Artist's Intertextuality In Music Videos

Madonna/Marlyn Monroe:

• Material Link
• 60’s/50’s film style
• Icon of beauty
• Expensive look/ extravagance

Beastie Boys/American Cop Dramas:

• Spoof of the tv shows
• Big bold titles
• Narrative around what would happen in the shows

Robbie Williams/The Joker/Kiss:

• Make up
• Costumes
• Contrasting pop and rock, bit of a parody
• Mise-en-scene is very similar
• Helped lose boy band imagine from Take That

REM/News channels:

• Critical parody, showing what is wrong with the news
• Editing speeds up with the song in verse ect.
• Shots you would see on the news.

Red Hot Chili Peppers/GTA:

• References to popular culture and video games
• Criticising how Americans’ have perceived there lives

Eminem/Comic books:

• Mocking American culture
• Trying to be as controversial as possible
• Batman as black guy

Blur/Clockwork Orange:

• Costume
• Setting
• Make-up
• Controversial, ‘arty’ – intellectual
• Lyrical links

Oasis/Billy Liar:

• Kitchen sink drama, about a guy who works at the funeral
• Oasis parodied it
• Props are the same
• Style of the other video
• Linking to the idea of class, represent the band

Illustration, Amplification and Disjuncture

Illustration –     This is the simplest and easiest concept to base a music video around as it is just a literal meaning to the song’s lyrics in visual form.



Amplification – Amplification shares certain aspects with disjuncture, however, videos that use amplification tend to have some link with the song and work to try and emphasise the ideas rather than completely straying from the meaning. Music videos that use amplification are usually used an effective way to promote the band in the video, as well as using visuals to create strong ‘amplified links’ to their song’s lyrics.  

Disjuncture – Videos that use disjuncture basically set out to create a completely different set of meanings for the song, this is done through abstract images, these images have no relevance to the song or message within the lyrics.