AlunaGeorge past music videos

Attracting flies - there is so much intertextuality within this music video, starting with Little red riding hood and the wolf within the first few frames, leading onto Rapunsel as the video continues, then Goldie locks and the three little bears, the sword in the stone, the princess and the pea, Snow White and the seven dwarfs, Cruela devil from 101 Dalmatians and sleeping beauty. The video starts with the lyrics hat repeat throughout “little grey fairy-tales and little white lies” referencing all the fairy-tale intertextuality to come within her video. There are a lot of high angle shots looking down on Aluna making her seem more vulnerable like the princesses from the fairy-tales she is rein acting.  

Not above love - at the start of the video she arrives in a car playing one of her previous songs “mean what I mean” from the radio including her own intertextuality. As well as this the frame then changes to a swimming pool also previously used in her video “you know you like it” where she dances in an empty swimming pool with her friends. Unlike most of her other songs, this is slower and has a sadder message and tone. She has her hair styled in a similar way to princess Laya from Star Wars as well as wearing a white jacket and trousers suit. I also like the use of flashbacks she does using quick frames of photos creating Aluna’s memories of a previous relationship she is trying to get over as these pictures flash on and off. Towards the end there is a club scene which has a dance genre vibe, referencing the same genre I am going to create with my video. 

Best be believing - this video starts as Aluna is taken to a dance rehabilitation centre. The group support meeting has intertextuality to films such as wreck it Ralph, collateral beauty and shutter island. Furthermore, as images are held up by a psychiatrist, which one of the actor’s dances too in response to each, there is intertextuality to the Simpsons where Bart is taken to a psychiatrist and he must say what the picture looks like. She is hooked up to a machine which connotes a lie detector seen in movies such as mission impossible. This video also has a dance genre vibe similar to the sort of video I am going to be creating.