BJDs in Music (art and covers)

I was thinking the same thing when I saw this cover

 

Same here. It was the first thought that came to my head when I first saw the single's art cover. That caught my attention was the dolls hand position (thumb). I've never seen a hand like this. Maybe this could be a clue? It could also be an artist doll.

 

If you search for Amazarashi's "Deserving of Life" music video, you'll find a lot of dolls (including BJDs) in there. Exercise discretion when watching though, because it's meant to tie-in with a story of NieR: Automata that involved destroying dolls.

 

I remember that the doll in the Kerli video for “Walking on Air” is a DIM Flora. That doll was actually painted by Pepstar! Kerli had another video for her song “Tea Party” which featured Goodreau dolls. I had noticed the Mylène Farmer cover too!
A BJD also featured randomly in Satyricon’s video for their song “K.I.N.G”. Trying to think if there are any others now!

 

The hand reminds me of those Ringdoll hands? I don't know their sculpts well enough to guess if it actually is a Ringdoll or not, though.


I remember Kerli's doll videos well, I had just found out about bjds and probably thought that *whoa a sign!!!*

Last summer, I saw a Japanese puppet performance where the musician had a bunch of dolls on the stage with them (including a custom Blythe) - while they do make noise instruments out of toys and own at least one BJD, I don't think they use the latter for music purposes... Still cool to stumble upon another doll person in the wild!

 

@SPhosphate To add a little bit of trivia: I believe the doll was supplied via The JunkySpot and I think that they were in a sort of time crunch to get the doll painted by Pepstar and delivered to Kerli’s team in time for the video filming! I think there were two dolls the painted one and a blank one for the CGI part. I was a huge fan of Kerli and similar artists way back when so I always remembered a few of these little facts… there might be some more info out there on DOA or dA if you want to have a dig.

Thanks for finding some info about the Mylène Farmer doll as I had wondered about that

 

It might be "creator I like" bias, but the doll on the Dir En Gray cover reminds me of Shinydoll! They are also from Japan and their hands are posed similarly.

 

What a time capsule! If only they'd taken better close-ups of the dolls!! Oh well, I guess you can't have everything...

 

Holy nostalgia! I remember watching this when getting into steampunk stuff. For some reason I didn't remember the dolls. Great find!

 

I believe Grimes has an album cover with a Popovy! I think they even did a special custom design for her cover art.

 

Yes, and their discontinued sculpt Quetzal was a homage to a fav musician of mine: FKA twigs.
They also gave two OOAK to J.P. Gaultier.

 

Nice find!
They should show more dolls in music videos.
Katy Perry owns a Pasha Pasha doll and I would love to see her in videos.

 

You can see it on the websites "about" section. Even Demi Moore owns one.

 

The band Deuxvolt used my photography of my (long since rehomed), Fairyland boys for the cover of their album Union of Opposites years and years ago. If you google it, you can still find it, I think.