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Essay / Text Analysis Assignment: Music Video - 838
I analyze the music video for “Luv Deluxe” by the Cinnamon Chasers. The music video is approximately five minutes long; Throughout the video, the main focus is on a couple who aren't making the best decisions. The couple steals, takes drugs and eventually kills a man they recently met. At the beginning of the video, the girl influences the guy by encouraging him to behave badly towards her. In the middle of the video, the guy starts influencing the girl to behave badly with him. Towards the end, the guy changes his bad behavior, but the girl continues to act out. Even though the couple acts differently as the video progresses, every bad decision they make has a bad outcome. I think the video is trying to convey to viewers that no matter who you are, you suffer the same consequences as the people you surround yourself with. The girl begins to influence the guy to behave badly when she tears up his restaurant bill and runs away. of the restaurant. The second time she misbehaves, she steals a wallet. After stealing the wallet, she points out a man sitting on a bench with his wallet sticking out of his back pocket; she was pointing at this man because she wanted her boyfriend to steal the wallet. After her boyfriend steals the wallet, a homeless person asks for money, but the boyfriend claims he doesn't have any. Instead of giving the stolen money to the homeless man, the couple spends the money on drugs. After the boyfriend steals another wallet, the couple befriends a few guys they met outside a club. The boyfriend and girlfriend go to an apartment that belongs to their new friends and secretly steal all their wallets. After a while, a police officer stopped behind the couple's car after they left the apartment. The video...... middle of paper...... if someone else makes your decisions for you. Take the police scene for example; Even though the boyfriend accepted his girlfriend's decisions, he still suffered the same consequences as her. (Maybe jail time?) If you do something wrong, you'll get what's coming to you. When the boyfriend started being rude to his girlfriend, she didn't want to have anything to do with him anymore, so she chose to murder him. Perhaps the knife had more of a symbolic meaning. It's possible she didn't stab him, but perhaps the knife symbolically represented karma. The guns at the end of the video could also have had a symbolic meaning; it is possible that the weapons represented suffering. It is crucial to think about the outcomes that can result from the decisions you make. If you make a bad decision and don't get caught, you'll eventually get caught..