Goodbye my lover by James Blunt - analysis

1. Goodbye my Lover
James Blunt

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3. 1
• The video starts with the artist sat on the bed
on his own singing the song. He has a
sad/depressed facial expression which suits
the mood of the song.

4. 2
• The second screenshot is of an empty room.
There is a lot of white colours indicating purity
and in terms of how the video is portraying
the story, it represents a memory of when
things were perfect or better than they are
now.

5. 3
• This represents another memory, this scene is
when the two people sit opposite ends of the
bed staring at each other and then proceed to
start hugging etc.
• The way the video is being shown is that
James Blunt lost this girl, and he is recalling
memories of when they were together and
everything seemed perfect.

6. 4
• This relates back to the white room scene, this
gives the audience an almost before and after
effect.
• The artist is showing this to represent the
devastation and how badly things ended. He used
a natural disaster or abandonment look in this
scene, for example seeing the perfect white room
and then seeing the same room run down, dirty
and destroyed makes the audience think of
something like before and after the devastation
of something like a tsunami.

7. 5 & 6
• The last two screenshots show the artist and
the actress laying alone in separate beds, The
woman is still in this white dress in the white
room, whereas James Blunt is laying in the
‘after’ room from the before and after effect.
This indicates that the woman is still in his
memory and that’s where she stays, so as
much as he feels sad and depressed shell
always only be a memory.