Exploring Redundancy and Entropy in Music Videos: 3

 

David Gray: This Years Love

 

 

Redundancy

The music denotes a sad and lonely feeling at the start of the video; therefore, the audience would expect to visualise something that amplified the meaning being conveyed. Although there are no lyrics yet, this scene supports Goodwin's Theory as the image illustrates the music.

• The video also shows a lot of performance footage which is common for this genre of music.

Entropy

 

The image of the cloud looks fake which is unusual for a genre of music like this - usually this genre would connote realism; however, there is an element of concept material in this part. It also creates a juxtaposition with the background as the sky looks like a perfect blue, whereas there is just one rain cloud hovering over a man. It is not something that we would expect.

 

There is disjuncture as the lyrics "Won't you kiss me" don't correspond with the visual imagery. The image is of a man looking at paper - if we just read the lyrics we would imagine a woman to be in the picture, but their isn't.

There is an entropic element of the artist playing a very small piano in public. We would not predict that the artist would be playing a small piano, nor the fact that he is playing it outside in the rain. The lyrics illustrate other scenes as it seems the artist is acting as a narrator to a story, however, there is disjuncture here as it doesn't make sense for him to be isolated if he is telling the story of others.