2. Calvin-lyrics
The lyrics in Calvin Harris's song 'sweet nothing' is about a man who has
lost his partner though we don't know by what circumstances, and it
shows how his life is hard and difficult and how he is trying to cope
when she sings 'I’m tired of hope, with nothing to hold' which is a
powerful lyric as it shows how depressed the man obviously is because
he is tired of hoping to find someone when he has nothing or no one to
hold through the pain of trying to.
3. Calvin-Music
Sweet nothing is an example of a dance/pop music song which calvin is
famous for producing as he is known worldwide for creating.
4. Calvin-Mise en scene
In this genre of music which is dance/pop, usually the emphasis is
focused on cars and women, which is usually what Calvin Harris does
focus on. but in this video he only focuses on women in a strip club and
a broken down relationship and the man after it and how he is coping
with it. There is a dark tone of lighting throughout and that is to
reinforce how dark the theme is. there is minimal props. there is few
costume variants used, the man is dressed in a gold chain and ragged
clothes to suggest that he doesnt care about his clothing and how he
looks because he has lost someone he loves.
5. Calvin-Intertextuality
In this music video Harris is drawing attention to how some people lives
are difficult and how love is a difficult and almost depressing thing
sometimes as it can be so easily lost and once you lose it your life can
become sad and you can make the wrong decisions.
6. Calvin-performance
Some artists use either narratives or performance or a mixture, avicii
always uses a narrative because he is a DJ and doesnt sing so it makes
more sense to him as an artist to create exciting music videos for people
to watch to keep them listening to the song as they would become
bored watching a DJ isn't exciting
whereas Harris does sometimes perform as he is a singer also so he can
vary his videos.
7. Calvin-voyeurism
There is minimal voyeurism throughout this video other than when we
are in the strip club where there are women dancing in outfits, this is
voyeurism as we shouldn't be able to see this in a music video but we
can which entices viewers as they are curious as to why and what will
happen.
8. Calvin-context
Throughout the video Harris has been trying to show a break down in a
man's life and how everything is going wrong for him and that it has all
been because he lost a women he loved that maybe didn't love him.
