Odds Are Music Video Analysis

1. Odds Are by
Barenaked
Ladies
MUSIC VIDEO ANALYSIS

2. THE SONG & BAND
The Barenaked Ladies are an alternative rock band, known for thei r
ver y upbeat and happy music. The song ‘O d d s A r e ’ continues wi th this
t rend, being about how the odds are that ever ything is going to be
al r ight .
That is what the whole song is all
about. The lyrics talk about how
many bad things but happen but
that, overall, the odds are that
everything is going to be okay no
matter what.
The music video expands on the very happy and upbeat style in
a very strange way.

3. THE VIDEO
The music video for Odds Are is ver y clever. It was definitely created
wi th comedic intent and contradicts the lyrics whi le sti l l managing to
be ver y happy and upbeat .
The music video features the
four band members as news
presenters, singing about
how everything is going to be
alright while news headlines
like ‘Meteors to strike Earth
at any moment, massive
devastation expected’
appear on screen and video
feeds come in with footage
of the world exploding and
people dying
While all this is happening, the band members
are still all very smiley and happy, singing
about how everything is going to be okay.

4. THE VIDEO
The video is also very si l ly at t imes, such as
featuring footage of a volcano erupt ing badly
animated dinosaurs, something that would be
absolutely devastat ing but is just bizar re. It
features just about every end-of- the-world
scenario you can think of. Volcanoes, al ien
invasion, robot invasion, zombie invasion,
meteor storms, dinosaurs. Everything that
COULD go wrong, HAS went wrong.
That’s why the video is so
funny, the news
presenters are singing
about how everything is
okay while total
devastation is happening
around the world.
Towards the end of the
video, even the news
studio the band members
are in starts to fall apart,
but they still keep singing
the happy song with
smiley faces. All the way
up to the end where an
explosion destroys the
whole planet

5. THE VIDEO
The band did this kind of video because it is funny. Being an
upbeat and happy band, they ’ re all about making people simi le.
Putting such a bizarre and contradictory video to their song is
just straight out funny.