The third music video I looked at is Just Dance by Lady Gaga.
'Just Dance' is taken off Lady Gaga's debut album 'The Fame'. 'Just Dance' features Colby O'Donis. It was released on the 8th April 2008 by Interscope/CherryTreee record label. The song has a dance-pop music genre. The music video for 'Just Dance' is directed by Melina Matsoukas.
The song is about being drunk at a house party, the video shows this. In the video a house party is going and everyone at the party seems to be stumbling about. The lyrics also represent the narrative, for example 'What's going on the floor? I love this record baby but I can't see straight anymore. Keep it cool, what's the name of this club? I can't remember but it's alright'. The lyrics show that the artist is drunk at a house party and doesn't know where she is.
The song starts off with the lyric 'red one' which is often mistaken for 'red wine', but it actually refers to the producer of the track, Red One.
From watching this music video, the audience get the feeling that everyone in this video is on sexual display. All the people featured in this music video are shown dancing around provocatively at a party. The artist is shown in an scantily clad costume, at one point she is shown in a small swimming pool playing with an inflated killer whale.
This music video has inter textual references, for example throughout the video and on the single cover, the artist is shown with a blue lightening-bolt sticker across her face. Which is a tribute to her music idol David Bowie. When the video starts up, a close up shot of Lady Gaga with a blue lightening-bolt sticker across her face, again a tribute to David Bowie
This video is mainly narrative-based and the lyrics represent the narrative.
'Just Dance' is taken off Lady Gaga's debut album 'The Fame'. 'Just Dance' features Colby O'Donis. It was released on the 8th April 2008 by Interscope/CherryTreee record label. The song has a dance-pop music genre. The music video for 'Just Dance' is directed by Melina Matsoukas.
The song is about being drunk at a house party, the video shows this. In the video a house party is going and everyone at the party seems to be stumbling about. The lyrics also represent the narrative, for example 'What's going on the floor? I love this record baby but I can't see straight anymore. Keep it cool, what's the name of this club? I can't remember but it's alright'. The lyrics show that the artist is drunk at a house party and doesn't know where she is.
The song starts off with the lyric 'red one' which is often mistaken for 'red wine', but it actually refers to the producer of the track, Red One.
From watching this music video, the audience get the feeling that everyone in this video is on sexual display. All the people featured in this music video are shown dancing around provocatively at a party. The artist is shown in an scantily clad costume, at one point she is shown in a small swimming pool playing with an inflated killer whale.
This music video has inter textual references, for example throughout the video and on the single cover, the artist is shown with a blue lightening-bolt sticker across her face. Which is a tribute to her music idol David Bowie. When the video starts up, a close up shot of Lady Gaga with a blue lightening-bolt sticker across her face, again a tribute to David Bowie
This video is mainly narrative-based and the lyrics represent the narrative.
The conventions of the Just Dance video are;
the video is both narrative and performance based. The lyrics are represented within the narrative, the lyrics give the impression that the artist is intoxicated at a house party and the narrative of the video shows this. Both the artist and the extras in the video perform a dance routine within the video.
There is a notion of looking within the video as again just like in the Bad Romance video the extras and the artist all wear revealing costumes at different points in the music video.
Again, this video gives the audience virostic pleasure as the audience can watch the artist without the audience actually knowing their being watched.
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