Riptide Analysis (unfinished)

Riptide is a 2013 indie song by Vance Joy. The song is expressively part of the indie genre. Indie music is music produced separately and independently from bug record labels. The term indie is sometimes used to describe a genre and as a genre term, "indie" may include music that is not independently produced, and many independent music artists do not fall into a single, defined musical style or genre and create self-published music that can be categorized into diverse genres. The term ‘indie’ or ‘independent music’ can be traced back to as early as the 1920’s after it was first used to reference independent film companies but was later used as a term to classify an independent band or record producer. This is clearly influencing the music videos of the indie genre and riptide clearly plays with the styles of some retro films such as blue velvet. It also takes inspiration from current popular indie films and specifically plays around with wes anderson style cinematography. 

A usual convention of indie music videos is to have a performance based video which usually will show the band performing at a concert. Riptide subverts this stereotype and doesn't have a performance but plays with compilation editing. It does however take the lyrics literally and presents that in the music video. This is expressly shown within the first few minutes of the music video where the lyrics "i was scared of dentists and the dark", then we literally see these lyrics conveyed in the video. 



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