Lip Sync Choices

Read My Mind – The Killers (October 2006)

I have chosen this song because it is a song that I used to listen to a lot when I was younger and also reminds me of when I went to America for the first time. I also know the song quite well and it seems like a straightforward song to lip sync.

There are various different meanings behind the song that people have developed but most commonly the meaning has come up as being about life going on even if we pause and that we need to break out of our own personal bubbles in order to see the world.

The video features the band making their way around a city in Japan. As the band is not from Japan, this is a very good way of showing the meaning of the song. This is because it makes the video more cultural as it is set in a country not generally affiliated with the band.

Hero of War – Rise Against (May 2009)

I have chosen this song because this too was a song that I used to listen to when I was younger, mainly through senior school. I also know this song well as this was one of my favourite bands for a while.

This song is about how nations see members of their armies as heroes but on the flip side they are seen as the enemy. The song runs through the process of becoming a soldier leading up to what happens on the front line. The lyrics are all backed up by the video being presented to the target audience as a narrative. The clips often run with the lyrics where what is being said in the verse is happening at the same time in the video. This represents the lyrics well and gives off the meaning of the song easily. As well as filming a narrative, there is a lot of performance footage in the video of a single artist playing guitar and singing in a similar environment to that you would find a soldier in, directly relating to the lyrics and the meaning of the video.

Linkin Park – In The End (November 2001)

I first heard this song a few years ago when I was younger and was the first song that I heard by this band. The song is about the lead singer’s struggles that he had whilst he was growing up and how problems do not matter once they are over with. This is represented by the lyrics

“In the end, it doesn’t even matter”

The video to this song does not relate to the lyrics, as it is mostly a performance video where members are in the desert. The song is aggressive which is shown by the expressions of the artist and the use of cameras to emphasize the artist.

Nickelback – How You Remind Me (August 2001)

This is a song that came from my childhood as my mum often played Nickelback songs in the car on long journeys. I know this song very well and as Nickelback were a huge band from my childhood I it suitable to use this song to lip sync.

In the music video there are a lot of performance clips, which I think are suitable for the genre as it is a rock song. The style of the artist and the way the video is filmed makes it look like the camera is from the point of view of someone in the audience of a live gig. The lighting is lower than that of videos from genres such as pop which again is suitable to the genre because the music tends to be more aggressive.

The meaning of the song is to tell the audience about a dysfunctional relationship that I think the video represents well. When the lead singer is looking directly at the camera, the camera is looking through the point of view of the female in the relationship and the lead singer is singing directly to them.  Throughout the video, the main focus is on the lead singer of the band. This is because the song is about a relationship that he has had that went wrong. The acting along with the lyrics work well together because just by watching the video you can pick up on the meaning of the song because of the way the characters act with each other and the low lighting sets the mood.