Textual Analysis.

2. There is a relationship between music and visuals within this video. For example at the
beginning the speed of the beat is slow therefore the camera movements match this by
zooming and moving around my artist slowly.The visuals also match the slow beat at the
beginning by showing the artist Marina posing in subtle ways and moving quite slowly.
The beginning s mainly close up shots of Marina pulling facial expressions slowly and
moving her head slowly. An example of this is how she slowly pedals on a bike in a graceful
and slow manner. These example are shown to the right. After the first part of the song
when the beat kicks in the visuals cut very quickly to the beat showing a mixture of mid
shots and close ups of the artist.
The beat is very fast nearing the end of the song when
there is an instrumental section before the final chorus is
sung.This is matched by visuals as the video is edited to
appear sped up. An example of this is when there is sped
up shots of Marina travelling in a car and going through
a car wash.This makes the song more engaging to the
audience and creates more suspense for when the beat
really kicks in and Marina begins singing the chorus for
the final time. When the beat drops and the music
becomes even faster there are many short clips of
Marina spinning and moving around fast.This matches
the visuals and shows her having fun within the video.
These examples are shown to the right.

3. The majority of this music video is performance based
with shots of Marina lip syncing.There are scenes where
she is dancing or posing without lip syncing but it is mostly
of her performing the song and lip syncing.The lyrics don’t
match the visuals other than showing her lip syncing as
there isn’t a clear narrative to the video other than
showing Marina’s style as an artist.There are vague links
sometimes between the lyrics and visuals such as when it
says “beauty queen” there is a shot of Marina posing
dressed in a glamourous pink dress. (This is shown to the
right)This matches the typical image of a beauty queen
that the audience would have. Marina is trying to portray
in an artistic way, a girl that gets everything she wants
which is the meaning behind the song. She is able to do
this by just showing close-up shots of her acting
glamorous and therefore it wasn’t really necessary for the
video to have much of a narrative.