After spending years analyzing music videos and the music industry, Andrew Goodwin put together a set of key features which apply to all music videos. Of course not all of the features are applied in every music video, however at least one feature included is either complimentary, contradicting or amplified. These features were illustrated in his book 'Dancing in the distraction Factory (1992). - Relationship between the lyrics and the visuals. - Themes, mise-en-scene and events of the video match with lyrics of the song, to help to portray the message of the song. For example we need to link the lyrics that we use to the events that are portrayed in the video. In Oasis's music video 'supersonic' the lyrics of the song ultimately help to portray their feelings of loneliness and isolation, in the song they say ' I need to be myself, I can't be no one else ' Th is also means that they feel like they can't do anything right as everyone is alway...
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