on iTunes – Dragonfly – Bring Me the Workhorse
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I can definitely see your point about the artist and director not understanding the difference between butterfly and dragonfly wings! In defense of the costume however (and to play devil’s advocate), I would like to point out that the people who make insect/fairy wings like the ones the artist is wearing have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about and label their products incorrectly all the time. If you don’t know much about the wings of an insect you’re looking for, you probably take the maker’s word for it and assume that they’re identifying the wings they’re selling correctly. As someone who has been looking for a decent pair of dragonfly wings for the last 6 or 7 years (why do all insect/fairy wings have to be pastel and/or have glitter on them??!!), I can safely say that 95% of the “dragonfly” wings I’ve looked at are anything but. Perhaps the artist/director just assumed the wings were dragonfly wings because they didn’t know better? Granted, given the little dodads hanging off the hind wings, I’d be willing to bet that the wings in the video were labelled as fairy wings and they just didn’t care…
Wow, this made me realize just how much I know about costume insect wings! Wonder how much time I’ve wasted researching this subject…