Black Keys anaysis

1. Alex Inkster

2. Concept/Narrative
The narrative of this song is about loving someone when they are
young and they don’t know what they are doing, they aren’t prepared
but they when they are older, they are more mature but they still love
the same person and they would do anything to get them.

3. Genre characteristics
This music video contains elements of many rock elements such as a guitar
solo as well as the style of the video, and the narrative of the video. This shows
that this song would be classed as rock due to the instruments as well as the
narrative of the song as it is about love which is usually used within this genre
of music.

4. Relationship between lyrics and
visuals
There is a scene in the video where the lyrics are talking about falling in love
with a girl, and in the video the boy is talking to the girl at the playground
indicating that he is falling in love with her. There is also another link
between the lyrics and the visuals as there is a scene where the lyrics at “I
was young” and there is a shot of the two boys fighting. There is also a
change in the lyrics when we see the older woman, as they say “living just to
keep going, going just to be sane” which shows the change in maturity.

5. Relationship between music
and visuals
There is a link between the music and the video for example during the
video the scenes that are focusing on the children are more upbeat but
when it is focused on the adult it is more slower which might have been
done to shows the change from childhood to adulthood.

6. Are there close ups of the
artists and star image motifs?
In this music video there are some close ups of the artists when they
aren’t playing an instrument as well as when they are playing an
instrument. I couldn’t fin any star image motifs in the video though,
however the only thing that could be considered Is the type of clothing
that they are wearing as one is wearing a leather jacket and the other is
wearing a shirt which could be seen as the tar motif.

7. Is there reference to the notion
of looking?
In the music video there are some notions to looking for example there
is several shots of a woman being portrayed in a particular way. This
shot shows a woman being portrayed as a flirtatious person, which is
iconic to most rock music videos and lyrics within a song.

8. Are the examples of intertextual
references?
I couldn't’t find any intertextual references within the music video
however you could say that the narrative of the music video could be
generic of a love story as both the artists are trying to get the girl near
the end of the video, and this is usual in some love stories.

9. Is the video category illustration,
amplification or contradicting? How much
of each?
I think that this music video goes into the illustration category as this song
is based about finding love and being loved, and this video has a lot of
references to this theme. For example both the two boys and the two artists
are trying to get love form someone. And this shows that there are scenes
that are illustrated from the lyrics, this shows that the music video is linked
towards the song.