- The music video for "The Only Exception" by Paramore uses a hybrid style of both performance and narrative elements. It tells the story of the protagonist not believing in love but finding her "only exception". - Scenes include Hayley waking up next to a man, writing a note, performing with the band, and moving through different rooms representing her journey towards believing in love. - Elements like the valentine cards, close-ups of Hayley, and references to other works help promote the band and increase popularity, as predicted by Goodwin's theory on relating lyrics and visuals in music videos.

1. Deconstruction of The Only
Exception- Paramore
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Alice Roberts

2. Style?
-According to Goodwin’s theory this music video is a Hybrid. This is a
combination of two or more music video styles.
-Performance of the music video is used by the band members
performing the track whilst the lead singer Hayley lip sings.
-Narrative is also used where the video tells the story of the
protagonist not believing that love exists and trying to live without it,
mainly to avoid rejection, but eventually realizing that it does exist,
describing the person as being their "only exception"

3. -The beginning of the
video opens with Hayley
(the lead singer) waking Beginning
up on a couch next to an
unnamed male and writing
a note that says ‘I'm sorry’
from my genre research I -She goes into the next room
know that the alternative (from the lyrics) the audience
rock genre consists of is aware that this man is her
lyrics being emotional father. Here the lyrics match
hence the ‘love note’ left the visuals and the story
for the male featured on which is being told. This is a
the couch. feature noted from Goodwin’s
theory of the relationship
between lyrics and visuals.
-She then continues on into the
next room which is a bedroom
where she then starts lip syncing
and staring into a mirror. The
notion of looking is another point
stated in Goodwin’s theory.

4. -The valentine themed
-The chorus
cards are in fact fan-made
begins with an
Ariel shot of the Chorus which would probably be a
demand from the record
lead singer
company to add a personal
against a giant
touch. This would add to
pile of valentine
popularity of the band and
themed cards
video.
which link
between the
lyrics and visuals
on screen, this
again is a feature
noted by
Goodwin’s theory
as she is singing
about love.
-A close up of Hayley’s face would again be a demand from
the record company to increase popularity and also develop
the brand.

5. -This is the performance part of the music video style, it shows the
whole band performing the instruments. The main focus is still on
the lead singer with her being composited in the centre of the shot
in the light whilst the others are in the background in the dim-light.

6. -Next Hayley moves through a costume closet. The fact that Hayley is moving
through a large wardrobe could relate to the film Narnia: Lion Witch and The
Wardrobe which could be an inter-textual reference which would increase popularity
to a music video/band. This is again one of the six points Goodwin had discovered in
his theory.

7. She then moves into the next room, where there's a wedding — everyone is
wearing white, but Hayley comes dressed in black; this could show her being
disrespectful as Black is normally related to death.

8. End
-At a rock concert Hayley (through
the notion of looking – a point of
view shot) discovers the same
male she woke up to at the
beginning.

9. End
-After daydreaming of the two being together, she then makes her way back
through the various rooms to the original set in the beginning of the video.
-Hayley sings ‘And I'm, on my way to believing’ and returns to the couch where
the male is still asleep, and hides the note she wrote in her pocket as she lies
back down next to him. This shows her giving him a chance after everything
that had happened. This is the emotional lyrics which are a generic feature of
the alternative genre relating the narrative/visuals on screen.