Music videos with a powerful message:
I have always loved the idea of really powerful music videos with a strong message behind them. They seem to be the music videos that stand out the most an leave people thinking about them for a long time after wards. The messages are generally based around a specific topic and how that topic effects people. - e.g, Homophobia, Racisism, Sexism, Rape etc. And that how I came up with the idea to base my music video around Alcoholism and the effects it has on people and the people around them.Two very powerful music videos that stand out to me are Hoziers 'take me to church', and Lady Gaga's 'Till it happens to you'.
In the music video take me to church, the powerful message is about homophobia. At the beginning of the music video you see a man burying a box with chains around it, which could be a metaphor signifying a secret, which to him is his hidden sexuality. He is burying it because he doesn't want anyone to find out about it otherwise there would be consequences. And at the end of the music video his box is dug up by the wrong people, opened and burned, which means his secret is out and and his happiness is destroyed, because even though he wanted to keep his secret hidden it made him happy and he didn't want to get rid of it.
Lady Gaga's music video "Til it happens to you" is a very powerful music video about the very serious issue of rape in College and University campuses.There are moments in this music video that are quite explicit causing all of us in the class rom watching to be taken back and really shocked. The music video stuck in our minds for a long time after and discussed the topic for a while, which I hope to do with my music video.
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