Music Video Analysis Hussein Hudda

The music video starts off in a remote desert. With the performers signing, this shows a utopian experience as they have two nice cars and seem to be enjoying themselves. The camera angle shown of the two cars in an Ariel shot, this can enhance the idea that they are alone.

They then meet a pretty girl who is with an ugly older man, this shows the typical representation of women; that they are pretty and cant take care of them self, the two performers look at the woman so they get kicked out of the restaurant she is in by her boyfriend. The camera angle of the woman is an extreme close up which shows her facial features, we can see she is wearing makeup but at the same time she is naturally pretty, this shows that she is vein and showing off her body to the two men while serving them. This identifies with Laura Mulvey’s ‘Male Gaze Theory’, that women in the media are portrayed in a provocative and sexual manner aimed primarily at a male audience.

One of the performer then takes the girl in the car and the two men race with her. This again relates back to the utopian theory as they are care-free and having fun with no one to tell them to slow down or not have fun. The way the woman is standing and what she is wearing is very provocative as her stomach is showing as well as her upper legs, she is also revealing her body shape and holding her hands up in a care free way, this is how women are usually represented in the media ; as sexual beings for a male audience.

Towards the end of the narrative the woman gets into the car of her boyfriend and leaves the two men behind. This shows she was just playing around with the men for fun. This portrays her as a care free person who is very vein as she made two men chase after her even though she wanted to go back to her boyfriend at the end. This is a stereotypical representation of women; that they are vein.

Here, the woman is the centre of the image, making the audience look at her legs, this shows her as a sexual being who is made to look at by a male audience.

This image shows the man is driving and the woman is standing and enjoying the drive. The man is driving has he is portrayed as the care-taker, the woman cant handle to drive or take care of herself so she sits in the passenger seat as women are portrayed as inferior to men.

The next image shows the three people walking along the train track, the woman is walking in the middle, between the two men, this symbolises that she is being protected by the men which is a stereotypical representation of women, that they need to be protected by men.

This image shows the woman is now leaning on the car in a provocative way which entices the male audience to gaze at her, as Laura Mulvey suggested the ‘male gaze’. This is enhanced by the fact that she is wearing a short skirt and and a short sleeve t shirt.

They then meet a pretty girl who is with an ugly older man, this shows the typical representation of women; that they are pretty and cant take care of them self, the two performers look at the woman so they get kicked out of the restaurant she is in by her boyfriend.

This image shows an entirely new girl who has not been seen before, she looks at the men and twirls her hair, the two men then look at each other and the narrative ends. This could mean that women are juts objects that come and go from men's lives and they have to real value, they are just nice to look at.