Music Video Analysis - Tenacious D - Tribute

Tenacious D - Tribute analysis

The video begins with a reference to the notion of looking when the band go into the studio and despite the door to the studio been closed we can still see what's going on onside. It feels like we are intruding because the studio space is small and crammed and we're listening and watching what they are doing whereas other people can't. There is relationship between the lyrics and the visuals we see in the video when one of the band members says 'hitchhiking' and the visuals of them hitchhiking in an isolated surrounding is shown. The use of a guitar straightaway identifies the genre characteristics of this video as a rock video so a viewer knows what to expect through the rest of the video. There is another relationship between the music and the visuals when the lyrics say 'a shiny demon' and a demon is shown to appear from the ground. The performance shot of them performing in the studio is a genre characteristic of a rock video as rock songs are normally shot as a whole performance throughout the video.

There is another relationship made between the lyrics and the visuals when Jack Black makes symbols with his fingers of 'one and one makes two' which, further illustrates the lyrics of the song. There is a relationship made between the music and the visuals when the music begins to get upbeat and the visuals flash as well as the guitar and a light is shown to come out of the guitar. There is an untypical genre characteristics in the video when Jack Black opens his shirt and he doesn't look like a typical rock singer and neither does Kyle Gass who is dressed in a casual t-shirt and wearing shorts, which suggests that the video has been made as a parody to a rock song. Another genre characteristics is shown of a rock song when the two men get out of the studio and begin to disturb people passing by, this is a reference to the image that rock singers have of being troublemakers, being rebellious and not caring about what they do and they also get arrested by the police. An intertextual reference is made to the actor Ben Stiller who appears in the video as one of the people passing by.

There are lots of close-ups of the two men performing the song in the video which would have been the demand of the record label to illustrate the genre characteristics of the video as a rock song.