Music Video: Goodwin Analysis

The music video for Plan B's 'She Said' identifies with all the features of Andrew Goodwin's theory...

• The music demonstrates the soul/hip-hop genre very clearly. The soul is evident from the dancing of the many characters involved and his singing, and the hip-hop comes through during his body language when rapping in the witness box.
• There is a clear illustrative relationship between the lyrics and the visuals as it is all about him giving his evidence in court and what he's singing is what he is saying in the story-line - it's almost like a musical style!
• There are many close-ups of the artist Plan B, and this would be a requirement of the record label. His visual style also comes across well too, as he wear the sharp suit - the same one he wears for his live performances.
• There is a lot of reference to the notion of looking mainly between the two main characters - Plan B and the lady. There is also slight voyeuristic of the female body, but this is through the story-line and not stand-alone.
• This video contains lots of intertextual references, mainly to tv dramas and films treatment of the court situation, with classic questioning and trial scenes being drawn on. There is also a reference to the name of the character Plan B plays, 'Strickland Banks', on a wall in the court. This is significant as the album 'The Deformation of Strickland Banks' is all about this fictional charcter played by Plan B.