Music Videos

Young the Giant: Cough Syrup

In my opinion I think this is more of a rock genre. The music starts off with an underwater scene, where a person is playing the guitar, the audience gets the perspective of being under the water. Throughout the music video we see the band at an indoor swimming pool, having being surrounded to water, could link to the title as 'syrup', watery. The director, firstly introduces the audience to everything, the tank full of water, the stereos filled with glitter. Everything that is introduced the audience at first is not destroyed, or empty. It then slowly as the music goes on everything that we were introduced onto gets destroyed. It consistently goes back to the performance, of the band which furthermore adds into the genre of rock due to the fact that mostly they would have their band perform, hence showing off the rock genre. At time there are times where the lyrics would match what is shown on the screen, for example when he sings "coming up out of the blue" and then the people in the swimming pool comes out of the water. However, I feel like the music video does not have any connection to the song it self, but this is what makes it a very good due to the fact that it is very out of the ordinary.