Friday, 11 November 2011

Coldplay "The Scientist" Analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWLpTKBFcU&ob=av2n - Link to the video

Having watched the video and analyzed the lyrics to the song, I feel the video definitely fits the music and there seems to be some sort of narrative structure that it also follows. Listening to the lyrics I came to the conclusion that the song is about a scientist who neglects his girlfriend because of his work, and then eventually realizes his mistake and wants to go "back to the start".

The video mimics this somewhat, it has him walking backwards throughout and actually going back to the start before his girlfriend died. It is also quite a slow paced somber video which definitely fits the mood of the song. At the end it shows him and his girlfriend happily talking in the car, and this could represent how things could've been had he not neglected her.

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