Foo Fighters Music Video Analysis
Here is an analysis of some of the music videos from the Foo Fighters. I decided to use the Foo Fighters instead of Dinosaur Pile-Up since Dinosaur Pile-Up only have one music video which is a very similar style to some of the Foo Fighters videos.
Most of the Foo Fighters music videos are split into two main categories/sub genres one being comedy or ‘spoof’, like the video ‘Learn to Fly’, and the other being more serious, like the video ‘Best of You’.
Learn to Fly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJS1rmhI6c&ob=av3e
Best of You - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgRAMUxk-_c
This shows that the band identifies themselves as being serious and down to earth but that they can also be fun by laughing at themselves. The Foo Fighters started off sounding quite dirty and rough around the edges, which is reflected in the music video ‘I’ll Stick Around’ then evolved into a slightly cleaner sound, which can be seen in later videos possibly due to the advancement in filming technology.
I’ll Stick Around - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDZICSGdB-U
Most of the bands videos have the generic rock band music video conventions, which is mostly some sort of basic narrative cutting to footage of the band playing and visa-versa. The narrative in most of the videos almost always contains things like comedy, some sort of weird special effects and more serious narratives including love. The only thing that has really changed with the Foo Fighters music videos is the fact that the quality of camera and other filming equipment has improved. They still pretty much have the same mix of light-hearted, funny music videos and more serious ones that they had 5 years ago.
In practically all of the Foo Fighters videos you see footage of the band playing therefore their instruments would be a typical part of the mis-en-scene. This gives them the obvious image of a rock band. Also, the band always feature in the narrative parts of the music video. The Foo Fighters visual image differs in each video, which shows that they are creative. In some videos, like ‘DOA’, strange camera angles are used together with strange special effects, which gives the videos some quirkiness and is also sometimes funny reflecting in the image of the band. The Foo Fighters have done some videos relating to other media texts. For example the song ‘Learn to Fly’ relates to the comedy film ‘Airplane’ as the narrative is about something going wrong on a plane and then the band has to learn how to fly it.
Learn to Fly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJS1rmhI6c&ob=av3e
Also, the music video for ‘The One’ relates to the film ‘Orange County’ since the band wrote the song as a track for the film.
Joe Rees-Jones
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