Andrew Goodwin's Theory

'Music videos are just an extension of the lyrics'. Andrew Goodwin believes there are three different views on this. The first is that some music videos have absolutely no correlation to the lyrics of the song, for example Fatboy Slim's song 'Praise him'. The lyrics are about how far him and a girl have come and basically how he should respect and 'praise' her for what she does, however the lyrics do not tie in with what the music video is that they have created. It is just a load of random people dancing. Some artists may choose to do this to create publicity for their songs.

Then some music videos take what the lyrics are saying and interpret them into their own way such as Katy Perry's song part of me. In the music video she catches her boyfriend flirting with other girls and joins the army which suggests she's a fighter etc. This is a metaphorical interpretation of the song lyric because it is not literal and it is not of no correllation. Metaphorical interpretations usually include a mixture of performance and narrative shots.

However people also take the lyrics literally and everything the lyrics say the performer does. Also Taylor Swift's song 'Love Story' which I analysed previously. Everything the lyrics say relates to what is happening on screen and in the music video, another example of a song which does this is Cyndi Lauper's song 'Girls just want to have fun'.