Textual Analysis of ‘Wonderwall’ by Oasis
Genre – The song
itself is closer to Britpop than Rock/Alternative Rock, the genre the band
Oasis is most known for. There is not much of a storyline to layout the genre
as it is mostly performance clips, suggesting a rock genre. There are out of
place parts of the video, for example there is a clown simply staring at the
camera/audience.
Narrative – There
is not much of a narrative in the video. Possibly the clown and the puppet
could be seen as part of a storyline relating to the song; somehow the puppet
has become the clown’s ‘wonderwall’.
There are some links between the lyrics and the video, for
example at 1:24 when Liam Gallagher sings the word winding, you can see that he
is being winded upside down.
There could possibly be a reference in the video at around
1:40 when Gallagher sings ‘There are many things that I would like to say to
you but I don’t know how’, the clown and the puppet say nothing, possibly
representing the lyrics.
Representation –
in the entire video, there is only one woman, possibly representing the men are
more important than woman. There is also use of the ‘Male Gaze Theory’ (Laura
Mulvey), as the woman in the video is seen to be wearing fairly revealing
clothes. The band is mainly only shown as them playing the song.
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