9 Music Video Analysis

       
1. Some of the music videos I watched were either, funny, weird, cool, shocking or "controversial". I thought all of the videos I watched were great. It was mostly my first time watching the music videos, but i have listened to the songs before.

2. I considered "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails, and "Heart Shaped Box" by Nirvana works of art because both music videos are considered "controversial"; because in Heart Shaped Box, there's a little girl that wears a Ku Klux Klan outfit, an old man who crucifies himself and unborn fetuses hanging from tree branches. In the Closer music video, there's a monkey on a cross, there are multiple frames of a naked woman, Reznor, (Nine Inch Nails frontman) wearing an S&M mask and leather gloves as he hangs from shackles, and a pig's head spinning on some kind of machine. I classify this as art because art doesn't have a definition. Art has messages and is supposed to make you feel emotions. It's also supposed to make you think about what's going on. Art can be anything.

3. Most of the music videos through the decades that I watched had pretty much the same lighting and picture. I think that's because most of the videos were filmed in the 90's and the 2000's, when the technology wasn't that good.

4. The Arcade Fire video compares to the earlier decades because because it's a modern video but it has some of the quality of the videos from the decades. For example, the lighting was dimmed really dark when the boy was running. That usually shows age in a video, which can also be deceiving. It also compares to the other videos because they band, Arcade Fire has a unique musical style and sound, makes them sound like an Indie Rock group from the decades.

I have included the music videos that i mentioned below:


Nirvana Heart Shaped Box 1993

Nine Inch Nails Closer

Arcade Fire We Used To Wait