Digital Media Review #2

The music video I picked to my Narrative Analyses over is “Everything Changes” by Eytan and The Embassy. This music video is very simple and basic, but I believe it is much deeper that what meets they common eye. There was no editing done for this music video, it is a simple single shot music video. There are no camera movements done, the camera is just facing one guy, the lead singer. He starts out sitting there in a bath robe turned away from the audience. There is a white back drop behind him. He turns around and takes off the robe and is wearing a suit and tie underneath. Some hands come in and put on a wig and a pair of glasses, and here the audience can tell that he is representing Buddy Holly. He is constantly being undressed and dressed again into different famous musicians. He goes from John Lennon, to Jim Morrison, to Bob Dylan. From here the audience can believe that this change of appearance is also going to chronological order. After Bob Dylan, he is dressed into who I believed to be was Frankie Valli. The white back drop falls and there are two men who are dressed just as our lead singer, all snapping to the rhythm of the song.  He is then dressed into Elton John to 70's Elvis “The King” Presley to David Bowie to Sid Vicious to Bruce Springsteen from “The River” era. There is even a man who portrays Clarence Clemons, the saxophone player of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. After this he is dressed up as what appears to be Brett Michaels, with the long 80's metal hair and head motions. Then to Prince to Kurt Cobain, with a woman portraying Courtney Love in the background, to Billie Joe Armstrong to Weird Al to a nuclear worker, which I did not understand the reference. It then goes to Lady Gaga being taped up with caution tape and ends with Dead Mouse. To me, it seemed to go in chronological order from the 50's to modern day. The chorus is “Well if you're tired of being yourself Go on and be somebody else As long as the stars are burning The world keeps turning, you know...That everything changes.” It is clear that the lead singer is tired of being himself, and is taking on the appearances of famous musicians.  I believe the “stars” that are mentioned are not the stars above our world, but the stars of the music world, and the music world never stays the same. It’s always “turning” with the time, which was showed in the music video. It was showed with how the musicians would dress, and the audience knew that the last musician being portrayed was completely different than the next one. In this music video they are showing that the music industry is always changing. Nothing is ever going to stay the same in the music industry, or even in our culture. Since the 1950's, music has played a huge role on culture. Each decade since then has been completely different from the last, which was shown in the music video. The overall theme is that as long as the world keeps turning, everything changes.