Ozzy Osbourne: “Life Won’t Wait” Video Review

Ozzy Osbourne was at one time the most evil man in entertainment. He bit the head off a bat. He pissed on The Alamo. He snorted and smoked every drug known to man. Then came The Osbournes, the television show that put his family in the limelight and introduced the world to the idea of the celebrity reality show.

In the time since the show ended we learned that Kelly can dance, Sharon has an eye for talent, and Jack also really likes drinking and do drugs. We are no longer afraid of the Osbournes. We are no longer afraid of Ozzy. We now see him as the guy who mumbles, picks up dog poop and cannot work the television remote control.

But his new video for “Life Won’t Wait” reintroduces Ozzy as the Prince of Darkness, and takes a look at his very sketchy past. The video was actually directed by his son Jack, who has recently won the battle with the drug demons he shares with his Pops. This probably led to the plotline of the video.

The video opens up in a cemetery, with Ozzy dressed all in black — which is not surprising in the least. A funeral begins as Ozzy watches from the inside of a hearse. All the plot scenes are interspersed with video of Ozzy performing with his band inside of a church, or inside of a crypt.

The video quickly changes to a scene featuring two young British boys — we can only assume they are British because they look like the kids from Mary Poppins — who start to fight with each other and proceed to wreck an entire living room. Ozzy watches from a chair in the living room while feathers fly around him. At this point, the viewer still does not understand what Ozzy’s role in the video is.

The next scene features a group of teenagers drinking and smoking weed inside of some kind of storage unit. The party is raging, as the first-person perspective — or as they call in the porn industry; a “POV” shot — leads the viewer outside. The camera pans down to see the subject urinating on the ground and on his own feet. The subject passes out, and wakes up with Ozzy staring over him.

At this point, the viewer starts to wonder if Ozzy is playing the role of the grim reaper and showing up in the subject’s moment of death as he takes them to the grave. But the next few scenes make this theory seem a little flat.

The next few shots are once again in POV form, with the subject at a pool party, beating up a housewife, watching two lesbians make out, kicking everyone out of a party, and then dumping a bunch of drugs down a toilet.

The subject then splashes water all over his face, and looks in the mirror to reveal Ozzy himself. On a second viewing, it becomes obvious that the entire video revolves around Ozzy’s life from the time he was a young child, to his teenage years, to rockstar parties, to domestic disputes with Sharon, and to him finally becoming sober.

As much as the video is about Ozzy — with imagined funeral sequences of what could have been — the lyrics are a warning to his son and to others about the dangers of living too much of a party lifestyle.

“Every day that you wait / You’re falling faster / No slight of hand, no twist of fate / No ever after / When it’s gone it’s gone / A fight ‘til the bitter end / Life won’t wait for you no / Life won’t wait for you my friend.”

The video is surprisingly good, all except for the last few frames where Ozzy smiles to show the audience that he has fangs. He then shrugs at the camera as if to say, “Aren’t vampires really cool right now? We wanted to throw something vampire-related in there. Oh well.”

But other than this little wink at the end, the video is a pretty impressive feat for Jack’s first one. He is currently directing a documentary about Ozzy’s life called Wreckage Of My Past: The Ozzy Osbourne Story, and it looks like he will soon become the latest member of the Osbourne tribe to find success outside of Ozzy’s shadow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAh_SCjCh8A

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Posted on 09/1/10
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