analysis

1. The Streets Music Video:
Don’t mug yourself
• Star representation
• Visuals match up with
lyrics and music.
• Structure, speed and
beat of the song are
represented visually –
through variations in
chorus and verse
footage, or cut to the
beat.

2. • Use of Star image – Mike
Skinner on the right (singer,
rapper and producer). Kano
on the left (Grime artist)
speaking and featuring
alongside for benefits of
publicity to both of them.
Kano is featured in the song
giving mike advice about
the girl, which is the chorus
• “Hold it down boy, your
head's getting blurred. I
know you can't stop
thinking of her. By all means
you can vibe with this girl.
But just don't mug yourself,
that's all don't mug
yourself!”
Star Image

3. • Voyeurism does apply in this music video, the
lyrics are about a girl who is rarely seen except
for an image of her made of salt as he is trying
to remember her, then we have a flashback to
when they met with Mike Skinner still lip
syncing.
• However, the seductiveness of the girl is
purposely downplayed and rarely shown to add
to her mystery. This is a contrast to the theory
of voyeurism, along side he chorus dictating