DT are one of those bands I trust enough with their output and so for the last two albums I've adopted a no preview policy. Bought them blindly on release day and that was it, no music heard before.
I adopted the no preview policy around the self titled. Otherwise I'm right there with you on that statement. However, I think it's only natural that an early taste of the album would influence your anticipation of it, it may not go as far as deterring you as a fan from listening to the album when it comes out, but it will play a role that varies from one fan to another in how attached we are to the project, following updates, interviews, reviews, etc.
To me for example TEI had yawning about the new album before it came out. Looking back at it now, that could have easily been different if the video had the band performing the song instead of a story going along with the lyrics. Still though, I ended up with one of my least favorite DT albums ever, certainly the worse one with JR.
On the other hand, to show how much variables there are; I didn't care much for OTBOA either. But then ADTOE came out and melted my face, becoming an easy top 3 DT album for me.
So I guess what I'm getting from this thread is that it's definitely a case-by-case thing that is heavily individually-based, nothing to do with single or video quality.
I watch a music video once for the novelty of it. Now that I think about it, I still haven't watched the videos off the new album. I do use YouTube, but it's casual and background stuff, it's not a place to actively follow my favorite bands.
I'm the same way unless the video grabs my attention in a unique way, basically performance videos do that. And split screen in-studio videos like Untethered Angel are specifically interesting to me.
I know this is useless in the contest of the thread, but at least you'll know that there are some people out there on which the single thing doesn't work
Naah man, I appreciate your input.
A Right of Passage was the first music video of theirs Ive watched. I thought the video was badass and the band members looked cool to me. The song is awesome as well. The two together is what made purchase BC&SL.
Yep, A Rite of Passage is definitely my favorite DT video.
Frankly, my first reaction on reading the choices was, "wasn't Forsaken the lead single from SC?" I guess not....
I also thought Forsaken was the single off of SC!
According to Wikipedia, Constant Motion was released as a single on April 27, 2007 -- 38 days before SC was released on June 4, 2007 -- and Forsaken wasn't released as a single until March 31, 2008.
I'd like to congratulate you both for having a life, I knew that by heart. I didn't even have to double-check anything to make the list in the poll
In my defense, it maybe cause I remember living through all these events here on DTF. Waiting for singles/videos, I remember whining about the Constant Motion video cutting my favorite section of the song short and I remember learning about Forsaken video being animated before it coming out and that we already had the album at this point.