The Kooks - Naive Analysis

The colours scheme for this video is mostly greys, blacks and red undertones, these colours connote to danger and mystery representing the band to have this darkness about them.

In the opening scene of the video we are greeted with a close up of the lead singer, he is the first member we see and so he gives us first impression of how the band looks. The lead singer appears to be walking down a scary alley way at night. This itself alerts us that these lads have no fear.  We get a sense of rebellious due to mise en scene. In this shot the man is wearing a leather jacket and has messy curly hair. From previous videos I have looked at and in my research this tends to be a common theme. The idea that they don’t care how they look and they like to have this bad boy attitude.

A straight cut to this shot leaves us a bit blank, this video has a hidden narrative, this links to Giddens’ idea of the relationship between the visuals and the lyrics.  It tells us a lot about the band, it’s like the band distract the audience with their music to take them away from the deeper meaningful lyrics. The song is about love this really reinforces the stereotypes of this genre. the codes and conventions of this is they alternative and they’re hard people to understand therefore their music always has a problem involved.

Here we see a two person shot of the lead singer again in bed and a girl looking at him. This looks like a hook up which represents the band to ‘get around’ and that they can’t stick to one person therefore never finding love.

The straight cuts between these two scenarios are starting to make sense. The video has a narrative of someone on a night out and taking advantage of a girl who is ‘Naive’ linking the name of the song and the visuals. 

 

The lyrics ‘I’m not saying it was your fault all though you could of done more, but you’re so naïve’ means you didn’t help yourself by getting drunk but you’re naïve and so you got hurt. This represents the band to be very relatable and appealing to their audience as they feel like the band talk about the issues that they might face in life.   

The club like atmosphere and the out of focus camera shots gives the impression that they are on drugs and alcohol connoting to badness representing the band in a bad light yet also giving them style by people thinking it’s cool because they do it.