Music Video Analysis

'The Cure' - are an English rock/indie band formed in Crawly West Sussex in 1976. The Cure are often identified with the Gothic rock sub genre of alternative rock, and are viewed as one of the form's definitive bands. Because of the genre of the music that the Cure produce, there lyrics will be suitable to fit the genre. the Cures idea of Gothic soft rock/Indie gives the lyrics much stronger meanings and they are enforced with much more force. Most of the Cures songs lyrics are often about some sort of loss or depression. There music is made to suit the depressive Gothic like genre in which the lyrics are representing.

The Cure have often been questioned about there music videos. These questions and judgements have been based on both Quality and relevance. When Tim Pope came along, that changed for the better. There videos became more popular and more viewed the ever. This promoted there band massively and eventually lead them to be the first Gothic rock/indie band to go mainstream. This particular video is very simple in terms of complexity and graphic display but there is a wide range of meaningful animation which could represent several different things, meanings or personality, lifestyle traits.

Mise-en-Scene
The music video is set in the same place throughout the full video. The representation of the band is instantly gathered when the band is represented as young teenage boys. This possibly represents there lifestyle and there rebellious attitude which is refusing to grow up. The idea of the title been 'Boys don't cry' instead of 'Men don't cry' is the idea of maybe been represented as children because they don't want to grow up and have to deal with the typical stressful life of an adult. This can also be seen as just a simple representation of stereotypical male, that doesn't cry. The animation in the background shows a silhouette of themselves but as an older version. This may be indicating that there still are boys inside no matter how large there adult personality's tower over them.

Editing

The editing of this particular music video is rather new to the era that it was produced in. The animation is fairly well presented in a way that is understandable. The animation in the background helps to create a visual lyrical form of dialog which plays along in sequence with the lyrics and music.