Indie Music Video Analysis

The Metros - 'Talk About It'

'Talk About It' is more of a concept/performance music video than a narrative video, which features performance in terms of the lead singer singing the words, and also a 'story-line' where the band run through the streets of a town the whole way through the video. A lot of the video is filmed in long shots and medium long shots of the band running, however, there are images occasionally of the lead singer dancing or singing, these tend to be medium close ups, where the audience gets a closer and more personal identification with the singer and the lyrics.

The lead singer is the main focus of the video, the other band members are shown also, and all are wearing different clothes and so do not blend in together, however the lead singer is given the most focus and there are lots of shots of him by himself singing, or standing in front of the other band members, this supports Goodwin's theory that there is a demand on the record company for lots of close-ups of the lead vocalist. The band's clothing is very important as it presents the image of the band. Their clothing consists of suit jackets, shirts, bow ties, skinny legged jeans and trousers and big chains; it presents their image as 'geek chique' and the idea that being a 'geek' is fashionable and 'cool'.

The lyrics do not relate to the visuals of the video, and so by Goodwin's Theory it is contradicting this aspect. However, there are points in the video where it illustrates Goodwin's Theory in the way that there is a relationship between the music and the visuals. At one point in the video there is a break in the music, at which point the band members jump in the air and are frozen for the second that the music breaks, and then the movement is continued when the music comes back in.