Recommended Music Videos Textual Analysis 2

From this recommended music videos from my class, I have seen and hear what other members of my class listen to and their taste in music.

Three recommended music videos that I have picked out from this recommended music videos playlist was the following artist/group which have a different way of producing and showing their music video for their song than each other.

The following artist/group of artist I have chosen to do a textual analysis on:

- Blink 182 with All The Small Things.

- Snap with I've Got The Power.

- Nalepa with Monday (The apple tree feat The Glitchmob)

Blink 182

In this music video of Blink 182, there is plenty of close ups and mid shots of the band, as this shows to the audience their cultural image of the 'pop' boy band and their style of their music videos for their songs. This is an example of a mid shot of Blink 182, that shows they leaving from their private aeroplane and walking to the set in which there are girls cheering them on. This informs the music audience of their cultural image that they are a 'pop' boy band, who are very popular and have money to buy what they want to buy for themselves such as buying a private aeroplane to get to place to place.

Blink 182 dresses in a casual clothing for this music video which implies to the audience that they dresses in a casual, cool 'pop' boy band style. However in this music video there are a some camera shots of them dressing up a bit oddly on the set of their music video. This would imply to the audience that they are having fun on their set for the music video as they are doing something different with their music video than being the same as other music artist's music videos of the time.

As they are trying to promote themselves as well as trying to keep their music video in audiences' heads as they will remember the main singer of the band only wearing a pair of white pants after the mid shot of him and his other band members leaving their private aeroplane to the set of their music video.

Snap

In this music video for Snap with 'I've Got The Power' there is also plenty of camera shots of the artist singing from close ups and mid shots of him. Also there is some close ups, mid shots and long shots of the black male dancers dancing to the beat and the chorography of the music video. This suggests to the audience that Snap has used a 'performance' style for his music video as he has used black male dancers to dance to the beat of 'I've Got The Power' with him singing the song. However the audience can say that there is a narrative to Snap's music video as he is playing the role of a leader like a country leader, who telling his country that they are strong and great.

Furthermore the artist has been represented in the music video as a positive role model of a country leader as he is singing on a stand to the audience. Also Snap is dressed in a formal suit that implies that he is powerful and a strong role model of a country's leader, but the lightning of the music video is a bit dark and flashy; this could suggest that Snap is singing that there is bad days but there's good days as the flash could be a symbol for the change from bad to good days.

The audience of the music video would see that Snap is acting to be a country leader as he is inspiring the audience and telling them that they are strong and they can do anything in the world to show their personality.








Napela


In this music video for Napela's Monday song, there isn't no close ups or any camera shots of the main artist who sings this song. As in this music video there is clips from different genres of films such as Transformers 2 , 300 and Tron, this has created a strong narrative-like performance style for this music video and matches with what is being song in the lyrics for 'Monday (The Apple Tree)'.

This would create a different narrative to the music video as the music video will be seen to be more an action music video than an official music video by the artist. Furthermore this would have a bigger impact to the number of views of this music video for 'Monday (The Apple Tree)' than the number of views of the official music video for the song.