Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Literal Music Videos

We spent a lesson looking at videos which have been made into parodies/spoofs through people making literal versions of them. A literal video is either when everything in the video reflects the lyrics of the song or when the words of a song match everything in the video.
For example, 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' by Bonnie Tyler is probably one of the most random videos I have ever seen and doesn't seem to have very much relevance or any type of link to the song lyrics, so when somebody created the literal spoof version, the strangest lyrics ever were created and a whole new song with a total different meaning and feel was created (even though it didn't actually make sense!)
Although lots of music videos have some literal aspects in them, I have never seen one that makes a serious video which is literal because it's just unrealistic and the song ends up having no real meaning.

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