Unconditionally. Two Words: Visually Breathtaking.

Unconditionally by Katy Perry 

~critique on music video~

Usually, I don't like to listen to Katy Perry songs. I am not a big fan of her songs. But her music video on Unconditionally has made me stop and think twice about my decision.

Visually, the first 20 seconds into the music video is very intimate. What made the video start off even more intimate was the fresh beat. My reaction was "What is that unique sound? It actually sounds like a slow, steady heart beat." 

Then after the 20 seconds, you can hear tribal drums beating along with all the other sounds. Yes, I was totally digging this. I also was not expecting this...at all...because this is not something you would hear in modern music. Usually we would hear guitar strums, piano music, violin, modern drums, trumpets (okay that was random but you get the point)... anything but tribal drums in modern music. Katy Perry has brought something that is traditional and made it modernly fresh. 

But that's not all.      

My first time watching the music video, I was captured and drawn by the dramatic yet soft movements of the people dancing around Katy. There were slow and fast movements of the arms, hands, face, head, and body of each dancer in the music video. So many visual things were happening that I didn't even know what Katy Perry was singing about. All I could think was, "Niceeeee" "Woah, what happened there?"  "What did I just see...?" 

And because the music video is so awesome, I decided to watch the whole music video AGAIN and try to connect what I had just seen with the lyrics of the song "Unconditionally".   

One of my favorite ideal moments in the music video was when Katy Perry's body is cover in flames and when a HUMONGOUS car smashes into her. Does she fall? No. She doesn't. She withstands that hit (which is not possible) to show...how strong her love is for that person? 

RATE: Visually BreathtakIN. 

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