Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics.
Alternative Hip-Hop. Tattoos. Fashionable expensive clothes. Graffiti spray paint.
There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals. The lyrics are represented with images.
'You're looking at me but i'm looking through you'
'Through my rise and fall, you've been my only friend'
'I see the scars that remain'
There is a relationship between music and visuals. The tone and atmosphere of the visual reflects that of the music.
With a sung portion by Bruno Mars, himself a subject of some strong opinions, this song examines Weezy’s past relationship with drugs and where it could lead him in the future.
The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work.
Close up of Lil Wayne
Close up of Bruno Mars
There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, mirrors, stages, etc)
Screen within a screen.
Stage
There are often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos etc).
Jesus on a cross with blood dripping from hands (nail through hand)
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