OLD The Streets – Don’t Mug Yourself
3
The Streets – Don’t mug yourself This song was released on the 8 th July 2003 and was a great success. The band are known for making music that was new and unique and got given the genre UK Hip Hop. The video is very down to earth and follows the story of the morning after a night out and how he should now act towards a girl he met that night. The video starts by entering a cafeteria described as a ‘Greasy Spoon cafeteria” which is associated with working class people. A crab shot is used to follow the singer through the café whilst singing into the camera, the whole song is as if the guy in the video is talking to you like you’re a friend making it quite personal, this is done in many ways, for instance having a close up shot of his head talking directly to the camera. This shot is especially effective as the actor has his head turned as if he’s turned his head to speak to you in the club he’s in. A Few shots later it talks about having a full english breakfast which is again widley accocaited with the working class. Friendship is also a key theme throughout this video showing the comradeship between two friends. This is shown by them sharing time together in the café, Sitting down having a cup of tea in one of their apartments,
-
Upload
peter-jones -
Category
Entertainment & Humor
-
view
173 -
download
0
description
Video Analysis
Transcript of OLD The Streets – Don’t Mug Yourself
The Streets – Don’t mug yourselfThis song was released on the 8th July 2003 and was a great success. The band are known for making music that was new and unique and got given the genre UK Hip Hop. The video is very down to earth and follows the story of the morning after a night out and how he should now act towards a girl he met that night.
The video starts by entering a cafeteria described as a ‘Greasy Spoon cafeteria” which is associated with working class people. A crab shot is used to follow the singer through the café whilst singing into the camera, the whole song is as if the guy in the video is talking to you like you’re a friend making it quite personal, this is done in many ways, for instance having a close up shot of his head talking directly to the camera.
This shot is especially effective as the actor has his head turned as if he’s turned his head to speak to you in the club he’s in.
A Few shots later it talks about having a full english breakfast which is again widley accocaited with the working class. Friendship is also a key theme throughout this video showing the comradeship between two friends. This is shown by them sharing time together in the café, Sitting down having a cup of tea in one of their apartments, going to the pub together and having a drink and playing darts with each other.Generally the working class are thought to have a good sense of community and looking after one another, this is clear through the friendship of the two guys but becomes more apparent when the people from the whole pub start commenting and reciting the lyric “Hold it down boy your heads getting blurred, I know you can stop thinking of her, by all means you can vibe with this girl just don’t mug yourself that’s all don’t mug yourself”Which in other words is saying we care about your wellbeing and we want you to go and have fun just doesn’t get hurt in the process.
Drinking cups of tea, which is a typical British thing to do, also this is showing the two friends together.
Going down the local pub for a drink is again anther example of the bonding between them. In the local pub most people in there know each other and are friendly with the landlord
