Music Video Analysis: Queens Of The Stone Age - 'Go With The Flow'

Music Video Analysis: Queens Of The Stone Age - 'Go With The Flow'

I chose this video to analyse because it is very distinctive to any other video because it has a cartoon animation effect on the whole video, and this makes the video stand out from others.

The video starts with a panning establishment shot showing a long empty deserted road, this makes the audience unsettled, because the music slowly builds, giving a feeling that something is about to happen. Then the main song starts, and at the same times a car crashes through a barrier, and drives at the camera, this shows that the song has a fast pace to it, because of a car driving fast builds momentum. This is effective because it grabs the audience’s attention right from the start.

We then see the band members on the back of the car, playing there instruments to the audience. However the band have an effect on them, so there faces and hair are all in black, but there eyes and mouth are in white, so the audience’s attention are taken straight to the singers mouth, so the audience understands the lyrics easier. 

Because of the effect put over the video, we cannot see the bands clothing, however we can see a design on the lead singer’s jacket. It is an old western design, and it boosts the setting of the music video, because it is set on a long road on the desert. Also the bands instruments are in bright white, so they stand out to everything in the video, this boosts the visual aspect of the band, and because it shows the audience just the band and they’re instruments. This is a very effective way of introducing the band to the music industry, because it gives a new audience a feel for the bands attitude towards their music. The way that this video is filmed gives a new audience a feel that the band doesn’t want to base their music on image just as much as the music, they just want to express themselves through music, and not how they look.

The song ‘Go with the flow’ is about a sexual relationship between a man and a woman. Throughout the video there are small hints about this, mainly through the image of a dancing woman, wearing little clothing.

Overall this video is very effective in giving an image about the band to a new audience, showing them that the band care more about their sound rather than their image.