Initial Music Video Research

Sasha Sloan – Music Videos

Genre of music - Indie pop

      Type of music video, e.g., performance, narrative, message, etc. (we'll do this in more depth as a class) –Narrative, showing what the lyrics are saying.
Settings and locations – Houses, bars, streets and parks. Very casual everyday places.
Costumes - Doesn't wear clothes that are to stand out and flash, stays very casual. 

      Props – Not many props.
Make-up – Very minimal and natural.
Themes and tone – A lot of her videos her filmed in low lighting places or at night to help create the sadder and moodier themes of the music.
Narratives – A lot of the narratives are quite similar, depending on lyrics the narrative symbolises that.
Choreography – No choreography.

 

Song chosen - The only – Sasha Sloan

The lyrics - meaning, use of similes and metaphors – The lyrics in the song talk about feeling alone and feeling sad about being alone. Which is very relevant and relatable to a lot of teenagers and young adults which is the target audience for this kind of music. Verse 1 is about how it is making her feel and what this feeling is doing, then verse 2 talks about a couple ways of coping, which aren’t necessarily good. The pre-chorus sounds like Sloan is trying to reach out to whoever is listening.

 
The music - genre, tone, key, shift in any of the mentioned terms – The music tends to keep a slow sort of pace and the same sort of key and tone all the way through, apart from a small rap section.