E.g. Vid 5: Bowling For Soup - 1985

Track: 1985
Artist: Bowling For Soup
Genre: Pop punk
Director: Frank Borin and Ryan Smith
Year Released: 2004

The video combines performance and narrative in the same scenes. The band members of Bowling For Soup feature in the video and after seeing the woman who lives across the road who is still immersed with 1985, go into their garage and play the song dressed as 80s musicians.

Bowling For Soup as Robert Palmer

The video is full of intertextual references which is postmodern. The lyrics mention a lot of 80s bands and films. When playing in the garage they reference Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love, George Michael's Faith and finally Whitesnake. The woman in the video is Tawny Kitaen who used to date the lead singer of Whitesnake and appeared in some of their music videos. When Bowling For Soup are dressed as Whitesnake, Tawny Kitaen gets on the Jaguar as she did in the video Here I Go Again. 

Jaret Reddick as George Michael

Tawny Kitaen could be there for the male gaze. There are several shots of just her body and this is mostly supported at the end of the video when she is on the car. It could be argued though that she is there for the intertextuality so is an important character in the video.

Tawny Kitaen on Jaguar

The visuals are connected to the lyrics a lot through the video. The main theme of the video is the mid 80s, which is also what the song references.

Bowling For Soup as Whitesnake

The location is a quiet neighborhood which is important to the video as the woman is meant to be a traditional housewife. This is supported by the songs lyrics and the toys and kids bikes in her garden which she is tidying up.

The video uses humour which is sometimes used in videos, most commonly in rock and pop punk videos such as in Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters.

Continuity editing is used which is a common convention of music videos. It makes it run more smoothly and allows the narrative to be easily followed.