'Smells Like Teen Spirit's music video is one that slightly confuses you and gets you asking questions by having little odd things that they include within the music video, such as the dancing janitor. This is also done by the choice of setting and lighting/use of colour (linking to the post about 'For Tomorrow' by Blur). They have filmed this video in what seems to be a indoor basketball court/sports hall. This shows Nirvana's American origins but other than that its as if they are performing some kind of sports show, but really they're performing a gig. Also there has been this yellow treatment to the colour, giving a kind of melancholy affect to the video which contradicts the video in a way as a performance is meant to be quite an enjoyable happy experience with the the cheer leaders and the feel of the crowd.
- This is something that I could do in the music video that I create, having some props or choice of setting that doesn't quite make sense to make people raise questions about it. However, this could be tricky as it might just be completely random and not have a very good affect.
A similar music video to this is the one too 'Everlong' by Foo Fighters:
This too has some odd things that don't quite make sense in context to the song, such as the massive hand that the singer gets and this gets the audience asking questions. However, the dreamlike state makes the weird things like this excepted so that use as an audience don't feel too put of by this as we accept them because they're in a 'dream'.
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