Summer Blog post 5

In the music video Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith-La La the music video tells a story to the viewers rather than performing on a stage at a concert to as the video is based on a old folks tale similar to the wizard of oz. The music video itself is very strange to some if they have no understanding of Bolivian stories. The story plays along with the lyrics itself to keep in line with the story adding emotion to the music video. The camera movements shown sync up with the emotions shown from the factors in it, such as zooming in to the main characters faces such as the angry father figure at the start it zooms in to his house to show his anger. It does this again when the man is in the gym and he realizes he is a free to leave it does a close up to his face showing him smiling this connotes his happiness.

The song itself is rather childless which does make sense seeing as that it is a children's story that the music video is based on, and that the main actor in the video is a child. To others this video could be very creepy and disturbing without a little insight into the background of it. The lyrics especially this specific part:
"When you spit your venom, keep it shut I hate it, When you hiss and preach About your new messiah 'cause your theories catch fire"
This shows the adult part of the song but it almost contradicts itself as it uses the very childish action of covering your ears and saying "la la la" which seems to conflict between who the song it aimed for but it does this cleverly as it shows men performing the action and basically gives off the message that even a child understands that not everything everyone says is true and that you have to listen the way the lyrics are written is in a very playful way regardless of the unrealistic acting.

The music video is very upbeat in the song despite the video being rather dark at the very beginning and at the very end, the happiness comes from the happiness distributed from the child to others in the music video it keeps itself together and makes you feel emotional about the leaving of the child at the end but if you understood the story you would understand the reasons behind this and that its still a happy song regardless.