ARTIST VID #5: New Generation

POSSIBLE POINTS OF INFLUENCE:

• The train station at the beginning looks so like the Trier Süd station, it’s like I’m meant to add it in my video.

Need to maybe make sure, takes away some ambiguity 

TRACK: New Generation

ALBUM: Dog Man Star (second studio album)

YEAR: 1995

DIRECTOR: Richard Heslop

GENRE: Britpop

LABEL: NudeRecords (website)

SINGLE?: Yes, third single, released three months after the album

CONTEXT/BAND’S CURRENT SITUATION

• With their second album Suede took a more darker and melancholic art rock direction, with singles We Are The Pigs and Wild Ones cementing this
• This track could be said to have a more pop-friendly tune to it

PERFORMANCE, NARRATIVE OR CONCEPT?:

A concept with Suede performing within one of the locations, cross-cutting outside. The storyline features the band singing in a location where there are multiple children, the “New Generation”.

ENJOY THE SILENCE:

The first shot of a train station which lasts three seconds is played on silent, the final 20 seconds are also on silence, which is longer than the silence of the track.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LYRICS + VISUALS:

A new generation, features children.

INTERTEXTUALITY:

Within the world of the album:

These children could be the ones who sing: "We all watch them burn 

BRANDING:

The image at the end of Suede is zooming out a picture of a child and then white.