The song tells the story of a man who is waiting alone at a bar for friends to arrive at a club. As he waits, constantly checking his phone, he grows increasingly drunk and anxious about where his friends are and why they are late. He suspects they are being held up by a girl one of his friends is seeing, and he grows more conscious of his surroundings. The song has an unconventional structure where the chorus comes in at relevant points in the story rather than following a typical verse-chorus pattern. It uses the artist's thoughts and rhetorical questions to help the listener understand and relate to the situation and feelings of being let down by friends.
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Song deconstruction
1. The plot of the song that I chose to do the music video is about the main
character planning on meeting his friends at a club and he spends the duration of
the song waiting at the bar for them constantly checking his phone wondering
where they are but is getting drunk as the story carry’s on making him feel
conscious of what is going on, whilst everything else is going on around him
getting on with there nights whilst he is still waiting. He is being let down by his
friend over a girl which he is seeing which I believe the main character is
interested as it is made clear in the video.
The song is laid out differently to the mainstream style of song where there
would be a verse then chorus then back to another verse and so on and so forth,
this songs chorus which is the part where they will say “and I’m thinking” which
leads off to the a female singer either singing “Lights are blinding my eyes”
followed by “People pushing by then walking off into to the night” after a couple
more verses. But the verses in between are never the same because it tells a
story to the audience so the so-called chorus section comes in at relevant parts
but it can be expected after the artist says “and I’m thinking…” which is
emphasized just before the ‘chorus’ is sung.
During the song the artist is asking rhetorical questions to the listeners making
them think deeper into the story actually questioning where the people he is
waiting for are or subconsciously asking himself why he is doing these things
that he is doing. The style of the song is the artists thought which he is
subconsciously thinking because of the situation that he is in but he is making it
relevant and understandable because a lot of people can relate to the situation
that he is in at that point. The artist/main character makes it obvious that he is
conscious of his surroundings due to the lyrics of the chorus and because he is
looking out for his friends he is constantly on the look out for them which means
he notices a lot of everything else around him.
The style in which this rapper uses is on beat but more spoken word like poems
instead of rapping which tells a story in most of his songs, im guessing from
previous experiences but they have a start and come to a conclusion at the end
which leaves the listener with a purpose to listen to it, the content interests
them.
The artist comes across as stressed in this song he cannot stop thinking about
where his friends over and his conscious takes over making him irrational which
is clear in the way he is speaking constantly questioning and picking up on small
things people do such as the bar lady not serving him quick enough. The way the
artist comes across makes you (as the audience) sympathies with his situation
wondering if they are going to turn up or what they are doing, why are they
avoiding him. You almost want them to turn up so that song changes to better
vybe.