Looking at Music Videos

Videos you want to watch again


Radiohead - Just
The Bends 1995

In this video we see the band in a room playing along to the song and a separate narrative of a man in the street lying down on the floor. There is dialogue between the man on the floor and other characters that find him on the floor, which is written in subtitles at the bottom so we know what they are saying. The dialogue leaves the audience intrigued as we want to know why the man is lying on the ground as he says he can not tell the people in the street as he says "It wouldn't be right". However, when he finally tells them there are no longer subtitles so we can't understand what he says and then we see everyone else lying on the ground as well.

This video gratifies the need to repeat watching it as the audience try to lip read what the man is saying to understand why he is lying on the floor. The enigma of the situation interests the audience and makes it a good music video.