The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony is a really interesting music video because the idea is so simple but the video itself is quite complicated and hard to make, there are a lot of people in this video too which makes the video look a lot busier and harder to make. As a group we like the idea of walking down a street, whether it be one street or several different locations. This video contains both disjuncture and illustration/amplifying because the song is about life being 'bittersweet' which is also an oxymoron because bitter and sweet are completely different things, this means 'pleasure endured with pain' impying life is cruel but we enjoy it. When he is walking down the street he is surrounded by different every day life things going like; men working- brushing roads, people rushing to work etc.



Richard Ashcroft, the lead singer of the verve and the main man in this video, refuses to change pace or directiont hroughout the whole video. In this clip we see him continuing to barge past people and have them look at him for an apology but he doesn't respond. This video has close intertextual references with the video to Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own, but that was made in the 2000's so probably got many idea's fromt his video which was made in the 1990's.