Music Video #64 (Day 4 of 2009)

We follow up a hot band with a cold one. Tonight's video is Trouble by Coldplay.


This video has a fairy tale theme while the song is made for people who recently got dumped. We start with a yellow house on top of a mountain. You can see skyscrapers in the background. The top of the mountain is just big enough for the house and some garden. There's a winding staircase around the mountain. The house reminds me of the kind of ornament you hang on a tree. There's a water wheel that does nothing and some people who never figure into the video. The video is very sparkly.




We see a woman outside the house with a water can in hand. She has mushrooms, a tree and her couch to water. On the tree is a cgi robin with a weird head. As the woman water her plants we see how flat everything looks, which gives the place a more fairy tale feel. We see similar plants blooming in nearby forests. Dandelions appear and they get blown by the wind. Their seeds become sparkly.

The song starts and we see the lead singer lamenting over being stuck in a spider web. Oh boy. Luckily he isn't talking about a literal one or I'd bribe Lita to skip today. Wait, DON'T TYPE THAT!



Anyway, singer feels like he's stuck and he's thinking about all the stupid things he did. Why? We'll see. The band is on a horse-drawn cart and they ride by farmlands. I think we see a Dorothy Gale-like girl at some point. I didn't notice this until after I watched this once. Then again maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there. We next see one of the band members playing the piano with a typewriter. The typewriter causes notes to literally fly in the air. Trippy.

We get to the point of the song, which is that he's apologizing to a loved one. You know, typical "I didn't mean to hurt you" stuff. Now I said that the song was about getting dumped but that's not necessarily true. I'd just saw the fairy tale look and the woman and jumped to a conclusion. It could just be anyone important to you.

We see the woman again. She's still watering stuff. Suddenly the freaky robin turns into a freakier crow. It flies to the camera and stops as if it was trying to be Batman. Suddenly it's night and the sparklyness is raining down, causing the forest to rejuvenate.

Suddenly after the last suddeness, it's night time and there are tornadoes forming in the sky. Also, there's a scary horse with long legs but that doesn't have anything to do with the song. A tornado attacks the mountain but the gardener can barely react with dull surprise. The house is lifted over a rainbow and lands in vacant lot in a neighborhood.



This song is about regret. The video shows how good the person he hurt was by showing this woman in a fairy tale setting where her ordinary watering could cause extraordinary things to happen. The singer feels so bad that he can't even apologize to her directly, and he repeats the idea of being in a spider web because he just can't bring himself to do what needs to be done. I'm not sure what the Wizard of Oz part is about.

The song and music video are ok.

The awesome thing is when they showed that one guy following the cart. The video made him look flat and rotated while doing so. It was like he was a cube. The second awesome thing is the woman's haircut.