Analysis of Music Videos

Clean Bandit - Everything But You (feat. A7S)

Plenty of things can be questioned about the music video 'Anything But You' featuring A7S, who I have never heard before: 1st) male tears; 2nd) romanticizing of suicide; 3rd) it shows up suddenly some black woman, however she's is whitened: blonde wig + white make-up, which is completely unnecessary if they wanted to represent an angel, a savior angel, as we can interpret, because they embrace religions consideration on angels being white and having curly blond hair, which is racist anyway. Clean Bandit is one band among many I used to listen almost every day, although I must to write down these words of how I felt and how I analyze, even if it is not a potential criticizing that could influence on the success or not of this song and this video, because I am just a poet from the countryside in the South of Brazil and nobody pays attention to my considerations. Harsh or soft is our lives doesn't count much on a person image or reputation, especially if he/she/they doesn't belong to the heteronormative role model of our contemporary global society, marked by the "necrocapitalism" (the prefix "necro" refers to "death" in Greek or Latin, I'm not sure, that's why I see our global system as one that is constructed to eliminate some people precisely to make the things to stay the same for the global elite or the dominant social classes, related to economics obviously, then "necrocapitalism" is a system developed after the neoliberalist and the neoconservative agenda to perpetuate the most privileged in power oppressing the minorities at the same time they, with the excuse of the defense of the human rights, pretend to build an equal society, even though everybody with a bit of study can realise the opposite), or, for some sociologists, just a new tough phase of the global financial and neoliberalist capitalism adapted to nowadays. The black actress and dancer performs perfectly, maybe even she hadn't realised how she was used to maintain a whiting process that the U.S. society is pretty well skilled to practice, even their discursive talks on freedom and the figth against racism, then is not her fault of course and maybe the band haven't noticed this part because they make everything related to race in this video appears fantasy (but we know the reality).

G R TISSOT

3, Apr 2022

00:22 am