When many artists write a song, that song conveys a message. Whether that be a anecdote about their life or a message to the people that listen to their music. I wanted to explore this further, if songs are like little stories then their must be music videos that incorporate the book form into them. The first example of this that I found was in Eminem's video for 'Like Toy Soldiers'. This video reinforces the idea that songs portray stories because it features two children looking through a book, with the rest of the video appearing to portray scenes from that book. The next example that I found is a cover done by the band Twenty One Pilots of the song 'Cancer', originally by My Chemical Romance. The video for their cover is a animated lyric video that features books in abundance. To me this illustrated that life is a story. The third one that I came across was 'Wings' by Macklemore. In this song he tells a story about consumerism, illustrated by the fact he is reading to school children in various situations. At the end of the song he can be seen closing the book, showing that the story is finished. All of the above music videos feature books in their physical form and portray how the song is trying to tell a story or get a message across. After finding music videos that featured books within them I wanted to look more into music videos that may not necessarily feature a physical book but reference books in some way. Immediately I came across the music video for 'What You Waiting For?' by Gwen Stefani. The book referenced within this video is 'Alice in Wonderland'. I also came across the music video for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song 'Don't Come Around Here No More', which also feature the alice in wonderland story. This is a popular story with many more music videos paying tribute to it.
Annie Lennox's video for 'Walking on Broken Glass' is based on the french novel 'Dangerous Liaisons' by Choderlos de Laclos. The song 'Please Don't Leave Me' by Pink heavily references the book 'Misery' by Stephen King. With Pink being the farm girl Annie. This video also makes reference to various horror movies including 'The Shining', originally another novel by Stephen King.
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