With over 29 million views on YouTube, this is one of the most famous music videos of the Indie genre. Bitter Sweet Symphony is the 1st track on The Verves 1997 album Urban Hymes.The video follows the storyline of a man (the lead singer) down one long street. Throughout, it expresses a lot of emotions and by watching the video several times, I have interpreted it as the man is walking through society and being rejected because he cannot change to suite how society wants him to be. The emotion on his face is very statically fierce and this could be because he 'Can't change his mould', which is a lyric in the song. This is supported by the dark colours in the video which darken his face and especially his eyes.
The location is very important to the storyline of the video. The location is one straight path and it is followed constantly throughout. This represents that the path cannot be changed by the main character in the video which is denoted even further by the arrogance he shows as he does not move out of the way for people even cars. He passes a variety of different people but they can be catorgorise in a certain group. They seem quite low/middle class and because of this, it can be interpreted as he is sad and depressed with his place in society and would like to be richer and more important.
The performance is shown only by the lyrics sang by the lead singer and the other members of the band are not included. This connotes that the video is not about the performance of the song at all but just the entirely about the meaning of the song as the lyrics are the only 'instrument' in the video.
Old, worn and mostly lower class clothing appears in the video and the main character is wearing black and a leather jacket. The leather jacket connotes the main character to be strong and aggressive, as leather jackets are associated with male motor bikers and motorbike gangs. The old worn out clothing of the other people in the video express the lower class feel of the video even further.
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This is a good start but again needs a bit more detail. You location ideas are good. I like the interpretation but perhaps there is more description you could use. This is not just any street. What is the street like? Why is it like that?
ReplyDeleteA few more screen shots again would be good. If you can bring this closer to the level of your first video analysis then you will have a good piece of work.