Music Video Research - Disjunctive

Fat Boy Slim - Praise You
This music video was directed by Spike Jonze; It is produced by 'Fat boy slim' and was released in 1999. 
The video is disjunctive as the video doesn't fit with the lyrics to the song and so it doesn't fit in with Goodwin's theory. They have done a dance routine, but the they haven't done it so that it fits to the lyrics but it fits to the rhythm of the music. According to Goodwin the relationship between the lyrics of the song and the actual video footage should have some sort of link. Here the lyrics 'I have to praise you, I have to praise you like I should,' this doesn't show that someone is praising another person as it is people in what looks like a local area dancing to the music. Its more like celebrating for something all together. The dance moves fit to the beats of the music but doesn't have anything to do with the lyrics. The video was shot guerrilla-style (this is not obtaining permission at the location) outside an old movie theatre.
The genre of the video is 'alternative rock and big beat.'


You don't see the producers in the video we can just hear them, so there isn't any representation of the artist apart from what we hear. 
I would say that there isn't much of a narrative to it, as there isn't a story in which we follow! All we see is a group dancing a routine to the music. It also looks like a home video, as in it looks like someone is hand holding the camera in which I think gives the idea of being a video that someone has recorded it on the sly and its funny and amusing to watch because its as if its the only footage. 
Everyone is dressed in casual clothes which emphasises the fact that its done on a one off and the whole arrangement has the idea of funny and done for peoples entertainment.







Calvin Harris - I'm not alone 
This video does not match the resemblance of the lyrics, the genre is electric pop but the video doesn't portray this for the audience to see.

The first shot we see is of a boy pulling a sledge through the snow with a teddy on it. This isn't relating to the lyrics 'Can you stay up for the weekend And blame god for looking too old' as this is putting a storyline behind the music lyrics. So we are watching and listening to two different things. When the music gets a rhythm and a beat starts to kick in the boys moves in time with the music and looks quite scared as he is in the woods on his own in a forest. He starts getting frantic, trying to walk fast in the deep snow as the music is building up which builds suspense to the viewers. When it builds up to a climax the girls start to dance in their chairs/cells with Calvin Harris there. They are dancing to the beat, and it makes people want to get up and dance because of the electric pop genre. 

As I have said there inst much of a story line that follows the lyrics but what we see is women inside a castle inside a dark dingy room with Calvin Harris in a surgery jacket torturing them. There is about 10 women around the room doing static movements which emphasises Calvin Harris to main the star representation as he is the only male there. It looks like they are all idolising him and at one point he ties a girl down and sharpens his knife. He goes around the room measuring the girls with a tape measure, They are all dancing quickly as if they cant stop. It is quite strange. Harris is seen to be a Frankenstein type character by performing experiments on females to take his anger out on his lost 'teddy' that he lost in snow when he was a little boy. 

This is all representing Calving Harris as the 'star' image as there is many close ups and the focus is on him and what he is doing to the females. He is represented to be a character like Frankenstein, we can see this through the shots we see of the women  around him practically being possessed and poisoned.


This is a disjunctive video as relating to Goodwin's theory the visuals do not match the lyrics and so there for it is a disjunctive  music video.