http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrJvuUA7QkY
This music video is the final one i chose to perform. Lady Gaga 'Just Dance' is in the 'dance-pop' genre, it features Colby O'Donis, and had vocals by Akon and was produced by RedOne. This was released as the lead single in 2008, it has influences of R'n'B and in the lyrics it shows a storyline of being intoxicated at a house party. Lady Gaga says"Everyone is looking for a song that really speaks to the joy in our souls and in our hearts and having a good time. It's just one of those records. It feels really good, and when you listen to it, it makes you feel good inside." The genre characteristics of the dance routines, lip syncing and the overall stage performance makes this music video get easily catergorised into a particular genre (dance-pop). This is shown by the camera shot of Lady Gaga on each chorus of the song, it shows a close up of her face lip syncing with a bright white, simple background which singles this genre of the song out easily to be pop and not metal or others genres like that. In the chorus of the song when it says 'Just Dance', a clip of the dance routine is shown this also shows the relationship between the lyric and the visuals because when the lyrics says 'Just Dance it shows a dance routine. The relationship between the music and the visuals are amplifying, Lady Gaga ahows it is in the pop genre by the beat of the music also the costumes, routines and camera shots. There are close ups of the artist and star image motifs in each chorus. There are many performers in this music video but the camera shots only show main close ups on Lady Gaga when she is lip sycing or dancing. There is no references to the notion of looking such as screens within screens but there is reflected views in mirrors of the performers and camera shots of a camera. There are no intertextual references in this music video to any other tv programmes or films but there is intertextual references to her other music videos. They are all similar, with this 'Just Dance' music video and the 'Poker Face' video also by Lady Gaga both have similar dance routines and the same sort of camera shots showing the lip syncing. Overall this music video is performance based mainly on the dance routines and lip syncing and it is also narrative based by narrating its story throughout the music video of a house party and to 'Just Dance' and enjoy yourself. It shows other people house partying in the background which follows the narration of the video. I think this video is great and has a simple storyline that is the reason i chose this video to perform my own version of and i really enjoyed it.
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