Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera- Moves Like Jagger.
The song is introduced by a whistle melody and light, funky guitar in the key of B minor. Adam Levine tries his best to impress his female interest with dance moves like Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger: "I don't need to try to control you / Look into my eyes and I'll own you / With the moves like Jagger / I got the moves like Jagger / I got the mooooooves like Jagger." Aguilera appears mid-way through the song's bridge, playing her role as a tease: "You want to know how to make me smile / Take control, own me just for the night / But if I share my secret / You gonna have to keep it / Nobody else can see this." The shots in this music video are mostly mid-shots and long shots to show the people dancing around. Since it doesn't really have a complicated story line, everything is only simply set on a stage, where Adam Lavine does his best to impress women by dancing to Mick Jagger's moves. There are many quick shots to be found in this music video, to show the different moves each dancer makes. I have chosen to analyze this music video, since Maroon 5 are a well known pop-rock band, and they're music videos happen to follow all the right codes and conventions a pop-rock music video needs. The costumes in this music video are very much the 80's style.Avril Lavigne- Girlfriend.
It features two girls: one with glasses and red hair (Lavigne), and one with a rebellious persona and black hair (also Lavigne). The video begins inside the building where the red-haired girl and her boyfriend are walking together. Lavigne sees her and shows her an intimidating disposition. As the couple walk away, Lavigne begins to sing the song and tries her luck on the red-haired girl's boyfriend. Featured in the video are scenes of Lavigne fighting over the man with the red-haired girl and trying to outdo her repeatedly. Between the scenes we see Lavigne, now with pink streaked blonde hair, singing with her band accompanying her at the back. The video also featured Lavigne and her friends dancing in a restroom. After the starting scene, the video shows them at Li'l Indy, where they ride go-carts. Here, Lavigne is seen viciously bumping the car of the red-haired girl, causing her to spin around and lose control. Next, the red-haired girl and her boyfriend get inside a photo booth where Lavigne hears them and grabs the red-haired girl away before they take pictures. Lavigne's friends then block the red-haired girl's way to give her more time.
The next scene shows the couple eating together, where Lavigne sees them, throws the food away and kisses the red-haired girl's boyfriend. It is nighttime when the next scene was shown. This scene takes place in a miniature golf course where the couple are playing, and the red-haired girl cheerfully wins.
Unfortunately for her, Lavigne and her friends are also present at the scene. As soon as she and her friends see them, Lavigne hits her in the head with a golf ball, and the red-haired girl splashes down below and into the water. Her boyfriend tries to grab her hand but misses. Finally, the last scene shows the man waiting for Lavigne. As she comes toward him, they soon hold hands together, and the red-haired girl sees them and tries to seize Lavigne (at the same time trying to get her boyfriend back). But Lavigne ducks down and the man moves sideways as soon as the red-haired girl charges towards Lavigne. She then tumbles all the way down and falls into a Porta Potty ahead, where she gives a look of desperation towards the camera, showing that she has failed to win back her boyfriend. Lavigne then finally wins the youth's affections. The video ends when she takes her new boyfriend into a bathroom stall and slightly opens the door after a moment and pumps her arm in victory. The narrative of this music video works very well with the lyrics of this song, and with the performance shots. The performance shots mainly consist of Avril and a band with guitars and drum kits singing and dancing with her dancers in a pink Punk style studio room. The costumes for this music video are quite Rock style mainly black, pink and white.
Avril Lavigne- My Happy Ending.
Avril Lavigne- My Happy Ending.
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This video is about a relationship between Avril and her 'boyfriend' (in the video) that doesn't seem to work out, and the hardest thing about it is saying goodbye to all the memories and every other good thing that happened between them. The performance shots of this video consist of Avril singing at what it looks like to be a very old cinema. The costumes are very simple, teenage casual. In her performance shots she wears a black simple top, with black leggings and a pink tutu-skirt on top of it with big black boots, at the end of the video where she sings with the band she wears the same top, but this time with black knee length trousers, black stripped socks and All Star Converse trainers. The video begins with Lavigne running down a street and entering a cinema, where she finds the film playing is a montage of her memories concerning a specific relationship she had. At first, the memories (shown in full color) are happy, depicting Lavigne at the park with her boyfriend, as he hands her a flower and they laugh together. They are also shown goofing off inside a laundromat. However, as Lavigne sings "so much for my happy ending", the memories start to lose color. Lavigne and her boyfriend lie in bed together, as she looks at him and he (obviously reeling from a disagreement) stares blankly away. The relationship culminates during the song's bridge inside a grocery store, where the boyfriend antagonizes Lavigne, insisting that he talk to her. He grabs her and tries to pull her into his embrace. Fed up, Lavigne turns and pushes him away. She proceeds to run out of the grocery store and down the street (from the beginning of the video), and to a guitar shop where she grabs a guitar and walks to the roof of the building, where she is seen performing with her band. There, she walks past the unapologetic boyfriend without looking at him. The theater film tears and the memories end, leaving the final seconds of the video as a close-up on Lavigne in the theater as she tries to decide if the break-up is happy after all. In the end, three other girls leave with Lavigne who know about the breakup as they watch from the restaurant.
