Video Analysis Of 'Wide Awake' By Katy Perry

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Music videos are a means of communicating emotions appealing to an artist; sharing it with the world. My music video of choice is “Wide Awake” by Katy Perry. The song is written and sung by Katy Perry a well-known artist presenting lots of emotion. The song’s story telling promotes youth to adult transitioning, identifying three key phases of development: comfortable ignorance, turmoil catalyzing seeking, and resulting establishment of higher self-awakening. The song talks about being in a good place high above the ground, and the next thing you know you are falling and in pieces on the ground. This happens on a daily bases to everyone in the world, Katy is showing us that everyone goes through it, but it will mean nothing if you cannot get back up and move on with your life, a lesson of learn and forget. Previous releases largely focused on partying, love and sexuality; Wide Awake offers a more …show more content…

In the music video there is a scene in the end of the video where after Katy has been through everything, she is in a meadow with a man that resembles prince charming, they both go in for a kiss and prince charming crosses his fingers and Katy sees that so she punches him on the face and he fall away into a bush. This appeals to logos because if someone who claims to love you really do not love you and has just been using you from the start, a punch in the face is what he would be rewarded with. When someone is deceiving you your logical reaction is to get very angry and that causes us to do stupid things. Katy is telling us through this video that you cannot let someone or something control you, you will get hurt but you will recover. That's the logical thing to do when you're down; you get back up and learn from your mistakes. Like Katy, when we falling from external comforts, we too can “pick up every piece, and land on our feet” with new internal realizations. As she claims, truly, we “Need nothing to complete

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