Textual analysis and Goodwin's theory - Panic! at the Disco

The music video I have chosen to do is Panic! At the Disco: This is Gospel

  The Characteristics for the genre
The genre for this band changes within album but is classed at alternative rock - although they have been known to class themselves as trip-hop cabaret dance punk.- A lot of music videos for this genre carry a narrative within the video which is what is shown clearly in the artists other videos. However, the narrative is less in this video, it is still shown. Suits are also worn in a lot of the alternative rock genre.

 

This is taken from the music video: Why am I the one by F.U.N

Relationships between the lyrics and the visual
The lyric 'don't try to sleep through the end of the world and bury me alive' he is in a wooden coffin with water coming through at a fast rate, showing that he is being buried alive as he is still singing.

Relationships between the music and the visual
During the video, hands are seen holding down the front man, Brendan Urie and move within time of the beats of the music video. Also, some of the music during the video is to symbolise the front man's heart beat as if heard from a heartbeat monitor.

when the music reaches the crescendo of the chorus, each time the visual shows Brendan Urie trying to break away breaking from the two dimensional style of the music video.

Close ups of the front man
Throughout the whole of this video, the front man is seen at all times and almost every shot is a close up of him.

Iconography. a theme that runs through their videos
Narrative is frequent in their music videos where this music video sends a narrative of the lead singer - who could be playing himself or a character- is being smothered by the world and not letting him be alone and forcing him to do what everyone else wants. this links into the lyric of 'if you love me let me go' saying that if you admire me that much, please let me live my life to how I want to and you don't get to make the calls.

The other iconography through their videos is that the other band members are usually in the video, shown in a shot or two as a minor character. in this case it has been said that the other band members play some of the hands that holds Brendan Urie down. in other videos they have been paramedics, members of a crowd and just playing their instruments at a funeral.

Reference to the treatment female body
No reference to the female body is make in this music video as the only person you see - besides from some hands- is Panic! at the Disco's front man, Brendan Urie.