Not to Love You V's Got 2 Luv U

Today I'm not posting an analysis of a music video, instead I'll be comparing the demo version of this song with the final version of this song.

This is a a very important topic for me because I am unhappy about what happened to this song, the demo was written by singer/song writer Ryan Tedder and then the production of the song was handed over to Jamaican artist Sean Paul and Norwegian producing duo Stargate.

Almost all the lyrics and the meaning of the song were completely changed.

If you read my blog regularly you will find out that I am a big Ryan Tedder/OneRepublic fan and honestly (if you are a regular) you are probably sick really of me talking about Ryan Tedder but my problem with the lyrical adjustments isn't really about Tedder at all, my issue with this song is to do with the way in which women are portrayed in the lyrics.

I wouldn't call myself a Feminist, I'm honestly not bothered that there are more men on bank notes or that the older Disney films like snow white and the seven dwarfs or sleeping beauty are about women who wait to be rescued by men kind of feminism.

I care about the kind of feminism where women are judged by how they dress or how they act, how a women dresses or acts is often used as defense in court for rape allegations and I think that's wrong because the way a women dresses or even if a women is promiscuous it doesn't mean she wants sex with just anyone no should mean no.

Another thing that bothers me is the way women are objectified in both music and in music videos, people argue that it sells more singles but honestly there are plenty of songs that even today aren't about sex or feature naked women (or men for that matter) that sell lots of singles and even make it to number 1.

The biggest problem with this song isn't actually about the sex, I don't mind songs about sex but it's the fact that the demo was about how a women has had enough of her partner (the man sounds slightly controlling.) and the lyrics describe her breaking up with him and the song was changed into a song about how a man really wants sex with a girl and the girl is besotted with him.

I wouldn't really mind as much if it weren't for the fact the girl seemed to think the man was "the one" and the man just seems to just want sex.



I wouldn't be so bothered if say the woman sounded like she just wanted sex like the man or if the man sounded like he was in love like the woman but both people contradict the other and it sounds a little weird.
The video would also imply that he is just interested in sex by the way he watches the the pole dancers and goes off yo rooms and the multistory car park with women whilst the female singer stays in what looks like a hotel room and performs on a stage.

If you compare that song with the original demo:




If we compare some of the lyrics on the final version with the equivalent lyrics from the Demo it looks something like this :

Final version lyrics 

I, I'll do anything I could for ya
Boy you're my only
I, I'm gonna flip the script on ya
You don't even know me
Cause I, I... I don't even want to fight, fight, fight
Said I, I... I ain't even gonna fight it

If you were the sun,
Got me spinnin', in your orbit
With no where to run
Boy you got me, can't ignore it...

demo version lyrics

now i won't say its been nice to know ya
cos you don't even know me
i don't wanna spit this bill i wrote ya
and you ain't gotta owe me
because i wanna know what it's like (like, like, like)

i'm out the sun
i've been spinning in your orbit
with nowhere to run when you burn me i just ignore it


The tone of both songs are completely different, most of the verses are completely replaced, the way the woman is portrayed in the final version is so different to how she was originally portrayed, the demo sounds angry, confident and full of hate whilst in the final version she comes across as love sick.

I really want to know why the lyrics were changed so much, maybe the producers didn't want such an angry song but then if they didn't like the way it sounded why buy it?
On the subject of feminism why would you change the meaning of the females lyrics, if they wanted to add male rap to the song why did they change the female lyrics?
They made the woman sound like her purpose was to please and stoke a mans ego and that she shouldn't expect it in return.

I just really hate the message of this song when originally the message was that women shouldn't have to put up with that.

This really makes me question the whole production process after the demo was sent, they could argue the song was a feminist movement to highlight how that kind of attitude is wrong but if it was it isn't very clear and I doubt that's the case.

I would hate to think that the producers purposely changed it because they thought that it wouldn't appeal to a male audience or it won't sell singles or something like that because that would be sad.

I hope the change was to do with introducing a rapper to the song and he wrote his own rap so they changed the other lyrics to fit.

I think what happened to this song is such a shame, I think it would've been so much better if cut the rap, stuck to the demo and found a great female vocalist, What do you think? 

Do you like Got 2 Luv U? 
Did you used to like the song?
 (I'm going to be honest, I didn't particularly like or dislike the song until I heard what the demo was like.)
Maybe never liked it?
Or maybe you have a counter argument or a view you would like to share, I'm open for discussion.

Counting Crows - Accidentally in Love Video analysis

Accidentally in Love was released in 2004 and featured in the film Shrek 2.

I think I might have preferred Shrek 2 to the first Shrek film, I liked the first and second film, I wasn't so keen on the 3rd and I thought the 4th film was a little bit better than the 3rd one.

This music video isn't really so much about Shrek as it is about an anthropomorphic rabbit who steals a mans girlfriend whilst the man makes her breakfast.





The video features Ashley Roberts from the pussycat dolls as the girl and Model Steve Vanda as the man.

The video starts with the woman a sleep on the bed with "stuffed animals", the man is sitting on the end of the bed watching the sequence that uses the song  in the Shrek 2, he gets up and goes into the kitchen.

She sleeps in her knickers (underpants) and a vest, he is also in his underwear so that would imply that they had sex, I presume that they are a couple and live together.(opposed to a one night stand but I will get to that later.)

Both the man and the woman are attractive, the man is fairly muscular and the woman is curved but slim, like the old saying "sex sells" the couple are very attractive and are possibly used to sell the song to the audience.

As the man leaves enters the kitchen he does a front flip, the maneuver is clumsy and he wobbles as he lands, the landing shakes the room and knocks a frying pan on the floor.
The sound of the frying pan wakes the woman, she looks irritated and pulls a pillow out from under the "stuffed" rabbit, the rabbit falls off the bed.

I think the man is meant to appear clumsy and over confident so that the woman is given a reason to find him unattractive.

As the rabbit hits the floor he starts singing to the girl, she isn't aware of his presence, Because the song is being played on the TV she doesn't realise the rabbit is singing the lyrics.

The rabbit enters the kitchen to find the man dancing provocatively and kissing his biceps, again he is shown to clearly over confident, he also seems to prefer dancing to cooking her breakfast so he is probably the sort of person who puts things off he is however kind, considerate and romantic to try to make her breakfast, even if that breakfast isn't great.

The man tosses some sort of pan or dish over his shoulder, the noise it makes as it falls on the floor annoys the woman.

I think the man must be a dancer of some sort, maybe amateur because he's clumsy but he can perform a flip which takes some skill, on the lyrics " Turn a Little faster" he perform a full turn.
The actor clearly has some experience in dance which is being used to some extent but there is a "awkward" look to his dancing, he knocks things over and throws things, the routine looks improvised.
He seems immature too.

The rabbit starts dancing on the table and the man drinks milk from the carton, that seems a little inconsiderate seeing as (if the apartment is shared) the woman might also want the milk, he means well and we wants to please his girlfriend but unfortunately he's just a little immature.

Shrek 2 is shown to be on the TV in the kitchen too as the man tries cooking eggs but he drops them,the woman reacts to the eggs being dropped. (I can't imagine eggs being dropped would be that noticeable unless the man had reacted loudly to dropping the eggs that maybe he could've annoyed her.)

The man picks up the eggs from the floor and puts them in a mixing bowl, maybe he's slightly stupid (because cooking egg you just picked up off the floor isn't a great idea) or maybe he is a little thoughtless.

He breaks a plate, everything falls out of the cupboard and he throws flour all over the kitchen and adds some flour to a mixing bowl.
I feel a little bad for him because I'm pretty clumsy myself, I've broken countless plates and everything falls out of cupboards when I open them, I'm not as bad as him but I'm pretty bad.

I think it's sad that it irritated his girlfriend that much but at the same time I can see how a person like that can be really annoying and for some people that might be a ground breaker but then again for others it might not bother them (well not as much.)

The man makes a her a drink in a blender and fry's the batter in the mixing bowl to make pancakes, the hob burst into flames, the drink in the blender over flows and the pancake sticks to the ceiling.

I wouldn't say he was really undomesticated because he knew how to make pancakes he just made a lot of noise and a big mess, he probably doesn't cook too often so maybe that could be another thing that annoyed the girl.

As the man waits for the pancake to descend from the ceiling the rabbit returns to the bedroom and the pancake falls on the mans head.
This shows he isn't the most competent when it comes to cooking, he also seems a little oblivious because he didn't react to the pancake falling on his head right away.(it also appears he isn't aware of the rabbit's presences.)

The woman wakes up to see the rabbit whilst the man tops the pancake with whipped cream, the woman is not shocked by the rabbit being alive which would indicate she knew he was alive.

The rabbit points his thumb into the direction of the window, the woman pulls on a denim mini skirt and they leave through the window and down the fire escape.
The man returns with the breakfast to find the bedroom empty, there is a closeup of a holiday theme photo frame with an old photo of the girl an the rabbit. (taken prior to the events of he music video.)



The Photo frame suggests that the Rabbit and girl are close, I would presume the rabbit was like a childhood toy/imaginary friend of the girl and that she choose the "old friend" over the good looking (albeit dopey) man.
I do think it's a little sad, the man obviously cared about her and treated her well but he wasn't as good of a match for her.

I don't think it's meant to be taken literally, i.e the woman didn't leave her home and her boyfriend for a stuffed rabbit. It's more conceptual than that.

I think she lived together with her boyfriend because while her "stuffed" rabbit and photo were in the apartment she left the apartment with the boyfriend so it would imply it was as much his as it was hers but because she wasn't feeling the same way for the man as the man did for her she left the apartment (and probably just to get away.)

I think the message of the video is that if you don't think the person you're with is the "one" or if you think you love someone else more you should probably leave them, I know that sounds cold but I think it's better for both parties.

The rabbit was probably meant to represent an old friend who the woman realised (in particularly when the man had annoyed her despite the fact he was trying to cook for her.) that despite her boyfriends kind nature there was something about his personality that she couldn't deal with and then noticed that she really loved the one person who had been there all along.

The song's message it's self is pretty simple, it's about falling in love accidentally.
The singer didn't intend to fall in love for possible reasons for example maybe there was a third or fourth person involved in the relationship, maybe he thought the woman didn't feel the same or maybe the timing was bad.
The songs message fits the message of the first Shrek film to a T.
Shrek wasn't meant to fall in love with the princess, he was meant to rescue her for Lord Farquard.
It was put at the start of the second film to show how the couple developed, it also explains their relationship well.

The song meaning and the meaning of the video fit well, you could argue that the Rabbit didn't mean to fall in love with the girl or the girl with the rabbit because she was in a relationship.

The problem with this kind of relationship break down, the kind of break up where one person has fallen out off love with the other there is someone who hasn't fallen out of love but I do think that sometimes it's better if the relationship ends. I would rather someone dump me so I could move on opposed to staying with me out of sympathy and wasting everyone's time.

I feel a little sad now, I made myself feel sad about a man who's heart was broken by a women who fell in love with a rabbit.
I'm my own worst enemy.

I would love to know what you thought in the comments, maybe you think it means something else or have some sort of information I'm missing.
If anything silly ever made you feel a little sad (like a rabbit/man/girl love triangle) please let me know so I don't feel so crazy.

Keane - Bedshaped Video Analysis

I absolutely love Keane, if you read through my blog posts you will find out that the majority of the music I listen to is pretty similar, I like bands like OneRepublic, The Fray, Keane, Travis etc. 

(I like other music genres too so if theses bands aren't your cup of tea don't fret, I might end up analysing something you really like at some point.)

The video for Bedshaped is pretty sad and the song  is emotional too.
The single was released in 2004,the video was directed by Corin Hardy.






Tim Rice-Oxley explained the meaning of the song on their message board at: http://bb01.sov.uk.vvhp.net/keane/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=35 and on their Musical Documentary DVD Strangers.

• "bedshaped is about feeling that you've been 'left behind' by an old friend or lover. and about hoping that you'll be reunited one day so that you can live out the end of your lives together the way you started them. i guess there's some anger at a friend who wants to move on in search of new, exciting, more sophisticated things, leaving behind the simple things you used to share....and a hope that they'll eventually want to get away from the bright lights and come back home. it's a sad and angry song, but also full of hope. i hope that makes sense.
• I think i'm right in saying that in hospital when someone is ill or infirm and has to spend a lot of time in bed they can become 'bedshaped'. it sounds a bit depressing...well i guess it is a bit depressing in reality, but in the context of the song i wanted to suggest old age and frailty, along the lines that i mentioned before about two old friends coming back together in the twilight of their lives. it's great that you guys like bedshaped...it's a song that means a lot to us." - Tim - messageboard - Source
• "I remember the words for Bedshaped; lying in bed one night and they just suddenly all emerged and I wrote them all down, and then it was finished which was really good - I like it when that happens! The word 'bedshaped' - I don't know if it's a made up word, but my mum's always talking about people being bedshaped, just from spending too much time being bed-ridden basically. It's quite a sad image of someone stuck there, stuck in a bed, until they become completely useless and start to lose their humanity. But just that idea of crumbling and being really frail and decrepid is something that eventually happens to everyone. That, I guess was the basis for the song in a way. So whatever happens when you're younger, even if you go off in search of glamour and ambitious and exciting things; once you get to your really old age, you've got all that side of life that just disappears.- Tim - Strangers DVD

The video is made using stop motion animation and starts off with the silhouette of a black cat walking along the fence of a grave yard at night.

The graveyard looks very neglected, there are some rubbish bins and some of the rubbish littering the floor, the fence is made out of iron. The fence is warped and bent out of shape.

The condition of the fence would imply that the graveyard is both old and unloved, if it was visited regularly it would be in better condition. This relates back to what Tim had said about the song's meaning, regardless of what you did and how successful you were when you were young, age will catch up with you in the end and eventually as you die, everyone else who loved you also die then there is nobody left to remember you.

The graveyard is probably in this state because so much time has passed since these people have died there is no longer anyone to tend their graves.

The video is set at night and uses dark colours to illustrate the theme and mood of the video, night time is when people are at their most vulnerable because there are less people about and people feel tired late at night.

 The cat jumps off the fence and onto a cardboard box, the box starts to tremble this spooked the cat and the cat runs away.

As the drums and keyboard kick in a naked man holding a bottle emerges from the box, he takes a swig of what I presume to be alcohol. (Sleeping on the streets naked clearly isn't the kind of situation a person would like to be in, it would seems highly likely he was drinking alcohol, he also looks disheveled.)

The man is very underweight and his hair is messy so that would mean he hasn't be looking after him self properly for a long period of time, the heavy bags under his eyes, the colouration of the white's of his eyes and red over sized nose could be symptoms caused or made worse by heavy drinking.

The man wears a necklace which looks like a star.

The band appear through out the video painted in the background, a friend of the director named David Lupton hand drew 500 pictures of the band to be animated into the background.

We are shown an establishing shot of a deserted street at night.

Everything in this video has a slightly twisted dark look it, there is no one around.

The man is very lonely, like Tim explained and how the lyrics describe; the man is probably missing someone or regretting losing contact with someone who meant a lot to him.

The lyrics at this point in the video are:

"Many's the time I ran with you down

The rainy roads of our old town
Many the lives we lived in each day
And buried altogether 
Don't laugh at me
Don't look away"

He feels nostalgic about the past but accepts that those days are gone, the emptiness of the street empathize how lonely he is.

As he walks down the street he looks up into a window where the band can be seen performing watching curiously but as lights on the ground floor of the buildings light up he panics and runs, I think he is envious of the people in the houses but is scared of how they would react to a stranger staring through their window, it seems like he feels depressed about his situation.

As the man approaches a shop window he can see the image of a woman smiling under the text "On Your Own?"

At this point of the video the lyrics read as:

"Don't laugh at me
Don't look away 

You'll follow me back
With the sun in your eyes
And on your own
Bedshaped
And legs of stone"

On the line "don't look away" the woman looks away.

The lyrics are pleading the woman not to look away but she looks away regardless, because she is a figment of his imagination it means he is expecting her to look away and reject him so she does so.

The "On Your Own?" text features in the lyrics but it also acts as a way for the woman in the window to communicate, it can be seen as if she is looking out of him and seeing if he's okay or it could look like she is mocking him, because he has lost trust with people having not had anything to do with them for a while and he has confused concern with being ridiculed.

The hallucination and the way he reacts to it shows his mental state.

As he makes his way down the street he leans against the window but he can see scary faces in the windows of the shops which spooks him even more.

He is seeing things that aren't there and because he feels vulnerable everything seems scary, he sees a lit sign for the men's public toilet and crawls toward it, he's possibly drawn to he sign because it produces light which makes him feel safer than being in the dark.

on the lines:

"You'll knock on my door and up we'll go
In white light
I don't think so"

The man can still see the faces in the window behind him this scares him and he falls down the stairs into the public toilets.

The lyrics alone suggest seeing someone when you die and joining them in heaven but they doubt that they will be united and the video suggest that the man thinks it's safer in light when really he still feels just as venerable.

Both lyrics and video suggest that while they hope to find happiness by either finding light in the dark or being reunited in death they still can't guarantee they will will find happiness.

The man makes his way into a toilet cubicle and cries, he writes the lyrics on the wall as the images of the band play on the wall behind him.

 When ever the line "You'll follow me back with the sun in your eyes" from the chorus plays the background will light up, the line is usually played when the band is shown and the background simply turns from cold colours like blue, green and purple to warm colours like yellow, orange and red but when line in played while the man is in the toilet the whole set is lit with yellow lighting (up and till that point the toilet was light with dim blue lighting.)

If you compare similar shots in different lighting there is a completely different mood, things look much less scary and depressing with warmer lighting , the man looks so much more alert and happy even the graffiti is more lighthearted in the warmer shots.

As the man continues to write the lyrics on the wall. The cat from earlier crawls under the door of the mans cubicle with a bag of clothing the the phrase "there for you." written on the bag.

 The cat is showing the man a kind gesture by giving him clothes, because he was naked before he was more vulnerable by wearing clothes he feels safer and less like an outcast.

He leaves he cubicle and goes up the stairs to the street and he looks much more healthier, younger and fresher.

 It's morning now and people are sitting in a cafe eating breakfast and drinking tea when he looks at them their faces transform into the faces of monsters and he runs back into the public toilets.

While his back is turned as he runs away the people in the cafe look normal and are minding their own business this is because he distrusts people even though he feels like a better person and is more presentable (i.e clothed and healthy looking) he still can't face other people, he still feels like they hate him or judge him although in reality they haven't even acknowledged him.

Even with help he couldn't face people and get back into the real world, I suspect the cat was a hallucination as it seems very unlikely that a cat could give you a full outfit.

I suspect that the cat giving him clothes was a metaphor of him getting over a problem, because the cat introduced us to the man it's like the cat is the start of his problems, the cat coming back to give him clothes is kind of like him accepting his problems and getting better.

In the end just sorting himself out wasn't enough to help him feel better about himself or other.

When he goes back to the toilet it's more grey than blue or orange like it had been before, the lighting could demonstrate how before he was seeing the toilets as something scarier or nicer than it really was and now he sees them as how they really are or it shows how he's is no longer scared of happy about anything in particular so the lighting is neutral.

Bricks begin to fall away from the wall to reveal bright white lights, there is a flash of light before showing  a close up of the mans face being focused on, text is scrawling across his face and the lighting is clear and bright.

The focusing of the camera could represent him waking up in heaven having died.

Because the background is white and "cloudy" looking it would indicate that he died and he is now in the afterlife, the lyrics for the song float across in lines above the mans head.

The style of animation for the band is different now.

Before the band looked more like silhouettes only defined by shadows and highlights, they were also more solid and rigid looking but now they look more like out lines, their lines are broken and uneven.

The colour has changed as before they were placed on colorful backgrounds but now they are on and off-white background.

I would say the band look more "real" and rough in black and white, I suppose it's because in the colourful animation there is less detail, the lines are clearer and the images were most likely created with some form of stencil where as the black and white animation is much more detailed and looks like it was painted free hand.

As the band begins to fade away the man smiles and the video ends when the band completely fade out.

I presume the man did die, and if  he did he looked so much happier in death.

The message of the song which was pretty much explained by Tim Rice-Oxley was that when a person is ill and dying ( or just feeling sad in general) they think about people they want to see, people they became estranged to or people who died in the past who the miss and hoping to see them again in death.

The message of the music video is probably more tragic, the message is that when a person comes to the end of their lives or when their lives take a turn for the worse things can get better but some times it maybe better to die because at least you will be at peace and hopefully (if you believe in the afterlife) you will get to see all the people you miss.

I think because nobody actually knows what happens to you when you die and there are so many different theory's that lots of people like to think that when you die you get to go to heaven even though they can't grantee it they still have hope it exists.

I guess the man was happy because this meant he can now go and see the people he was missing.

I really enjoyed analysing the video for bedshaped, if you have a different theory, want to add something or noticed something I missed please let me know in the comments. 

The Fray - Love Don't Die Video Analysis

When I heard the audio video for this song on YouTube I was so excited.
I'm a big fan of The Fray and I was really looking forward to not not the video but the up and coming album.

A lot of people have said they weren't keen on this song because it didn't sound like what they had come to expect from a song by The Fray, this track has been compared to Counting Stars by OneRepublic and I can see where thy're coming form;  according to the internet OneRepublic's lead singer Ryan Tedder actually co wrote the single.

The only band I like more than The Fray is OneRepublic, I like lots of bands but by far 1R is my favorite band,  maybe the reason I like this track is because it sounds a little like a OneRepublic single whilst still sounding like The fray, maybe other fans aren't as keen because they aren't OneRepublic fans too.





The video takes place at the Cowboy Palace, Chatsworth, California. It's a redneck themed bar.
The video starts with the band entering the bar to perform, the scene is established with a shot of the outside of the bar, there are bikers out side sitting on their motor bikes.
There are placards hung up by the entrance advertising country music and BBQ's.

The bikers also look intimidating which indicates that the other people at the venue are also probably intimidating.

, The band performs on the stage behind chicken wire, the crowd seems unimpressed by the performance.

The personality of the venue is clear, the bar in this video reminds a little of the bar in the film Coyote Ugly.

Cowboy Palace, Califorina                                

Coyote Ugly Saloon, Denver (part of the Coyote Ugly bar chain

Like the bar from the film audience is made of mostly men and the people are loud and rowdy.
The decor is similar too made up of mostly wood, neon lights and flags.


The song starts slowly with just the vocals and the guitar, the crowd boo the band as the cymbals kick in and a member of the audience throws a beer bottle at the chicken wire,as it smashes the drums started playing.

The chicken wire is there for the bands protection, most likely due to the attitude of the costumers not agreeing with the acts, this either implies that they predicated the audience would react violently to the band or violence is a regular occurrence at the bar.

As the video continues the audience seems to start to enjoy the music by getting up and dancing but some people are still throwing beer bottles at the chicken wire cage, this shows how the audience is slowly starting to like the music because it takes some time for everyone to stop throwing bottles and start dancing but it also shows how hard it is to please the audience and how violent they can be.
The band also prove to be quiet brave continuing to play whilst bottles are being thrown at them.

As the first chorus ends a group of women enter the bar, at the front of the group is the actress Candice Accola (from vampire diaries) she is actually engaged to The Frays guitarist  Joe King.

Whilst at the bar watching the band perform Candice is approached by a very tall, heavy man with a bald head who tries to get her to dance with him, Joe notices the man bothering his fiance, he then puts his guitar down, leaves the stage and taps the man on the shoulder.

The man turns around and Joe punches him in the face and the man loses a tooth, the fact that Joe is much smaller than him but still had the courage to stand up to him and actually managed to do some damage to the bigger man could shown how much he loves her.
In a fight usually the bigger guy is better off, it's like love gave him strength.

That's a little cheesy though.
I doubt that's their intention but I do think that when you love someone you will put your self in danger for them and by hitting that man even though he was so much bigger than him he showed that he would protect her no matter what.

Joe gets a chair and hits the man over the back and the chair breaks apart, other men go to attack Joe but he fights them off, the rest of the band are still performing  and not getting involved in Joe's fights.
The lack of involvement is funny, they don't cheer him on or tell him to stop they just keep playing like nothings happening.
I guess it's because it's Joe's fiance so it's his fight, the rest of the band aren't going to start fighting when they don't have a reason to fight and because they don't feel the same way about Candice they aren't going to fight for her.

During the instrumental part after the second chorus other people in the bar start brawling with each other, as the next verse starts the lead singer Issac Slade is singing in through the brawling crowd, again he isn't reacting to the fighting and manages to weave around everyone and narrowly avoids getting hit himself again he doesn't have a reason to fight so he doesn't get involved.

The man from before can be seen with a woman on his back attacking him, I think this might just be included for humor but it could mean that maybe the tables have turned, the fight started because he was bothering a woman and now a woman is bothering him.

The fight is really out of control. Issac is back behind the chicken wire and people are smashing bottles and glasses over each others heads and a man was thrown and slid across the bar where a woman behind the bar bottles him, there is an air of complete chaos and if that woman was behind the bar because she worked there that would mean she just hit a costumer over the head with a bottle.

If the woman didn't work there she some how managed to get behind the bar so that would imply that the people in charge are either no longer in control or they are just as violent.

Joe is still fighting men off and the rest of the band are still performing on stage, Joe King is still very much involved in the fight and the rest of the band are still very much uninvolved until Lead guitarist Dave Welsh steps out into the fight and one of the bar brawlers scuffs his shoe so in return he hits the man with his guitar.

While this may seem funny it also demonstrates how he wouldn't join the fight for Joe or his fiance but he would for the sake of his shoes.

This goes back to the whole point that Joe is fighting for his love and the rest of the band aren't fighting because they don't feel the same about her but given something to fight about they would.

Amongst the fighting Candice grabs Joe and kisses him, this really just clarifies that they are in a relationship (I for one didn't realise they were a real life couple until I looked into it some more.) if anyone didn't know they were together and thought that maybe he was just trying to protect her out of kindness, the kiss clarifies the romantic aspect to the video which is really the message of the video.

The song's message is that no matter what happens love doesn't die, even when the person you love is no longer alive your love for them still exists and the message of the video is that love is a personal and unique thing and nobody else feels the exact same way about a person as you do.

The fact people are willing to put themselves at risk for people they love also says that love is undying and strong.

At this point the only person left on stage is the drummer Ben Wysocki who then decides to join in and jump onto a group of men.

I think this is purely for comedy and probably has no deeper meaning other than just feeling left out and wanting to join in.

It's interesting to point out that Issac is the only band member to have not hit or tired to hurt anyone through out the duration of the video.

The band run out of the Bar and jump onto some motor bikes, they didn't arrive on motor bikes so this means they stealing someone elses bikes to use as getaway vehicles.

As the band ride away on Motor bikes Issac is left with a push bike made to look like a motor bike, as he cycles off the men sitting outside on their bikes laugh.

I wonder why Issac was left with a push bike? It's clearly included for comic effect but I wonder why was Issac the one left with the push bike, he was also the only one not to get involved in the fight so maybe it's to do with that.

Maybe everyone else needed a motor bike because they had been in the fight and needed to get away quicker, maybe it was because he was in less of a hurry to get out so he got the worst bike or something.

And that's where the video ends.

I liked this video, it was funny, action packed and romantic and it was just fun to watch, I would love to hear what everyone else thought.

I know a few people weren't keen on the song so I'm wondering if maybe some people  weren't keen on the video either.

Thank you for reading.

The Vamps- Wild Heart Video Analysis

I first heard this band whilst holidaying in Blackpool with a friend. It was August but because the weather in the UK is pretty diabolical (and because we actually live much further south it was a lot colder at Blackpool than it was back home.) we were reluctant to leave the house and we ended up watching a lot of TV and Music Channels and The Vamps Can we Dance was played an awful lot.

Me and my friend fell in love with this band, my friend really likes boy bands like OneDirection anyway, she likes lots of different genres too but Boy bands aren't usually my thing but then again are The Vamps technically a Boy Band?

I think I like the fact that they are a band and not just a Boy Band, they have a lead singer, a Bass guitarist, a drummer, a regular guitarist etc opposed to just a group of singers.

Another thing I like about this band is that the boys are around my age, this doesn't happen very often even OneDirection are a little bit older than me, the youngest member of OneDirection is a year older than me and the youngest member of The Vamps is a year younger than me, I also think they sound pretty good.

The Video for Wild Heart was uploaded to YouTube on the 3rd of December 2013 and is their second single.

This Music Video is pretty straight forward and not too complicated. (I've Blogged about OneRepublic and Fall Out Boy Music Videos before and they can be quite complicated.)

Music Videos can either follow a narrative or just explore a concept and just because a certain video follows a narrative doesn't mean it's going to have any less or any more meaning and symbolism than a more conceptual Video, for example The Music Video for Single Ladies by Beyonce doesn't follow a narrative but there isn't as much symbolism as the Music Video for telephone by  Lady Gaga ft Beyonce.

(I might explain this concept in greater detail .at a later date.)  

Any way my point is that this video has a story and it starts at an old petrol station, (or a gas station, depends where you're from) the petrol station looks like it's in a dessert and I presume that the dessert is some where in the US, they use a Wide Pan shot moving from a shot of the dessert to a shot of the petrol station to establish the setting.

A bell hanging from the porch rings in the wind and you can hear the sound of an engine starting, I think they use the bell to show that the petrol station is some where really remote; the sound of the bell is very clear and if it had been some where busy you would be able to hear other noises like people talking and cars driving past so the fact the bell sounds clear indicates they are some where really quiet.

The sound of the engine shows (obviously) that some one is there and they are either visiting or leaving the petrol station, a man in dirty overalls sits on a chair on the porch.
The mans appearance and attitude implies that he doesn't get visitors often as he doesn't have much money and doesn't really know how to react to costumers also implying that the video is set some where really remote.

The sound of the engine starts and the bands drummer Tristan runs out of the shop with food, you can hear the sound of the vehicle leaving and Tristan calls for the vehicle implying he got left behind.
He calls them "guys" so that implies that he is talking to the other band members, he drops the food and runs after it.
The vehicle  is revealed to be a bus and the band are on board.
I'm not sure why they decided to not show the bus or the band from the beginning, I guess it adds a level of mystery to the video but I'm not to sure why you would want mystery to begin with.

As the band perform on the bus  they come across 3 people by the roadside trying to fix a car,  pretty teenage girl who looks a little fed up , a teenage boy sitting back in the car relaxing (possibly the girls boyfriend, maybe her brother) and a middle aged man who's trying to fix the car (he could a dad to one or both the of the teens.)

The band invite her on the bus and she leaves her boyfriend/brother father/boyfriends father at the road side.
Even if she had fallen out with the people she was traveling with doesn't necessarily  mean you should just go and leave them for a group of strangers, surely they were heading somewhere in particular any way so why would you go off with some one going some where else? besides I presume she had a home to go back to and if she went off with some strangers in the middle of no where how is she going to get back home?

I don't suppose you're meant to think about the video quite like that, I guess the main point is that the girl was fed up with who she was with and decided to go off with people who seemed more fun, this is kind of the message in the lyrics too
"She needs a wild heart,

I got a wild heart" 

The lyrics would imply that the people in the car didn't have a "wild heart" like the girl, I guess having  "wild heart" could mean she likes excitement and that the band can supply her with excitement.

I do feel a little bad for the people left by the road side however.

The band (now traveling with the girl) come a cross a boy and a girl at the roadside trying to hitch a ride in which the band let them on, the video cuts to the band performing at night at the petrol station, the people they have picked up can be seen dancing.

Back on the bus they begin to mess around and throw things at each other, I'm a teenage girl and I can honestly say that I know tons of people my age who throw things at one another, this is something I don't understand but none the less I think they are just being themselves and goofing around.
If the girl left the people she was with to have more fun with The Vamps I guess she got her wish.
I noticed that the girl isn't really taking part in the hitting the band with pillows or jumping around although I'm not sure I would enjoy watching boys hitting each other either but you would think she would look a little more involved considering she choose to join the bus and left her old group because they were supposedly uninteresting.

It must be awkward sitting on a bus with people you don't know especially when they all seem really close, maybe she doesn't want to throw things at people or jump around a bus because she's more mature or something.

The bus is now being followed by a red car with two girls in it, as the video has progressed they have gained more and  more people, there were already a few in the bus with the band to begin with, then the girl joined them, then the couple and now the two girls in the car.

There is a slightly weird scene in which the band get off the bus. To pee. Together.
I accept that if you were on a long road trip you would need to pee at some point but why would you all need to pee at the same time?
And what about the girls on the bus? Where do they pee?
I guess it shows that they are relaxed and comfortable enough to pee together.
But even so it is a little bit weird especially for a music video.

The number of people dancing at the petrol station gig has increased, It's a little bit like the bus.
As the music video progresses more people join or follow the bus and as the video progresses more people turn up to the gig.

It's interesting to note that during both the gig and on the bus the lead singer (Brad) directs his attention to the first girl they picked up by the road side whilst the rest of the band don't, each member does have a girl dancing by them but they aren't really paying any attention to them while brad is singing directly to his girl, maybe it's because it's hard to concentrate on a person and play an instrument at the same time.

The video ends with the video cutting between the petrol station performance and the band running off into the dessert.

I think the ending is a little odd, there's no climax. The video started with the band was leaving a petrol station, they give the impression that they are heading some where, they picked up some people on the way only to go back at night to the petrol station they left earlier for a late night gig.
I don't know what I was expecting, I guess I was hoping that they would find a city or town and have a gig there instead.

I think the video started really well but I didn't like the end. Sorry.
I just think they could've had more a more definite ending, it just felt like the video could just keep on going and it didn't feel like it had a proper ending.

I really like this song and this band, I'm just not keen on the video.

I've made some changes.

I've decided to change the layout and purpose of this blog.

When I made this blog I decided it would be about all things entertainment, I would talk about Video games Films, TV shows, Music Videos but I usually end up analysing Music videos and cartoons so I decided it would be better off as a Music Video specific blog.

I find it so much easier to talk about Music Videos to be honest, I guess there is just so much to talk about in such a short film (and I tend to explain things in great detail.) I might create a separate blog in the future where I could review and analyse cartoons but for now I think I will stick with Music Videos, it might change again in the future. Who knows.

All the old stuff is staying, (don't worry if you want to go back and read the non Music Video related posts) but this does mean that I won't be reviewing or analysing anything else for the foreseeable future.

I would love to hear your opinions, What do you want me to do?
Is there a Music Video you want me to watch?
Would you like me to make a separate blog for cartoons?
What do you think of the layout and theme?

It would really help me out because if your the ones reading my blog that would make you my audience and nobody knows what the audience would like more than the actual audience.

Also let me know if you're having any issues with the site.

Fall Out Boy - Where Did The Party Go

The video for Fall Out Boy's Where Did The Party Go was released and the first thing I want to mention is the fact that the video is just titled as "Fall Out Boy - Where Did The Party Go" on YouTube and doesn't have "part 7 of 11", I'm just wondering if there is a reason for this.
Maybe there isn't a reason for not including the videos order in the sequence but I just don't understand why they wouldn't number it because surely they would want people to see the previous videos if they haven't done so already.
Maybe this is one of those things that will make sense later.



I really wasn't expecting this. I was expecting this song, I just wasn't expecting this to happen in the video but I'll get to what happened in a minute.
When a new music video from Fall Out Boy's album Save Rock and Roll is released I write a Blog entry analysing it, There is an ongoing story called the Young Blood Chronicles and I've written Blog entries for each of them.
If you look back at the previous blog entries you will see that some interesting points are made in the comments so be sure to read the comments, any way someone in the comments for the last video predicted this song so well done to him.

This video starts where the last video left off with Foxes turning on the tape, Patrick Stumps eyes turning Yellow and then he goes on to chasing the rest of the band into Linda Vista hospital.

As the music starts we are given a brief montage of specific hospital shots like an oxygen tank, a tap and some x-rays of feet before moving on to a disco ball spinning, the band name and song title are shown in pink typography.
This sets the scene for the video which is subsequently in a hospital and the disco ball hints to the song title, again the situation clearly seems to be a set up because they revealed the name of the hospital to be "Linda Vista Community Hospital" which if you look it up is a hospital that is no longer in use and is known for paranormal activities and is used as a set for films and music videos and even if you didn't know the history you can clearly see that the hospital is empty (other wise there would be people working, visiting or staying there.) but for some reason there are x-ray photo's, the power is turned on, the door is open and there is still equipment and there are wheel chairs and beds lying around so someone wanted them to end up there. ( As I mentioned from the previous video Blog post someone wanted them to end up there because some one wanted Foxes to drive the band there is the first place.)

Andy, Joe and Pete run through the hospital reception and into a corridor with blinking lights trying to find a room to hide in , the trio begin banging on the door in an attempt to get into the rooms.
In this Scene there are 2 things that stole my attention, 1 being the clock spray painted on the wall.
The "clock" has a musical note in the center with a line through it.

I've been thinking about this could this mean there is "no time for music"? that is the most logical meaning and this makes sense as someone seems to be Kidnapping, using and killing musicians. So far we've seen 2 Chainz, Fall Out Boy, Big Sean and Foxes and we're yet to see Courtney Love and Elton John so maybe the theory that Courtney is the baddie behind this wrong? maybe she will be a victim too seeing as she is also a musician? And if she is evil why would a musician "have no time for music"? Or why would anyone want to kidnap, use and kill people? what's their goal? who knows.

Another thing I noticed was that the band were trying to get into different rooms some of the doors were locked and some where open which makes me think that who ever is behind this wanted them to go into certain rooms like maybe there was something in these rooms that could be used to kill them or they are to block escape routes, The only thing that I don't think when to the antagonists plan was when Big Sean escaped, killed the creepy little boy and turned Patrick's tape off  in The Mighty Fall.

As Patrick walks through he can see a slickly looking woman at the desk sitting in a golden spotlight in a darkened room, when in reality the room is fairly bright with blue lighting and there is no one at the desk.
I don't suppose anyone really knows what the women did to Patrick in the Alone Together Video to make him react like this when he hears that tape so I'm not sure if he's meant to be hallucinating or whether he is actually seeing ghosts of dead patients and I guess both are plausible seeing as the hospital is known for it's paranormal happening and that Patrick must be hallucinating to some extent to want to kill his band mates.

The different lighting probably indicates that he hallucinating.

Joe find an operating Theatre with X-rays of feet on the wall , Andy finds what looks like a store room and Pete seems to find what looks like either a check up room or another store room.

As Patrick walks down the corridor he can see yellow disco lights so for him it looks like he's at a party whilst for everyone else they are running around this big empty hospital trying to hide from a killer, the lighting is interesting as for the other band members the experience is terrifying and everything has a blue tinge, everything seems really clinical and dark whilst for Patrick everything is probably darker and more mysterious but there are flashes of colour dancing around the room, despite the fact that the hospital looks more inviting for Patrick than the rest of the band he still looks angry and frustrated.

The lyrics whilst describing a what sounds like an interesting wild party and it sounds like fun
 "And all the boys are smoking menthols
Girls are getting back rub"

It sounds like people are having fun but maybe not Patrick himself

"My old aches become new again
My old friends become exes again

Woah where did the party go?
We were ending it on the phone
I'm not gonna go home alone
Where, where did the party go?"

It sounds like he is enjoying himself but not in the same way the other party goers are, the lines "My old friends become exes again" and "I'm not gonna go home alone" could be seen as both bad and good situations to be in, the prospect of some sort of sexual action is got to be positive but the fact that he seems to want it so bad probably isn't that great and then in the end everyone leaves and nothing happened , I get the impression that although it's a good party he wasn't in a good place to begin with, if the Young Blood Chronicles are meant to represent a part in the Fall Out Boy hiatus I guess this would be the part where you are still famous but no longer successful.
Your still invited to all the cool parties but nobody is really interested in you, you're not really all the happy either so you're struggling to enjoy it.

 Maybe that's why Patrick looks so angry despite being at a party.


The Trio look around the rooms they have ended up in whilst Patrick searches the Corridor, in the party lights he see's slickly woman in a hospital gown in a wheel chair but when the lights go back to blue the wheel chair is empty, The fact that they are in a hospital and Patrick can see sick people that aren't there makes it
seem like they could be ghosts as it would logical that sick people would've died in the hospital then that theory contradicts it's self when he walks into an autopsy room and he can see a woman in a "sexy nurse" outfit and a male in a a high school sports jacket.

The room is lit with pink disco lights, possibly to symbolise "rose tinted glasses" when you see things in a nicer more romantic way than they really are.
The male walks out the room and the nurse starts giving Patrick some kind of lap dance.

 I think the Nurse could represent how some women (and men) will give a person sexual attention and act like they care when they don't and just want them for personal gain, because she's a nurse and nurses care for people but she isn't really a nurse she just looks like she's role playing, the boy who was in the room with her had just left so she has now moved on to Patrick so she is probably using him to make her self feel better or to make the other man jealous.

Or maybe because the video is set in a hospital they can exploit the presence of a Sexy Nurse so they included her in the video,  I overly sure.


Mean while Andy looks into the medical supplies and pull out a bottle of what is most likely disinfectant, Joe realises he is locked in the operating Theatre room and can't get out and Pete tries using the phone only to work out it's not plugged into the landline.
Andy pours the disinfectant over a wound and lets out a scream which draw Patrick's attention and he leaves the operating theatre while Pete takes the phone to find a landline socket and plugs the phone in.

This seems like another set up, providing that Foxes was made to take the Band to Linda Vista by the antagonist and that the people behind the kidnapping, using and killing actually locked the doors inside the hospital that they didn't want anyone entering wouldn't it seem weird that they left the room with the internet cables and the land line sockets open? they could have even taken away the all the phones too so something tells me that who ever is behind this wanted them to use the phone.

I'm not sure why because if they wanted to recapture the band they could have just ambushed them in the hospital or gone to the hospital and captured them. I think it's like I said before in previous Blog entry, they are teasing the band, letting them get away and let them think they are safe just to be recaptured and/or tortured again, they let Pete find and use the phone, they let Andy clean his wounds but they Trapped Joe in the X-ray room.

Patrick enters a ward, for Patrick the ward is dark and lit up with green Disco lights, the green lighting could represent sickness maybe, the fact that the nicer warmer colours like yellow and pink are no longer being used could show a change in mood.
The room is  filled with people with sick people dancing whilst again in reality everything is a grey-ish blue.
There are different people in the ward, there is a man in and orange visibility coat wearing a hard hat sitting in one of the beds and an old man in a hospital gown with a zimmer frame.

This makes me think they're ghosts because obviously old people are a lot weaker and it wouldn't be too hard to believe that old people could've died at hospital, the same with the man in the hard hat if he was working in construction he could've had an accident and then died in hospital, the only problem is that there seems to be nurses and doctors present (note how different the nurse and doctor are to the "Sexy Nurse") and it seems unlikely that doctors and nurses would die in hospital so that could imply that they aren't ghosts and that Patrick is hallucinating.

The Sexy Nurse is present in this scene along with many other sick looking  people and the male in the sports jacket, again it is plausible that he could be a ghost or a hallucination.
He seems to fit the popular kid archetype at the party who is interested in the "pretty girl" the Sexy Nurse who he seems to be with in a lot of shots.

Whilst Patrick is in the ward, Pete Phones the Police and Joe is still stuck in the operating Theatre.
The people in the ward could be ghosts because the patients at least All seem to be either injured and wounded or sickly and wearing hospital gowns. There is also a little girl on the ward receiving a balloon animal.
If the patients are ghosts which would make sense seeing as Linda Vista is known for hauntings and everyone there looks pretty sickly then why are there Doctors and nurses, they wouldn't have died in the hospital besides they don't look very sickly (I'm not counting the Sexy Nurse as an actual nurse).
If they were meant to be ghosts why have a doctor and nurse, why include them if everyone was a ghost and they weren't so this makes me think they are Hallucinations.

Patrick spots Joe through a window and makes his way over to Joe's room, as Patrick walks down the corridor he can see flashing red lights and all the sick people are dancing along behind him and Joe hides in a cupboard, the red could symbolise danger.

As Patrick comes to the door it reads "operating theater" he opens it easily.
I have some questions:
 If the hospital is abandoned why are there X-ray' in the operating Theatre , if the hospital is disused why would there still be X-rays?

The X-rays are of what looks like the torso and some other body part I don't really recognize, Maybe they are meant to be Patrick's X-rays, they took out his organs so maybe they wanted to see what he looked  like but then what is the other X-ray of?

An secondly how come Joe couldn't open the door but Patrick opened it with ease?
was it some kind of special door that couldn't be opened from the inside? Or did some one lock him in and then unlock the door before Patrick got there?

We are shown shots of Andy and Pete reacting to the commotion, and as Patrick closes in on Joe we are shown a shot of the phone on the floor to reveal that Pete has finished phoning the police.

Patrick pulls Joe out of of the cupboard as Pete and Andy make their way to the Operating Theatre, Joe finds some kind of cable to fight Patrick off but Patrick pins him to the operating table.

The light on the operating table turns into a Disco ball as Patrick collapses.
It's interesting to note that the light in the corridor is green as Andy and Pete enter the Operating Theatre when it was dark when Patrick entered however the corridor had a slightly greeney-blue tinge before he reached the room.

When the music stopped his Patrick's eyes faded from yellow to his natural colour and Pete, Patrick and Andy stood in horror as the police sirens began to sound and it was revealed that Patrick had killed Joe.

There seems to be an connection between music and the change in Patrick's eyes and his behavior, the tape seems to be a stimulus but he didn't change back until the song stopped so maybe there is more to this than just the tape, come to think of it a musician becomes violent/evil when music starts then that isn't great for them career wise.

Foxes eyes also changed in the "just one yesterday" video just as the track ended and as for 2 chainz in the "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark" video he was wearing sung glasses so his eyes could have changed too so if the antagonist "has no time for music" what better way of getting rid of it than killing off artists or making them become violent/evil at the sound of music?
 That's my theory but then that could potentially debunk the theory that Courtney love is behind this.

I also don't think the police are going to be very helpful, I think the remaining members of Fall Out Boy will either run away or that the police will take them back to the musician kidnappers.

I also think the next song will be Death Valley, it could be Miss Missing You but I have a theory they might leave that for the last video as a sort of epilogue.

 "Sometimes before it gets better,
The darkness gets bigger,
The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger"

The lyrics sound like they are looking back and remembering "before it gets better the darkness gets bigger" implies that they have been through the "darkness" because it sounds like they are talking from experience.
The lines:
 "Now you're gone, but I'll be okay.
Your hot whiskey eyes have fanned the flame."
To me this sounds like it's describing Patrick's yellow eyes, alternatively this song could be next and the lyrics could be referring to how they miss Joe.

I doubt Saving Rock and Roll or Rat A Tat will be next but who knows, we only have 4 songs left so we're going to find out sooner.