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Music is an incredibly interesting topic of discussion. While always remaining entirely subjective, certain songs regardless of their complexity possess the ability to deeply impact your emotions in a nearly incomprehensible manner.
As of late, Lucky Girl by Fazerdaze has opened my mind to consider the experiences of another individual in a life I am not living, yet one I fully believe I identify with. In the briefest of explanations, as I enter the final three months of my teenage years, Lucky Girl encourages me to feel young.
While it may be cliché to say, this song, music video included, has quite a lot to unpack. I'm not going to pretend I have some ability to observe this video and fully understand Amelia "Fazerdaze" Murray's thought process and creative ideas. However, much like all art, I have my own interpretations that make this specific piece special to me.
Before I discuss the lyrics and instrumentation, I feel it is important to highlight the visual composition of the often-over-looked-in-this-day-and-age music video. The first point of importance I imagine anyone would notice is the color scheme. For example, the juxtaposition between the dullness of her skin to the vibrant shades of red on her shirt or the dice in her hand is extraordinarily pleasing to the eye. I find that the constant cuts and loops in each scene further cements this contrast of color to the forefront of the video.
Not only do I see beauty in the video itself, but the story the visual components convey as well. After being looped on my desktop for admittedly hours at a time, I believe this video (and the lyrics themselves) focus very heavily on the idea
What once was beautiful can be easily destroyed.
While being shot, edited, and written by three different individuals, it's very apparent everyone involved had the same creative directive and ideas. The colors and constant cuts becoming increasingly chaotic as the video progresses serve as a perfect demonstration of the idea that time is fleeting, and things you once had complete control over can be very easily lost.
The last points of interest that remain unmentioned and significant in my mind are the arrangement and lyrics of the song. After earlier raising the point that this song encourages me to remember that I am young, I find that the lyrics do the best possible job of reinforcing this idea. Within the first verse of the song, Fazerdaze says
"And are we falling faster?
Now we have further to fall"
Now we have further to fall"
In my opinion, this line in particular is rather poetic. As you live your life, as you experience more and grow older, everything starts to go faster and you lose less of the one thing you always imagined you had: Time. But even as you grow up and begin to lose a sense of "being young", you still have more to live for, and in this case, you have "further to fall". It is for this reason I so heavily identify with the song and chose to make a blog post about it.
While the ideas in this video and song show signs of life falling apart and how hard it can be to grow up, in a world where I have so much life to live and experience, Lucky Girl encourages me to look positively towards the future, rather than dwell on the past.
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iason
after a good watch of the video and listen of the song, i must say that i concur. time fleeting is something constantly on my mind as of late (especially right now during this month of seeming sedentary life), but also on my mind are the other things i also don't want to lose. don't want to lose friends due to being unable to see them, don't want to lose professional and academic opportunities cos i have other, often hedonistic, things i'd rather do, etc.
big bop
nerbelkay
yea no doubt