Textual analysis of Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

Introduction
- The genre for this music video is indie rock
- It is all done on a computer instead of being filmed

What is the relationship between lyrics and visuals?
- There aren't any links at the beginning of the video
- When it gets further into it he sings 'I wanna know what time it shuts' and as this is sung the lines go into a pair of legs effectively 'shutting' and they cross their legs
- The lyrics 'Simmer down and pucker up' are then sung and the lines turn into a pair of lips
- As he sings 'Too busy being yours to fall' the woman dives down and is falling

What is the relationship between music and visuals?
- This music video is cleverly done and uses the lines on the screen to show the beat of the music
- At first it's just one instrument so they show one line on the screen that moves at the same rhythm to the music
- It then changes to the singing rhythm
- As the song goes on, more and more instruments and singing comes in so there becomes more lines on the screen that represent the different components to the music and they all go at different rhythms

Are there close ups of the artist and star image motifs?
- There are no shots of the artists at any point in time in this music video

Is there reference to the notion of looking?
- In the middle of the song it starts to show images of young girls made up of these lines shown on screen
- There is a lot of voyeurism within these shots as they focus on different body parts of the women
- Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze theory is defiantly used in this video

Is the music video performance based, narrative based or concept based?
- I would have said at the beginning that is was purely concept based but then there became images on the screen and i began to think that it was actually narrative based although it doesn't really have a narrative to it

Conclusion
- This is a very different music video and i really like the way they have done it
- The lines that represent the different instruments and voices are a very clever idea and it is simple yet effective