Desire Video Analysis

The song Desire, by Dance-Pop group Years and Years is a dance pop song made up from many intrigueing lyrics, for example ‘Where are you taking me? I want you to want me again’ are lyrics that people can relate to. The emotional rollercoaster of a relationship, where you are wishing for someone to desire you as much as you desire them. The lyrics, being so versatile make them connectable to people, and also are great to be played with that type of dance music as people can sing the lyrics to their friends and really relate to them. The song would be completely different if the lyrics were the same but the music was a ballad form, the true emotion within the lyrics would be revealed.

The video shows a chaotic, sexual relationship and the lyrics clearly represent the confusion between emotions that the characters are feeling, they imply that they don’t know whether they have feelings of love or lust.

There are other lyrics throughout the music video such as ‘I must be tough’ which shows how relationships can tear people such as the singer down, therefore they need to be tough emotionally to handle the relationship.

The music video of Desire is made up of a mixture of mid shots, close ups and establishing shots. The camera includes many horizontal movements of the camera, panning to the various different shots. These help to draw the narrative together.

There are shots of the band members, such as Olly Alexander are used to show him as a type writer. After close ups are used to show him typing ‘the end’ repetitively which shows how consuming the emotion can be to feel.

Editing is used in the video to create emotion within the video. For example the colour scheme of the video is very dark and blue which connotes sadness and confusion which is shown throughout by the lyrics in the music video such as ‘your love only gets me abused’ which shows emotional heartache and pain due to love.