The main message throughout this music video is to live your life and not to let anyone judge you. This is shown through the use of lyrics and the lack of clothes that the band members have on.
This music video combines performance and narrative were we see a link between the two. In both the performance and the narrative all of the band members are completely naked.
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Although we are shown a lot more of the narrative through the music video, the performance plays an important part as we can see that in both of the shots the band are naked which strongly links the two together. However, the lyrics of the song and the narrative we are shown do relate to one another 'my friends say I should act my age, what's my age again?' connotes that he doesn't want to grow up because he still wants to have fun. The two people shown running with the lead singer are also naked and these people are probably his friends. However, they are naked too which connotes that they are all quite immature and would like to live the fun life that they had when they were younger rather than grow up.
The guitars, drums, mics and amps are all very typical of a rock band which is what Blink-182 are. They have used lots of close ups to show each of the band members as they play their instruments and in this particular shot we can see all three of the band members playing.
The next line of lyrics is 'later on, on the drive home' and then we are shown a shot of the three band members running past an old car and the car then crashing into a sign because the driver is shocked at the naked band members running down a street.
These women are quite young and probably the age that the three band members would be looking at dating but all three of the band members completely ignore the women and carry on running as if nothing is wrong with the fact that they are naked. This challenges conventions of music video as for once we are not shown the women as the main focus of the video and there is little attention paid to them. But the 'female gaze', as explained by Laura Mulvey, has been used throughout because all three band members are completely naked with quite desirable bodies that women would find attractive.
The editing is relatively fast paced as we are shown shots of the band members running down the street and the shots of the car crashing which is typical of this genre of music. They are connoting that to live a fun life you have to live it fast and do as much as you can.
We are then shown a series of shots as the band run across a basketball court and steal the ball from the people playing basketball. The lead singer throws the ball and manages to get it into the basket first time which connotes that because they are living such a fun and chaotic life everything seems to be only going uphill. A noticeable change here is the lighting as they have just been running through a town during the middle of the day and now it looks as if the sun is about to set. This challenges the idea of continuity which is again quite common in music videos. The editing of these three shots is very quick and we only see the second shot for a matter of seconds before it changes to the shot of the basketball going through the hoops.
There is another long shot of the band playing and we can see all of the equipment is set up as if they were performing to an audience. This is quite interesting as they lighting is quite light and not like what you would expect to see at a concert.
The camera then very quickly zooms into the drummer and then zooms out from him to zoom straight into the lead singer singing 'what's my age again?' while looking directly into the camera.
Up until this point there hasn't been much editing in time with the beat of the music. This is unusual for a music video as quite a lot of music videos with fast paced editing tend to follow the beat of the music for the shot to change. However, Blink-182 have obviously wanted to focus mainly on the narrative of the video which is quite interesting as we get to see the whole story and not just small parts of it like you would if the shot changed on the beat of the music.
Through the music video, we have only seen the three naked band members but then we are shown a shot of this woman wearing a very provocative top which reveals her bra. This is tailored to suit the needs of the men which as Laura Mulvey's research shows is called the 'Male Gaze'. Here it is only used for a matter of seconds before the men run off again after staring at the woman. She is also wearing quite a lot of makeup and her hair is perfectly made up which is clearly going to be seen as attractive to a lot of men.
Another interesting shot is this one of the men running naked while the works on the path are covering the parts that they have been intentionally blurring out. This moment in the music video is meant to be quite comedic as it has been throughout.
This shot is of a smaller TV that an old man is watching while the naked band members run around on the programmes that the man is watching. This is quite funny as the old man doesn't understand what is going on. This also represents that spending time watching TV can make you miss what is actually going on around you as the men suddenly run past the man watching the TV and he only notices them at the last minute. The lighting is still a lot different here from the basketball shots as it appears that it is the middle of the day showing that the rules of continuity have completely been ignored.
