Music Video Analyses

Music video analyses

Twenty one pilots: Stressed Out

This video is an amplification of the lyrics and the key theme in the song where they talk about how they are told to grow up and are stressed out now they are older with lyrics such as “wish we could turn back time… when our mama sang us to sleep but now we’re stressed out ”. This is accompanied by visuals showing them doing childlike things with the Mise en scene, such as riding tricycles and drinking Capri Suns which are stereotypes of what children do. The whole video is synaesthesia of being a child, with the Mise en scene and lyrics reminding people of what it was like being a child compared to now. The video also has a chronological, linear narrative with sections of performance for the chorus; giving more variety to what the viewer is seeing with part storyline, part of the band performing. The bridge is also disjunctive with the abstract scene of them in a white room in bed surrounded by family and friends. The performance setting is the same in the chorus apart from the last chorus and the bridge.

 

 

Fall Out boy: Irresistible    

This video is a Disjuncture video with the video having no resemblance to the lyrics, however the powerful, victorious mood is sort of similar to the mood created by the song. The lyrics talk about how a girl is “Irresistible” and how she always hurts him with “I love the way you hurt me” whilst the video is of a basketball game that the band are losing but feel like everyone is rooting for them. The video is intertextuality with the multitude of references to internet pop culture such as memes and vines which are relatable and popular to everyone who is active on the internet. The video has a strong chronological narrative which follows Toderov’s theory of equilibrium and disequilibrium where they have equilibrium which they lose and fix and achieve a new sense of equilibrium. There is only narrative with no performance in this video but the narrative is good enough that it needs no performance.

 

 

P!ATD: I write sins not tragedies  

This video is illustrative with the video follows exactly what the lyrics say, such as them being at a wedding with the lyrics “pacing the pews of a church corridor” and people crashing the wedding with “I chime in haven’t you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door”. Whilst the visuals are quite abstract and exciting they still illustrate the lyrics with the setting of a wedding, and the people in costumes of suits and dresses. The story again has a strong chronological, linear narrative which is narrative overlaid with the singer performing throughout the wedding whilst it continues undisrupted by him. It again follows Toderov’s theory of equilibrium and disequilibrium with the equilibrium being the man being wed to his wife which is disrupted by the singer and then his wife to be kissing someone else which finds him at his new

equilibrium of being who the singer is.