MUSICVID #13 Depeche Mode - Strangelove

POSSIBLE POINTS OF INFLUENCE:

• The scenes with the women 

ACT: Depeche Mode
TRACK: Strangelove 
ALBUM: Music For The Masses
YEAR: 1987
DIRECTOR: Anton Corbijn (the band's stalwart director)
GENRE: Electronic, post-punk, synth-pop
SINGLE?: Yes, lead single released five months before the full album. The version used for the video was the single version, different on the album (same as the third single, Behind The Wheel)
LABEL: Mute Records (owned by TBA)

The MTV carried out censorship on this video due to overly sexual material of nudity

In the USA, MTV objected to some of the more revealing footage of the models and the video was edited to replace them with images of the band.

IN SUMMARY

• Use of lip-synching interesting not always when lyrics are playing and the band is on screen, there are some pauses, similar to Lana Del Rey's High By The Beach.
• Voyeuristic use of camera angles, reminds me slightly of Peeping Tom.
• The end looks like outtakes/bloopers, the band and models laughing, takes away some of the dark themes hinted at throughout the video of sexual depravity. Reminds me of what the Year 11 students Neo and Ruslan and Olivier and Christian did as part of their GSCE coursework)
• Representation of ethnicity (choice to have a non-Caucasian model, was this still challenging then?)

References to their other videos.

Dave Gahan falling down, reference to Shake The Disease video?

Mundane, casual characters walking by, also used in Corbjin's visualisation of their 1997 single Useless.