Pink - "Please Don't Leave Me"
The Single “Please Don’t Leave Me” was released by Pink in April 2009, and reached No.12 in the UK Singles Chart. The songs genre is pop rock, although Pink cover songs at are Pop, Rock, R&B, Pop Punk and Dance-punk. The producer of this Music Video is Max Martin, and the promo is directed by Dave Meyers that has directed 11 of Pink’s music videos as well as the Britney Spears Hits; “Lucky” and “Radar”.
The typical conventions used in a music video of this genre are:
- Band Shots, whole band shots and performance clips
- High lighting
- Bright lighting, not natural
- Close-ups, and extreme close-ups
- Colour effects, often monochrome
- Fast-pace editing
- Straight cuts
- Panning
- Seductive pose from the female artists
- Deserted locations with straight forward narrative
- Guitar solos
- Voyeurism
- Urban locations
- Singing whist act
The Please Don’t Leave Me music video uses some of these typical conventions such singing whist acting as well as seductive poses from female artists, as Pink does a seductive dance when in a nurse’s outfit. It also makes use of a camera pan right near the beginning of the video which places the viewer in the room and directs us to the action.
The video appears to cut to the beat and the use of fades to and from black help the video seem dark and eerie. We can also see that the lyrics have a relationship with what’s happening in the video as the lyrics “perfect little punching bag” shows Pink punch the man like a punching bag.
In this video there are some intertextual references to films from the thriller/horror genre. There is a direct imitation to “Misery” when Pink smashes the kneecaps of her man with a golf club, there is also a direct imitation to “The Shining” when Pink runs after the man with an axe and breaks through the bathroom door and looks through the hole she made. The video also released a censored version because the amount of violence that was used in it.
The censored version has the most violent scenes cut and contains shots that aren’t used in the original, as when Pink runs after the man with an axe, the camera is on the man running away and not Pink running after him.
Unlike other music videos this one is all narrative based, usually most videos have an element of performance however this one doesn’t but we see Pink singing the song as if it was play as the lyrics matched the action in the music video.
The typical conventions used in a music video of this genre are:
- Band Shots, whole band shots and performance clips
- High lighting
- Bright lighting, not natural
- Close-ups, and extreme close-ups
- Colour effects, often monochrome
- Fast-pace editing
- Straight cuts
- Panning
- Seductive pose from the female artists
- Deserted locations with straight forward narrative
- Guitar solos
- Voyeurism
- Urban locations
- Singing whist act
The Please Don’t Leave Me music video uses some of these typical conventions such singing whist acting as well as seductive poses from female artists, as Pink does a seductive dance when in a nurse’s outfit. It also makes use of a camera pan right near the beginning of the video which places the viewer in the room and directs us to the action.
The video appears to cut to the beat and the use of fades to and from black help the video seem dark and eerie. We can also see that the lyrics have a relationship with what’s happening in the video as the lyrics “perfect little punching bag” shows Pink punch the man like a punching bag.
In this video there are some intertextual references to films from the thriller/horror genre. There is a direct imitation to “Misery” when Pink smashes the kneecaps of her man with a golf club, there is also a direct imitation to “The Shining” when Pink runs after the man with an axe and breaks through the bathroom door and looks through the hole she made. The video also released a censored version because the amount of violence that was used in it.
The censored version has the most violent scenes cut and contains shots that aren’t used in the original, as when Pink runs after the man with an axe, the camera is on the man running away and not Pink running after him.Unlike other music videos this one is all narrative based, usually most videos have an element of performance however this one doesn’t but we see Pink singing the song as if it was play as the lyrics matched the action in the music video.
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