- Classification: Exempt
- Studio: Smv
- VHS Release Date: 14 May 2001
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005ATFH
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 37,017 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
With their sleek, cyber R&B sounds and lyrical/video world of cars, money, shopping, boys and sex, Texas' Destiny's Child hardly broke any new ground. However, The Platinum's on the Wall captures them at their career height, and proves no one was doing this stuff with more grandeur, sass and ice-cool efficiency. To paraphrase one commentator in 2001: This is Destiny's Child's world, the rest of us are just living in it. Beginning with their first, 1997 hit, the slow-burning, teasing "No, No, No" (Part 1) including the foxy trot of "Bills, Bills Bills"--an attack on backsliding homeboys as withering as TLC's "No Scrubs"--this collection culminates in their irresistibly over-the-top performance of "Independent Women Part 1" at the Brits 2001, in which their set, gold lamé outfits and stage entrance made Cleopatra seem like a minor member of a bicycling monarchy in the lavishness stakes. Featuring costume changes on an almost frame-by-frame basis, these videos are certainly lavish also, though the group are seen to best advantage on the likes of "Say My Name" where Beyonce Knowles, the group's leader and true star, gets to show off her persona a little. Disappointingly, the extra "biography" feature here is not a steamy account of their rapid rise and frequent personnel changes but a dreary, text-only account of their numerous TV appearances and platinum sales figures. --David Stubbs
From the Back Cover
The very first single from Destiny's Child was 'No, No, No'. Soon after its release, the single jumped to the top of the charts and went platinum, introducing to the world the group that would soon claim The Top Selling Female Group title. Destiny's Child's sophomore album, The Writing's On The Wall, has sold over six million copies in the U.S. alone and yielded four 1# singles. One after another 'Bills, Bills ,Bills' , ' Bug A Boo', ' Say My Name' and ' Jumpin Jumpin' topped the singles charts and became the hottest jams in the clubs and the streets.
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The DVD is generally good, featuring all of the videos of their number one hits. The DVD has the bonus track of the Brits 'Independent Woman' performance. The videos are all imaginative and in all the DVD is good, however, it is very disappointing that it is so short (just 6 songs plus the bonus - 2 of which are the same song) and that it doesn't feature any more of their recent performances. Very expensive for 6 songs!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
it is a good video, but it could be better-there is no interviews, just 5 videos, back2back! there should be interviews and them in concert or sumthing like that! i give it 4****
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Destiny's Childs' 'The Platinum's on the Wall' is the video of all virtually all music videos consisting of excessively-produced hokum to come from the stimulating world surrounding face singer Beyonce Knowles. Featuring the innovative original players Beyonce, Kelly, Latoya and LaTavia, the amusing videos work well with the four young talents occupied with motivation in the over elaborate wardrobes and striking dance routines.
Starting with Destiny's debut single 'No, No, No Part 1' from their first album named after themselves directed by Darren Grant & Dwayne D.C. Coles in 1998 and followed up with Part 2 by an only Grant, this time round with the inclusion of distinguished guitar-wielding rapper Wyclef Jean who shortly after went on to make a name with the band 'The Fugees' and later with a promising solo career. Both promo-videos feature a Beyonce Knowles with a maturity-beyond her years in one of the most flattering dresses to emerge from the wardrobe of many. The next four tracks come from multi-million selling follow-up album 'The Writing's On the Wall'. The third video is that of Darren Grants' 1999 'Bills, Bills, Bills' set in a hairdresser where the four singers work in the usual same colours-different designs cliché that made the four noticeable at all celebrity gala's that followed, which was later slammed as sad. Colourful with some massively obsure ideas that seems more of a showcase for the two remaining members, Beyonce & Kelly. The forth is 'Bug a Boo' which was originally released on the 27th September 1999 and is quite possibly the most tedious both song and video wise as the beautiful quartet stroll down the sidewalks in what can only be described as slow motion. Fifth and by far the most entertaining on all counts is director Joseph Kahns' 'Say my Name' which was originally released on the 17th February 2000. The out of this world multi-coloured video where the four move between red, white and blue rooms in clothes and dresses to match seems like something pulled from a Lewis Carroll novel and remains the quintessential Destiny video. The modest bridge set in an underground garage is also engaging where the choreographed dance routines are again some match for many now. Last and definently not least is the "So So Def Remix" of the hit single 'Jumpin, Jumpin' directed again by Joseph Kahn which was first released on the 13th July 2000
A video that rivals Michael Jackson's 'HIStory' on ingenuity and excitement, this is one worthy investment for any Destiny fan or budding cinematographer learning the traits of their profession. Complete as they come.
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