Here he is talking about meeting a girl and deeply falling in love with her in  a way he does not control, but the video and the lyrics were set in a figurative sense. The video shows him in a hospital setting as a crazy guy. The girl playing a nurse holding a huge syringe as to really "mess him up." Towards the end of the video and at some brief moments inside the video it was clear what the lyrics meant. Even though this is one traditional way of speaking of love, the video clip here tried to show that figurative way of talking about love in image and video.

Hozier - Take Me To Church

Hozier's song, Take Me To Church", is itself a metaphor comparing religion to love. The music video chronicles the murder of a homosexual man in Russia. The video serves as a representation of the underlying meaning of the song which is a criticism of the way homosexuality is viewed in religion. In this representation the story told by the visual representation develops throughout the song. Elements of the story do not necessarily match up with the lyrics, but ultimately tell a story that figuratively represents the lyrics. This is an interesting approach because often times a visual representation closely represents lyrics whether it be literally or figuratively. This approach builds suspense through visuals and the audio complements the video well as it adds intensity to the representation. This all builds into a fever pitch at the end of the song as the murder occurs. At the conclusion of the song the viewer is left with the full picture of the representation. I feel that this technique can be good and bad. This technique effectively communicates the underlying message while also leaving the viewer to wonder the stories relevance while listening to the song until the very end. Depending on the story being told elements of this representation may be appropriate or could be easily misinterpreted.

Renegades - X Ambassadors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u-niluB8HI


The music video for Renegades by X Ambassadors represents people with physical disabilities as “pioneers, rebels and mutineers.”  The first time I listened to this song, there was no clear connection to those portrayed in the video. After viewing the video, it’s easy to see how the lyrics relate to to each person who overcame obstacles so they couldn’t be stopped from doing anything. In the most literal sense, a renegade is a person who betrays something or someone; a synonym would be a rebel. The people in this video have defied obstacles in order to make their mark, thus making them arguably rebellious.

U2-"Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhi6nNYNOxQ

The lyrics of this song can be interpreted in many ways. Some people, including me, get the feeling that Bono is talking about true love in the lyrics to this song. He says he has done all these things "only to be with you." He hasn't found what he is looking for, so maybe he hasn't found the right person? But this video departs from the meaning of the song and uses the lyrics to represent a deity, in this case the Christian God. It is a known fact among U2 fans that Bono is deeply spiritual and believes in God. The images of the church with sunlight streaming through it and St. Michael's Hospital seem to represent Bono's own spiritual search for God, not a soul mate. Although this is hinted in the written lyrics to the song (eternal angels, hands of the devil, etc) it is not by any means explicit. This video illustrates the spiritual concept with its figurative representation of the Lord.

Fluorescent Adolescence - Arctic Monkeys

This music video is pretty absurd and does not match the lyrics at all. But after further analyzing the lyrics and the title there seems to be a figurative connection between the video and the lyrics. Fluorescent adolescence means a child who, through overexposure to television, movies and music, grows up too quickly and without any substance. Later in their life they feel remorse for the childhood that they skipped over. The music video shows a bunch of men dressed as clowns getting into large brawls with men that seem to dressed normally. I believe the clowns are meant to represent the skipped childhood and they are very frustrated with the way they turned out and the fact that everyone else seems to be normal so they are taking their anger out on them. But this is still up for interpretation.

Taylor Swift - Style

Unlike the last Taylor Swift video that I posted, "Style" is full of figurative scenes as the story unfolds of a roller-coaster-like love story, where the two fall madly in love, hurt each other, and eventually get back together and begin the whole process again, even though they know it's wrong. Around the :43 mark, you begin to see flashbacks, during which they build the story of the original relationship before the breakup that you can tell has also already happened based on the morbid facial expressions and atmospheres. She describes the long time that he's been gone and appears partially naked in the video, figuratively showing the way she feels without him. She goes on to talk about him coming to pick her up and explains that they'll never go out of style, so they can keep doing whatever they'r doing. However, two aspects that I really liked were the broken glass showing them both. Even though they are both there, it will never be fully fixed after the original breaks. Also, they each hold a mirror up, in which you can see facial features of the other, which tells the audience that they'll always hold a piece of each other, no matter how skewed or broken.

Ain't It Fun

I like how in this music video, Paramore takes it upon themselves to have literal "fun" breaking world records in a lighthearted song titled "Ain't it Fun". The music simply plays in the background as they set history, but the video is true to the theme of the song. There's not much that I don't find compelling, perhaps only that they don't set any crazy records, only ones that I'm pretty sure they made up, but they became real world records nonetheless.