Music videos with a storyline

**Janszoon** · 11-06-2011, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Doom Drew

When I was younger I remember seeing this on TV and actually this music video got me into Ween.
Though, this song was a bit misleading as to what Ween's music would be like.

Haha, except for "Push the Little Daisies" I don't think I've ever seen a Ween video before!

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Here's a personal favorite of mine. It's one of my favorite videos of the aughts by one of my favorite bands of the aughts (Kill Me Tomorrow) for one of my favorite songs of the aughts ("Xerox My Hand") off of one of my favorite albums of the aughts:

Windy · 11-06-2011, 11:30 PM

I like music videos with storylines, too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR1ttVCvi_M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQK37KWf4x8

ARASH feat Helena- Broken Angel (Official Video) - YouTube

Zaqarbal · 11-10-2011, 02:18 AM

Paul McCartney: Pipes of Peace (1983, storyline based on real events). Arctic Monkeys: Fluorescent Adolescent (2007).

Alizée: Moi Lolita (2000; lyrics translated here). Mürfila: Azul y gris ("Blue and Gray", 2010; see lyrics' translation here).

Regarding Azul y gris, as I explained in another thread there's a "poetic connection" between song and video: Song, through a female voice (Mürfila), says: "without you, / people ask me / what day did I die. / And I answer them: / when you decided to go from here". At videoclip, the boy dies and the girl decides to go away, which apparently is the opposite thing. But if you see it as a metaphor, it's not. It's the same thing: Sometimes, a person is no longer the same, when the beloved disappears from his/her life (for several possible reasons). So, in a way, we could say that he/she dies as a certain personality. And the association between death and leaving is a classic topic in Western literature (and art in general). At a popular level too. In fact, dead people are called "the departed".

OBK: Lucifer (2003, video by J.A. Bayona, The Orphanage's director). Pet Shop Boys: Domino Dancing (1988).

Lucifer

(chorus)

♫ "Y no me quieres ni ver................You don't even want to see me
y no lo puedo entender..................and I can't understand why.
Si alguna vez has llorado.......................If you have ever cried,
sé que no es por mi amor.....................I'm sure it wasn't because of my love.

Anoche ví a Lucifer.......................Last night I met Lucifer
y al alba bailé con él.............................and at the crack of dawn I danced with him.
Ahora sé que a su lado.........................Now I know that next to him
va gente como yo...........................there are people like me." ♫

Zaqarbal · 11-10-2011, 10:54 AM

From Sexy Sadie (one of my favourite indie bands): A Brand New World and Someone Like You. The latter is about prejudices. Film director Isabel Coixet was entrusted with making the corresponding video. Song talks about "subservient people" living a "subsonic life" in these "subsonic times". So, in order to make a "visual equivalence", Coixet highlights what there is beyond physical appearance. That is, she tries to show the "subvisual".

sopsych · 11-11-2011, 12:41 PM

I can't believe I forgot this one. It should have been a hit.

Marilyn Martin - Night Moves - YouTube

11-10-2011, 02:18 AM	#23 (permalink)
Zaqarbal Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Spain Posts: 824	Paul McCartney: Pipes of Peace (1983, storyline based on real events). Arctic Monkeys: Fluorescent Adolescent (2007). Alizée: Moi Lolita (2000; lyrics translated here). Mürfila: Azul y gris ("Blue and Gray", 2010; see lyrics' translation here). Regarding Azul y gris, as I explained in another thread there's a "poetic connection" between song and video: Song, through a female voice (Mürfila), says: "without you, / people ask me / what day did I die. / And I answer them: / when you decided* to go from here". At videoclip, the boy dies* and the girl decides to go away, which apparently is the opposite thing. But if you see it as a metaphor, it's not. It's the same thing: Sometimes, a person is no longer the same, when the beloved disappears from his/her life (for several possible reasons). So, in a way, we could say that he/she dies as a certain personality. And the association between death and leaving is a classic topic in Western literature (and art in general). At a popular level too. In fact, dead people are called "the departed". OBK: Lucifer (2003, video by J.A. Bayona, The Orphanage's director). Pet Shop Boys: Domino Dancing (1988). Lucifer (chorus) ♫ "Y no me quieres ni ver................You don't even want to see me y no lo puedo entender..................and I can't understand why. Si alguna vez has llorado.......................If you have ever cried, sé que no es por mi amor.....................I'm sure it wasn't because of my love. Anoche ví a Lucifer.......................Last night I met Lucifer y al alba bailé con él.............................and at the crack of dawn I danced with him. Ahora sé que a su lado.........................Now I know that next to him va gente como yo...........................there are people like me." ♫ __________________ "Lullabies for adults / crossed by the years / carry the flower of disappointment / tattooed in their gloomy melodies." Last edited by Zaqarbal; 11-10-2011 at 03:37 AM. Reason: Minor correction (just a word and a link).

11-10-2011, 10:54 AM	#24 (permalink)
Zaqarbal Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Spain Posts: 824	From Sexy Sadie (one of my favourite indie bands): A Brand New World and Someone Like You. The latter is about prejudices. Film director Isabel Coixet was entrusted with making the corresponding video. Song talks about "subservient people" living a "subsonic life" in these "subsonic times". So, in order to make a "visual equivalence", Coixet highlights what there is beyond physical appearance. That is, she tries to show the "subvisual". __________________ "Lullabies for adults / crossed by the years / carry the flower of disappointment / tattooed in their gloomy melodies."

11-06-2011, 11:30 PM	#22 (permalink)
Windy Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: HK Posts: 52	I like music videos with storylines, too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR1ttVCvi_M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQK37KWf4x8 ARASH feat Helena- Broken Angel (Official Video) - YouTube

11-11-2011, 12:41 PM	#25 (permalink)
sopsych Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: indoors Posts: 722	I can't believe I forgot this one. It should have been a hit. Marilyn Martin - Night Moves - YouTube