from the album on 7 September 2009. The song is written by vocalist and guitarist Matthew. It made it to number 9 in the UK Charts. The music video of the song first aired on MTV2 directed by Hydra. When I watched this video I realised from the music and the band that this genre is rock. Rock songs usually cut between the band and a narrative flow. The video has the band performing in a small city in a small truck. Throughout the video there is always a lit fuse following them wherever they are performing. This video does integrate the lyrics and visuals unlike most videos. The song focuses on the band playing in different places throughout the video like a trailer, and the back of a small truck. From the title ‘uprising’ I think from the lyrics they are telling story of how the bears will become ‘victorious’ but there isn’t much evidence of uprising until the end of the video when the teddy bears rise up through the ground. The band is trying to battle against the teddy bears, like when Matt smashed the TV screen to show they can’t escape the teddy bears which links in with the chorus of being controlled and beating them with the words ‘victorious’ and ‘they will not control us’.
Throughout the video the beat stays the same to keep a steady beat. But when the fuse is shown in the beginning and throughout the video there is a use of a synthesise to link the music with the visuals. The song changes beat in the chorus to show the importance and the audience would mostly remember the chorus so this is done to help the audience remember. But also use the synthesis to link with the fuse and the importance in the continuity. This is quite common for most of muse’s songs when changing the beat of their songs in the chorus.
In most videos especially in rock songs, there are many close-ups of the artist. This video is not different. Throughout the video there is close ups of Matt Bellamy’s face and other close ups of some of the other members of the band instruments. When the band is shown Matt is the person usually in the centre during a midshot of the whole band and there are a lot more close ups of him than the rest of the band. All the shots are quite dark to represent the dark and mystery of the theme. There are many examples of being a rock band as most rock bands usually include smashing something and matt smashes a window in this video. The close ups are used to promote the video as the audience are looking to see the leading singer and solos from the guitarist or drummer are usually popular within the audience.There is performance and narrative based, I think. The bands is more the performance- based and try to be in the shadows in the video, which is why they are never in big locations. The use of narrative and performance makes the audience aware of the genre and helps to sell the video and song.
Unfortunately i couldn't upload this video eithr, below is a link to the video
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