Analysing Music Videos #2

Continuing with Craig Davis' theory on 'Genre Categories', this video for 'Country Girl' by 'Primal Scream' has a genre of Illustration and Amplification.
The Illustrative side to this video shows the visuals of a straightforward link to the lyrics of the song and a simple narrative of a 'country girl' drinking, driving and partying in a cowboy hat and underwear. This could also be described as music video 'denotation'.
The Amplification side to this video is the implied concept behind the video. The 'country girl' played by 'Helena Mattsson' was inspired by the character of 'Baby' played by 'Sheri Moon' from Rob Zombie's 'House of 1000 corpses/The Devil'd Rejects'.
There is also a direct link between the visuals of the 'Country girl' and the song when she is listening to the song in the truck she is driving and singing along to the lyrics. This is also apparent towards the end of the song where she is dancing at a rodeo to the song. The shots of the 'country girl' dancing are edited alongside clips of the lead singer dancing which maintains a link between the two 'characters' and scenes.
The narrative code to the video shows shots of the lead singer 'Bobby Gillespe' as well as the visuals of the 'country girl' that relate directly to the lyrics in order to market and advertise the band. 'Repeatablility' is key in the shots of the band in order to maintain a reference to the band singing the song which is also an example of 'conventions of the band performance'.