Examples of Music Videos

This is The Black Eyed Peas hit single "Where is the Love?". This is telling a narrative while also promoting a cause PEACE. The narrative is that people are putting question mark stickers everywhere the connotation here is to ask the question "Why?". The message being shown is that there is something wrong with society and people are ignoring the issue. The audience can see how dysfunctional the police have become when they are arresting one of the band members and give him a ticket for running, it shows that everyone is on edge. They also have children and young adults lip syncing the song to show sympathy for those children. The audience is more wide ranged because of the fact that it was relevant to everyone, and this incident(9/11) not only affected the average person but it affected the artists too showing empathy towards them.

This is a single from the recording artist Eminem called "No Love" featuring rapper Lil Wayne. This song is about oppression and how to rise above it, the video opens up with a shot of kid walking to school,  the camera then cuts to Lil Wayne who is not present with the kid, there is just smoke and black background behind him, all the while he is rapping there is a constant cutting to the kid then to Lil Wayne just before he is about to say something powerful. The narrative continues when the kid eventually gets to school he is being bullied by older kids. He then goes home to which he has Eminem's wallpaper and posters in his room, then listens to an Eminem, which coincidentally coincides with his verse and Eminem is at two positions throughout the video he is both at his studio and the black background. This eventually makes the kid get revenge for what they(the bullies) did to him, he confronts them and fights them to which the fight is exaggerated. This appeals to people who understand the subject material, and can empathize with the protagonist(Kid), and fans of Hip-Hop and Eminem alike.

This is a single by the recording artist Lil Wayne entitled "Mirror" featuring Musician Bruno Mars. The narrative that is being told through this song is being described by Lil Wayne reminiscing on significant parts of his life. He opens up with trying to with painting something, the audience knows nothing of what he is painting, this in result hooks the audience into watching the rest of the video to find out what he ends up painting. The editing is really significant in this video because the splashes of paint turns out to be Bruno Mars singing the chorus and he is on the other side of the painting. The music video as a whole portrays Lil Wayne as a creativity person and feeds into his success over the past 5 years.