Musicless Music

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November 7, 2015

Blog 6

Musicless Music Videos

Watch one of the music-less music videos along with the original. Compare what you see, hear and feel. How does the sound change the message of the music video?

        

         For the song Stay, by Rihanna, the musicless music video has a comedic mood as opposed to the original music video, which has a more serious, depressing mood. The musicless verision was just a snippet from the beginning of the original. The scenes for this version was Rihanna removing her clothes and moving in the water-filled tub. There are close ups of her sad face as well as her bare stomach. The only things I hear are the movements she makes in the water as well as her moans and the gurgling of her stomach. Basically, the sounds she makes as if this was the recording they made while filming the music video (but in the video description this was a parody). When they zoomed in on her stomach, you can her her stomach gurgling, and later you hear sounds that make you assume she farted in the water, adding to the humor of this parody. In the beginning it made me feel touched, to see the intimacy of this filming, thinking that this was the actual raw recording of the music video. However, I was confused when I thought she had farted, but thinking this was the real video of her. Later I read the description and comments, realizing the video was a parody with inserted audio, which I then thought made the whole experience funny and clever. This changed the original message of the music video, which was made to be a serious, emotional, moving and sad piece, to one of humor and awkwardness to see a well-known celebrity as Rihanna to fart and moan in a bathroom.