Black Hole Sun

Estranged thinking and craziness usually occurs in extreme heat, and this is one major point that the band Soundgarden made in their music video for the song “Black Hole Sun.” This video was voted on Groupthink.com for being one of the weirder videos for the 90s, and they were right to label it as such. In the video, the audience is easily able to relate to the mental overload that occurs when in the presence of extreme heat. The characters in this video were meant to look abnormally crazy and insane all because of the “sun’s” wretched power. The reason for depicting the characters as abnormal was to put the focus of the video on the song’s title: “Black Hole Sun.” In this mysterious entity, everything that’s normal and mainstream is sucked out of the lives of the characters in the movie making them as crazy as they seemed. The audience can laugh at this video, especially if they know what it is like to be in extremely high temperatures. In a real life occurrence, our minds truly do go crazy as out blood boils thin, and tempers and personalities drastically change. While the video is obviously an exaggeration of what really does happen when were hot, it is still something to laugh at, which was the videos overall purpose.