This document analyzes the music video for "Same Jeans" by The View. It summarizes that the video displays many characteristics of an indie music video, including shots of the lead singer and sections of stage performance. While the lyrics do not directly relate to the visuals, they tell an amplified narrative story. The relationship between the music and visuals is also generally amplifying, mirroring increases in tempo. The record label likely influenced close-up shots of the band through demands. The video primarily takes a narrative approach with some performance elements.

1. Goodwin’s Theory – The View (Same Jeans)
Indie/Indie Rock Genre

2. Music Videos Demonstrate Genre
Characteristics
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“Same Jeans” falls under the genre of Indie Rock. Indie Rock music videos
are commonly associated with lots of instruments being played, many
shots of the lead singer or a specific narrative storyline. They often
contain sections of stage performance. These videos are often shot in
locations that are rural such as fields or woods or very urban scenery such
as streets.
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This video displays many of the same characteristics of an indie music
video, showing many shots throughout the video of the lead singer. The
video also has a narrative storyline, sections of stage performance and
shots containing urban locations such as streets or gigs. This makes this
music video very stereotypical in terms of Indie Rock music video
conventions.

3. Relationship Between Lyrics and
Visuals
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In the music video for “Same Jeans” by The View, it is evident that it is an amplified music video, as
it is mostly narrative and the lyrics explain the story on screen more than they are directly linked to
exactly what the visuals are doing. Therefore, this music video would be said to have an amplified
relationship between the lyrics and the visuals. However, while amplified, the relationship
between the lyrics and visuals are weak.
While the lyrics do not necessarily relate to what is on screen
at that time, they do tell a story and relate to what will happen
later on in the film. An example of the amplified relationship
between lyrics and visuals is where we hear the lyrics “I’m
gonna go to a disco in the middle of town”, and later we see
him playing at this disco/gig.
As well as this, we also see an amplified relationship when we
hear the lyrics “I’ve had the same jeans on for four days now”
at the same time as we see a medium shot of the lead singer
waking up on a sofa after a party, showing why he has probably
had the same jeans on for that long, because of his party
lifestyle.

4. Relationship Between Music and Visuals
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The relationship between music and visuals is
amplifying in most parts, although there are
some illustrative parts where the lead singer
and his band are playing live on stage. At the
end of the song, we see the tempo of the
song increase greatly, which is then mirrored
by the visual effect, as the cuts become much
faster as well, giving a feeling of the band’s
life being fast pace and relating to the
message of the song’s lyrics that they have a
party lifestyle and need to stay grounded but
are losing track of time.

5. Demands of the Record Label (Need for close-ups of
the artist and motifs of the artist which may recur
across their work)
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The View are signed to Two Thumbs Records, and we
can see how the record label may have influenced
the video by placing demands, as the video is full of
close-up shots of the lead singer and the band. A
motif has also been created in The View’s music
videos, this video being no different, including lots of
live performance footage at parts, while contrasting
with a narrative.

6. Reference to Voyeuristic treatment of and looking at
the female body
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There is little reference to voyeuristic treatment of and
looking at the female body in this music video, and the
song does not seem to be about girls either, however we
do see shots of the lead singer at 1:55 being kissed by a
girl while at a party, showing that sex or women may be
a part of the party lifestyle that the band live and that
the song is about.

7. There is Often Intertextual
Reference
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There do not appear to be any intertextual
references as the music video is primarily
storyline based and so does not include any
links to media or reference anything else.

8. Performance, Narrative or Concept
based?
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This music video seems to be ultimately narrative
based, as the lyrics are simply narrating what is going
on in the music video and talking about the party
lifestyle, however there are also sections of
performance in this video too. The combination of
performance and narrative is very common among
Indie Rock music videos.