The kooks ‘she moves in her own way’
The Kooks are an English indie rock band formed in Brighton, East Sussex, in 2001. Formed by Luke Pritchard (vocals/guitar), Hugh Harris (lead guitar), Paul Garred (drums), and Max Rafferty (bass guitar). After some success the kooks signed to Virgin Records just three months after forming and to this day are a popular indie rock band with their mainstream songs of Naive and She moves in her way; these two songs are most recognizable to their fans and also to the general public. The Kooks, had been influenced by David Bowie, Queen and Bear Cavalry to create their entertaining music. Furthermore, there most successful album created has by far been Inside In / Inside Out; which featured ‘Naive’ and ‘She moves in her own way’. The band managed to reach 3rd in the American best album charts of the month and managed to stay 5th in the charts in the U.K for 2 months. The song I’m going to talk about is ‘She moves in her own way’, this song was very successful and is explained how the song was created through the music video, when the band went on tour too Mexico.
The kooks made the song in 2006, and came up with the song in Mexico when they were on tour. Furthermore, it was created with a reason behind it The Kooks designed their song through the different cultures that they had experienced from going to different countries and as a young indie band noticed women are different in other countries and therefore quite amusingly, came up the name she moves in her own way. The band use a range of techniques in their music video to get the message of culture of different women towards their fans and viewers in the public and helps to notice that people can be defined different because of where they are from.
The band uses a range of techniques to show their purpose of how different countries have different cultures. Firstly camera and editing shots. These camera shots however, dont become visible until further on in the video. The first shot used is an establishing shot of an ally way where a number of different girls are there at this point cuts are used quickly and are in sync to the beat of the drum. Cuts are used in sync with the drum beat throughout the song and allows the viewers to see different parts of the band on their tour but also show many different images of the culture in Mexico. The cameras uses mainly close ups and establishing shots with a tilt throughout the video. These two camera techniques are good to use when cutting quickly. A use of temporal ellipsis is also obvious through how time has passed through each day and again backs up their point of seeing how culture is in the day and evening. Many camera shots are used on the tour bus, to show that the band are on tour. Furthermore, when vocals are not being said close ups are used on the drummer and the guitarist and this again emphases that they are a band on tour due to the way that they act and this also states that these people are a star image of the band. These techniques are always however, backed up by lyrics, ‘she moves in her own way’ is said mainly on the tour bus or when a piece of scenery is placed on a scene; this emphases culture again due to different scenery and is linked with different scenery on different women in different countries.
A sense of notion also becomes applicable to viewers this is because of the way the band look at different bits of scenery and a lot of eye line match is used to do this. These notions of looks however, have no sexual preference as such but would have been chosen so the viewers have a idea of who is singing in the song and also to give some mystery of who they may be looking at.
Mise en scene also has a preference as to where the band is, and also helps back up the cultural aspects of the song. The band are dressed in jeans and have an indie/ rock band look which suits there genre and creates a good image towards this song “she moves in her own way”.
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