Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life
Earle is signed to Bloodshot Records and has three released albums from 2007–2009, The song The Good Life was released in 2008. He is described as a modern fusion of folk/ country/ rock musician.
As the beat begins there are 7 cuts to the beat showing different establishing shot locations. This sets the scene and the walking pace for the piece. As the lyrics say' well since you've left iv had no place to be, I'll spend most every day doing as I please' visually we are shown two long shots of a man smashing up his guitar and one of a man walking down a train track (which was one of the establishing shots shown at the beginning) and back to the artist Justin playing and Micky mousing the lyrics. So straight away we know that the there will be a strong relationship between the lyrics, visuals and music. Another example of this is the lyrics "Iv got pockets full of money" and we are shown a long shot again of Justin picking up some money, then a cut so a close up, showing his walking as the lyrics "here it jingle as i walk" are played.
Throughout the video there are references to the notion of looking. For example 1.53 we feel like we are one of his friends/ band members in his room as a hand held camera is used and he interacts directly with the camera and smiles into it. Again at 2.08 the camera is following Justin down the road, and he looks over his shoulder, smiles and welcomes the camera forward like we are his friend.
The performance itself is concept and performance based as there are lots of shots of his playing/ micky mousing and shots of him doing other random things, but they don't follow/ create a story they just follow the lyrics.
From looking into the video I have discovered the conventions of this genre's way of being presented. So when planning mine I need to include:
- Micky Mousing
- Live Performance
- Lyrical interpretation
- Relationship between the music and editing
- Relationship between lyrics and visuals
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