Foo Fighters-"Learn to Fly"

In Foo Fighters music video for the song “Learn to Fly,” the band takes everyone’s worst fears of flying and uses it to make a witty, comedic music video with a lot of action packed moments. This movie has a target’s just about every American who has flown on an airplane and highlights on the endless possibilities that could go wrong while in the air. David Grohl, Foo Fighters Lead singer, plays the role of a wide variety of characters all to make a very unpleasant plane flight, seem quite bizarre. In one of his roles, he plays a very obese female passenger who is the type of person no one wants to sit next to on a plane because of her size. The music video shows the passengers awkwardness as Grohl squeezes her way to her seat. The audience can laugh at this situation, as it sometimes is an occurrence that happens while boarding a plane.

In Grohl’s other characters, his purpose was to invoke that same emotional response of laughter and surprise for the viewers of the video. He played the role of a pilot, a young girl madly in love with the band, and the role of himself (as the lead singer of the band). In his role as the pilot, Grohl ends up accidently being drugged with Cocaine that Jack Black (another character in the movie) forgets to take out of the coffee maker for the whole plane, in an attempt to smuggle drugs on the flight. This phenomenon lead to the almost near crashing that the plane underwent, until David Grohl’s true character arose—that of himself. When Grohl played himself, he was fearless, heroic and ready to save the day. Because the movie portrayed him to having those heroic traits, Grohl was able to land the plane at the end of the movie and save the day. The video was successful in making Grohl a star, something that needed to be done so that fans of the band Foo Fighters will see Grohl as a star having all of those heroic qualities in real life. The message behind the multiple characters that Grhol played was that he can be anyone, and do anything, therefore making him successful in the eyes of his audience. While the movie did go on a stretch that anything can truly happen on a plane, it does make a point that with the right mindset, anyone can be a hero and save the day!

Kanye West - Runaway (Video Version) ft. Pusha T

Although Kanye is considered by a lot of people to be a jerk, he does make really creative videos. In his music video “Runaway” his concept is not as straight forward, but his visualizes and the movement within the music video is very appealing to the audience. I know that when I watched the video, I basically paid most of my attention to the ballerinas dancing and what their movements signified. Honestly, I don’t know the reason behind their movements, but at times their movements are sharp and then it at times their movements were very fluid. Whatever the case may be, the ballerinas dancing and Kanye rapping seemed to gel perfectly. The music video is only an excerpt of a thirty minute movie that has more to do with Kanye and his love interest, The Phoenix. The phoenix just so happens to be sitting at the table in this excerpt of his movie.This music video has been raved by many critics as one of Kanye’s best and gorgeous videos he has ever created.

Here is the link to the full link video Runaway by Kanye West:
http://youtu.be/Jg5wkZ-dJXA?hd=1

Bob Sinclar - World, Hold On

The video was so cute and creative to me. In this music video, a little kid uses his toys to combat an asteroid heading towards Earth. In the beginning, the child is making a spaceship with his toys while his other toys come to life and dance, yet he doesn’t take notice. Bob Sinclar, the creator of the song, appears as a D.J using cookies as records to spin during this portion. After, the creation of the spaceship, the boy goes into outer space and destroys the asteroids with basketball. When he returns to Earth, he is greeted with accolade. His mother comes over a gives him a kiss which ultimately wakes him up from the dream. Bob Sinclair did an amazing job with the concept and correlating the concept to the lyrics. Basically, the main point of the music video is that children are the future protectors of the world.

Tighten Up-Black Keys

This video relates to so many things when growing up. Being forced to play with kids you didn't like just because your parents were friends. Everyone had to do that once in a while. This video also relates to the chase of an attractive person. Even fighting over the same person. The video eventually shows how men will digress to childish acts when in the vicinity of an attractive woman. The Black Keys did a great job of comparing the acts of men to the acts of boys. Very similar. The kids start a fight over the girl, and the parents start a fight over the mom. Having said that I think this video just had EVERYTHING! Playground fights, an attractive women, and doughnuts. Also the kids lip-syncing. It gets me every time.

Arcade Fire - The Wilderness Downtown

This next video needs the internet browser Google Chrome to work. It’s described as a “Chrome Experiment” and uses one of Google’s most innovative creations, Google Maps and Street View.



Arcade Fire has created this amazing video, utilizing tools that most bands wouldn’t think to use, such as the different mediums of viewing with Google maps and multiple windows. They even made the music more interactive by adding the drawing tool during a segment of the video. This video is a great example of connecting to the audience with their visuals. Their song, titled “The Wilderness Downtown” literally brings the wilderness, all of the animated trees, into the home town of the viewer. We’re able to reminisce, watching familiar scenery appear during the music video and are captivated by the interactive birds and trees appearing in our old neighborhoods.

Sour - Hibi no Neiro

This Japanese band rounded up a group of his fans from around the world and created this music video, filmed on each of their Macbook Pro webcams. This video would have required immense preplanning, as in each section, none of the webcam videos are cut and edited and everything is timed perfectly.



This video completely relates to this generation. With all of the crazy technology helping to globalize the world and bring people from all across the planet into each other’s bedrooms with the click of a button, every student with a laptop or cell phone understands. The message the video sends about the interconnectedness of the globe and people from all different cultures able to enjoy the same music and even make a music video from their own homes is an amazing sign of peace and long-distance community.

The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be

This music video is often described as an acid trip on many websites displaying the video. It shows the daily routines of a girl, while jumping over to her fantasy world and showing the trippy mental state she’s actually living in. The scenes are amazingly choreographed and almost no special effects are used, as actual sets, costuming and cardboard cut-outs are used to create a kaleidoscope effect in her fantasy world. Although some speculate that this song is about a crystal meth’s addiction and how it sucks, that theory hinges on a debate over one lyrical line that may or may not be about the drug. So from a more positive perspective, this video could be about how the day-to-day life can be so mundane that it makes you crazy.