Lorde-Everybody Wants To Rule The World

 

Themes/Ideas

• strong beats in song, good for cutting

• fight between inner daemons, good vs bad

• concept of adam and eve and fallen angel

• girl releasing inner bad, not possessed but empowered and rebirth

• filmed in studio, video has 6 stages of transition from good to bad

 

1) Good-girl in white cloak and hood completely covered, white background and white flowers (birth symbol flower?) innocent, pricks hand on flowers, let blood drip down, turns black

2) Recognises bad is there (curiosity)-blood turns black letting it drip down hand, coming out under sleeves, seeping through

3) Bad starts taking over-black starts seeping through white, taking over, lighting turns darker, covering girl

4) Panic/Suffocation-girl panicking, smearing black, trying to get rid of it, drowning in it, smearing on face and make-up, cape falls off

5) Embracing/Enjoying- (2.22 in song) cape falls off, sees herself, looking up, grinning, wolf behind or black wings, like lucifer, fallen angel

 

• symbolic representations, images of flowers, girl and shadows, see all three separate till long shot at the end shows all together

• girl holding flower, covered in shadows with shadows behind

• flowers start off in clear vase, becomes black, looks like its coming from underneath,vase shatters in the end

 

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