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