Can't Stop | Red Hot Chili Peppers

Thought Beats: The music begins with a steady guitar chord, strummed continuously before drumbeats intercept to quicken the pace. This then cuts off to another guitar playing out a beat as opposed to drums, which eventually catch up with the music when the singing begins to rap. The chorus is melodic and comparable to desert rock, as research with Fu Manchu. The song reminds me of a less chaotic and higher fidelity variant of my chosen song, with added elements of funk and pop.

The stars are seen performing in a white, warehouse-like space as a band against an orange background. However, there are odd scenes of the band members experimenting with different objects (in a similar fashion to Kasabian in "Eez-Eh".) There is a lot of heavy focus on the main singer, who is often seen singing to the audience/camera - strengthening the theory involving the act of looking.



In the style of Erwin Wurm, the band have been given different objects and are then told to interact with them in any way they desire. Although there is no clear link between the visuals to the song at first, Wurm's works are thought provoking and force us to taken a different look at everyday objects; to see them instead as pieces of art. Therefore, there is a correlation with the visuals of the song "this life is more than ordinary" as well as other disjointed phrases quickly overlap one another, similar to how fleeting Wurm's one minute pieces are. "Can't stop" as a title is a pretty accurate two-word description of his artwork as well as this song's tempo and memorability.



There is no narrative, but a lot of different performances are featured. There is the standard band layout as well as a scene with the guitarist singing in dustbins, playing his guitar under a waterfall of petals, and then performing in a dark room full of flashing lamps. The music video is completely lateral (in the style of the director who is pretty much the father of the music video industry: Mark Romanek).



There is a part of the music video where the camera travels up a tube towards the lead singer's face: possibly achieve by rewinding the footage of a camera falling down a tube in the editing process. Apart from that, the quick cuts are really all that add pace to the music video. There is very little movement of the camera, except for the scene at the beginning with the band running down a hallways with radiators strapped to their backs.


I really enjoy the simplicity of this music video, and have decided to film in an indoor space, be it a professional studio or a garden shed, and see what I can do to create single colour sets. After that, I will not focus too hard on the band's performance, and instead have them interact with their environment, singing to the audience whilst doing odd things. This subversive take on the Punk genre is really what the music is all about: Rebelling against what is known.