Ballet Type Music Videos
Swan Lake
Go ahead and listen to Swan Lake's 2nd act's coda. If you don't know the story of Swan Lake or the the name of the scene, go ahead and take a guess as you listen to the music.
As an extra challenge, instead of watching the video below as it is, turn off the sound. Once you've done that, watch it one last time with the audio on.
While the music doesn't tell the full story, you can tell that it conveys a lot of the scene through it. Not the specifics, sure, but the emotions. You can feel the happiness, the confusion, and the anxiety even if you can't place it to any characters. If you decided to listen to it with audio the first time, you can probably guess where the various music cues would've hit.
Lorn by Acid Rain
Lorn opens with a car crash at a diner, the cheerleader at the driver’s seat exiting unharmed. She dances angry, kicking at the ground, but her energy quickly runs out. She stumbles into the diner and we see an analogue clock with no hands. Another girl has entered the scene, standing in a spot that was shown to be empty a moment ago, and she leads the first girl forward with her dance that has more energy to it. This second girl has wounds where the first girl is unharmed. As the camera turns away and back again, the second girl is suddenly gone. Skipping to the end of the video, we see five cheerleaders dancing in front of a car, all with wounds. The original girl, the one that left the driver’s seat unharmed now has a wound in her side. The scene cuts to her standing among mist and cuts again to all the girls, back in the crashed car, dead. From this, we can infer that the girls were all dead to start with, but the first one was on the brink of death, trying to fight for her life but quickly fading.
Adding in the music, a ghostly synthetic sound, we get lyrics that start when the second girl beings leading the first through the diner. Despite it being visualized as night time, the lyrics say:
“Daylight
In bad dreams
In a cool world
Full of cruel things
Hang tight
All you
Nothing like a big bad bridge
To go burning through”
These lyrics end as the second girl exists the frame and seemingly disappears. They repeat once all the girls are in front of the car and dancing together and the first girl now has a visible wound she doesn’t notice until the end. The lyrics could be interpreted as the feelings of the dead girls. The world is cruel and their lives were snuffed out too soon.