responses to music videos in class

Britney Spears: Till the World Ends

This music video is pretty much all about how people should focus on the present and shouldn’t be afraid of the future. At the beginning of the music video, the scene is set on the date December 21^st, 2012, which is related to how people believe that the world will end in year 2012. In that beginning scene, there are people running to a manhole trying to get down to the underground, which seems to be the safest place on Earth. As the song goes on, you can see how people underground just dance and totally forgot about what is going on on the surface, and in the end, the sun just shows up, and people start to go back on the surface again. The last scene in which people surface again seems to deliver a message saying that everything will be just fine, so there is nothing to be afraid about the future.

Devo : Whip It

First of all, I have to say that I have never heard of the song nor the band before, but I could say that they have enough confidence to do something out of box, which I think, seems to be something pretty normal in the music industry, in the U.S. during that time period. This music video did a good job on showing the band’s confidence and courage. The music video starts with a random guy with weird red helmet shows up with a whip. Throughout the music video, whip represents the courage, as it is something that can be used to tame vicious animals like lions or bears. Besides the whip, other stuffs that goes on in music video such as that lady with bad eyesight shooting a gun, a woman hit a guy in the rear or people cheering on a man and a woman making love , also represents the courage to do something without caring what other people think. Just like the song’s name, “whip it”, the music videos try to say that you should not be afraid about what other people think and just do it.

Blake Shelton : Honey Bee

Blake Shelton is someone who could represent country music, which should be the type of music that is simple, and talks about life experience that the artist goes through. In his music video, “Honey Bee”, Blake Shelton, sings about country love. Honey in the music video represents the sweetness and innocence of the people in the country who just falls in love for the first time. The scenes in music video are set in bright, sunshine, town in the countryside represent happiness in which people just satisfy with what they have. The way in which Blake try to impress the girl is very simple and naïve. This shows the honesty, one of the characteristics of most people in a small towns, in the country.