Text Analysis Assignment: Music Video

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I am analyzing the music video for “Luv Deluxe” by the Cinnamon Chasers. The music video is about five minutes long; throughout the video, the primary focus is a couple that does not make the best decisions. The couple steals, does drugs, and ends up killing a man they recently met. In the beginning of the video, the girl influences the guy by encouraging him to misbehave with her. In the middle of the video, the guy starts influencing the girl to misbehave with him. Near the end, the guy changes his bad behavior, but the girl continues to act out. Even though the couple acts differently as the video progresses, every bad decision they make has a bad outcome. I believe the video is trying to get viewers to realize that no matter who you are, you receive the same consequences as the people you surround yourself with.
The girl starts to influence the guy to misbehave when she rips up their restaurant bill and runs out of the restaurant. The second time she behaves badly, she steals a wallet. After stealing the wallet, she points to a man sitting on a bench with his wallet peeking out of his back pocket; she was pointing at this man because she wanted her boyfriend to steal the wallet. After her boyfriend steals the wallet, a homeless person asks for money, but the boyfriend claims that he does not have any. Instead of giving the stolen money to the homeless man, the couple spends the money on drugs. After the boyfriend steals another wallet, the couple befriends a few guys they meet outside of a club. The boyfriend and girlfriend go to an apartment that belongs to their new friends, and they secretly steal all of their wallets. After a while, a cop pulls up behind the couple's car after they have left the apartment. The vide...

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...if someone else is making your decisions for you. Take the cop scene for example; even though the boyfriend went along with his girlfriends decisions, he still received the same consequences as she did. (Possibly jail time?) If you do something bad, you are going to get what is coming to you. When the boyfriend started being rude to his girlfriend, she didn’t want to deal with him anymore, so she chose to murder him. Maybe the knife had more of a symbolical meaning. It’s possible that she didn’t stab him, but maybe the knife was symbolically representing karma. The guns at the end of the video might have also had a symbolical meaning; it’s possible that the guns could have represented suffering. It is crucial to think about the outcomes that can come with the decisions you make. If you make a bad decision without getting caught, you will get caught eventually.

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