Odds Are by

Barenaked

LadiesMUSIC VIDEO ANALYSIS

The Barenaked Ladies are an alternative rock band, known for their

very upbeat and happy music. The song ‘Odds Are’ continues with this

trend, being about how the odds are that everything is going to be

alright.

THE SONG & BAND

That is what the whole song is all

about. The lyrics talk about how

many bad things but happen but

that, overall, the odds are that

everything is going to be okay no

matter what.

The music video expands on the very happy and upbeat style in

a very strange way.

The music video for Odds Are is very clever. It was definitely created

with comedic intent and contradicts the lyrics while stil l managing to

be very happy and upbeat.

THE VIDEO

The music video features the

four band members as news

presenters, singing about

how everything is going to be

alright while news headlines

like ‘Meteors to strike Earth

at any moment, massive

devastation expected’

appear on screen and video

feeds come in with footage

of the world exploding and

people dying

While all this is happening, the band members

are still all very smiley and happy, singing

about how everything is going to be okay.

The video is also very sil ly at times, such asfeaturing footage of a volcano erupting badlyanimated dinosaurs, something that would beabsolutely devastating but is just bizarre. Itfeatures just about every end-of-the-worldscenario you can think of. Volcanoes, alieninvasion, robot invasion, zombie invasion,meteor storms, dinosaurs. Everything thatCOULD go wrong, HAS went wrong.

THE VIDEO

That’s why the video is so

funny, the news

presenters are singing

about how everything is

okay while total

devastation is happening

around the world.

Towards the end of the

video, even the news

studio the band members

are in starts to fall apart,

but they still keep singing

the happy song with

smiley faces. All the way

up to the end where an

explosion destroys the

whole planet

The band did this kind of video because it is funny. Being an

upbeat and happy band, they’re all about making people simile.

Putting such a bizarre and contradictory video to their song is

just straight out funny.

THE VIDEO