The music video for this song from Blink 182 is a mockery of other artists and their music video's. This can be seen right from the offset when the band are shown walking off a plane wearing fully white suits and strutting towards the camera. This is similar to the costumes and the styles used by The Backstreet Boys, westlife, Blue e.t.c. Blink 182 ended becoming well known for ignoring normal codes and conventions of their Genre of pop/punk rock and just mimicking other artists to mock their styles.
The camera shots used in the video follow the conventions of the music video style that is being mocked by the artists. a lot of wide angle shots and establishing shots are used to show the different locations that the band are performing and posing in. The shots mimic the style of pop music video's and the video is mainly made to look like a publicity stunt, and is filmed as though it is done by the paparrazi. Some of the shots are done in black and white and the artists are stood on the beach staring at the camera like in one of the old westlife video's.
The crowd that can be seen watching the band from the beginning of the video are again a mockery to the crowds that can be seen in other music video's from pop music, and are not the type of people stereotypically seen at a rock concert. The crowd is a very early reference to show that Blink 182 are not a band that follow the normal codes and conventions of their Genre.
The Video is very abstract, as it doesn't link in with what is going on in the lyrics at all. While the lyrics contain phrases such as 'she left me roses by the stairs, surprises let me know she cares' which is to do with his Girlfriend, yet the video is showing the artists on the beach and Travis dressed as a woman running along a beach with a volleyball.
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