i enjoy how the video is half performance and half narrative, the song itself is about the artists life and mostly the past and how it is gone and but not forgotten, the whole music video is filmed in the artists home, with him performing the peice in his living room surrounded by his guitars with his most iconic guitar sitting just to his left just in reach, through the video the narrative side has the camera following him around his house, showing a glimpse into his lifestyle, to everyday things like sleeping and tlaking on the phone to shots of his swimming pool and the view form his house in the hills above LA to his recording studio, at some points during the video the audio and visuals aren't matched up so the lips and vocals are out of sync and some shots are blurry and hard to comprehend, the themes throughout the song are about his past and how he is moving onward and forward to a better future, so the image of his iconic guitar next to him, the one he performs and records with when playing for the red hot chili peppers, and just the fact that it follows his everyday routine offers the image of a man living each day as its own, past froma life of drugs abuse, the location and the fact that his guitar are all his own and how is informally dressed, as if he has just got out of bed all add to the music video and the themes, the video isn't massively technically adept there are no blinding special effects are weird camera angles from a helicopter circling his house, the music video is like the song minimalistic, the shots are simple but very effective, and illustrate how in this instance how less is more, the video simultaneously contradict and illustrate the lyrics, the song itself is about his past and how he is moving onwards, there are no shot illustrating his past, even though the song is largely about his past, but they augment the parts about moving forward and how the past is exactly that, the intended audience is for fans of the red hot chili peppers, the older fans mainly who would be around 35-40 who know about the artists past and drug abuse, and the intense fans of the chili peppers who have read up about the band, all in all i think this is an extremely good music video which is paired wonderfully with the song.
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