Birdy-Wings
The thought beats to this song go very well with the video,
the powerful instrumental that starts off the song dominates the song the whole
way through and the artist, Birdy, sings in time to the beat and the music
video is also edited around the strong beat. I also noticed that whenever the
singer starts singing the small verses the dominating beat/instrumental stops
so that you can hear her voice and make it sound amazingly in sync with
everything you hear. As the beat changes, each time, you see different
person/scene/camera angle of her.
Her image in the video is very important,
she looks very upper-class and posh but also very sad as she never smiles. She
wears hardly any makeup and has her hair down with a ripped red dress as she
lies on a sofa, making her image in the video seem like she is innocent,
vulnerable but also fun loving. There are also other people in the room asleep
dressed like her and as she has flashbacks and memories it tells he audience
that she has just had a party and it is over now. Some of the people from her
flashback are also dressed as woodland creatures and are on horses next to
campfires and his creates a lexical field of the theme of this music video. The
fact that they are dressed like this shows that they are like children because
it is the kind of things children do, play in woods, dress up as mythical
creatures, have campfires etc. The morning after in the dark house, where they
are all asleep and looking sad, shows that she is sad that all of the fun is
over and they now have to continue being adults in reality again.
The lyrics also help us understand the
meaning of what she is singing about, the chorus says ‘lights go down, in the
moment we’re lost and found. I just want to be by your side, if these wings could
fly. Damn these walls, in the moment we’re 10 feet tall and how you told me
after it all, we remember tonight for the rest of our lives.’ This gives a
powerful message across about how the singer feels. There are variations of
what message you can take from this but for me it is like she is singing about
how she wants to stay a kid because everything is so much easier and trusting.
‘damn these walls’ initiates her being trapped as an adult, ‘in the moment
we’re 10 feet tall’ talks about how at the party they all feel like kids again
and they don’t want to go back to reality. ‘you told me after it all that we
would remember tonight for the rest of our lives’ makes us realise that being a
kid again meant so much to them that they want to remember one night forever. 
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