In the music video New Girl Now by the Honeymoon Suite, it reveals an event in which the guy had found a "new girl" and there's this typical clingy ex-girlfriend who is determined to get the guy back. The intent of the music video is to portray a lovesick ex-girlfriend and a quickly moved on boyfriend. Many people can relate to this type of relationship. In the first seven seconds of the music video, the guy who has moved on frighteningly fumbles with his keys to his house to avoid the magical emission of the kiss blown at him. Unfortunately, the heart shatters on the doorsteps. We then get to see the girl outside his house in a phone booth eagerly calling the guy's telephone. This scene clearly portrays a typical obsessed ex-girlfriend. Not only does the obsessed ex-girlfriend calls constantly, she throws a rock through the window. On the rock, there is a heart with arrows going through it. The heart with the arrow symbolizes everlasting love which relates back to the story of Cupid's Arrow. He then throws the rock back out the window and boastfully sings the chorus, "I've got a new girl now, I've got a new girl now...And she looks a lot like you." The guy's action appears to be bold and can only be interpreted as "I have moved on, I have someone new and our love is no longer everlasting."
The telephone appears in the video once again but on a plate the waitress is serving. The waitress walks through the dancing crowd towards the guy.The guy sings, "I don't want you on the phone, don't you play that good girl with me, why must I always say it again" and kicks the telephone away from him. The message is clear when the telephone is kicked across the room. The obvious lyrics and the kick of the telephone exemplifies the conclusion of a relationship, an "over and done with" message to the audience. The video finally ends with the "new girl" blowing the guy a kiss, and this time the heart remains unshattered.
Thank Lisa. I have never heard this song or seen this video before. Your analysis is pretty good, particularly in your final paragraph, in which you analyze the symbol of the phone and demonstrate how it relates to the artist's purpose. This paragraph is also the most well written. For the most part, you write well throughout this entire post. There are, however, a few technical lapses that I want to point out.
ReplyDeleteFirst, look at this: "In the music video New Girl Now by the Honeymoon Suite, it reveals..." This is a mistake. What is "it"? What is the antecedent? You might think that the antecedent of "it" is "music video," but it can't be. If "music video" is the antecedent, then your sentence essentially reads, "In the music video...the music video reveals..." See the mistake? The music video is not "in" the music video. This is a classic example when the pronoun "it" is problematic.
Second, please be aware of when you use quotation marks. I am not certain, but I think you use quotation marks to denote words that are not, in fact, in the song. Am I wrong? This is very confusing. As a general rule, I would only use quotation marks to denote textual evidence that comes from another source.