The second music video I analysed with a female vocalist is Everybody's Fool from the band Evanescence. Much like the other videos I have analysed, this video has dystopian elements and a general theme of isolation and being outcasted.
The video starts of with and has clips of the main character in some of her modelling and acting jobs, each one she needs to take one a new persona and adapt to the role. We see the character being glamourised and sexualised in order to sell a product or a role.
The video later shows us the characters real life away from the cameras and the makeup. The character has a dark and lonely life and is fed up with having to pretend to be someone else and feels as if she is being haunted from her personas.
The video is very dark when its based in the characters reality. When looking at her personas the colours are very enhanced as if to give a false and hyperreality tone which the audience later find out is the case. The general tone I got from watching the video is that the character is only loved when pretending to be other people, her personas are famous whereas herself as a person is still being tormented and hated (as we see when being laughed at in the lift). The theme of isolation is shown from the character being trapped in her apartment out of fear of going outside and dealing with people who are using her for fame.



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