This music
video begins with the rhythm and acoustic guitarist, Aoi, playing his acoustic
guitar, with an old-looking stone wall behind him. After the acoustic intro, we
see the band standing together on a field. They then turn from each other and
walk off in different directions -- this could be a visual metaphor for a man’s
heart “breaking” due to his separation from the woman whom he loves. After
separating, each band member goes to a different place in and around what we
assume to be a mansion, but not together. Thus, they are still separated. The old-looking
mansion in the video could represent the man’s love for the woman; he’s loved
her for a long time. However, later in the video, the band are performing
together in a different room -- with this room being the performance room, the
implication could be that they are together in spirit. Finally, the video ends
with all of the band members standing together on the field, again; the heart
was pieced back together. However, the band then begins to walk toward the
camera, and, consequentially, away from the mansion. Them walking away from the
mansion could imply that the heart has “moved on”, and is no longer longing to
be “reunited” with the heart of the woman, or something of the like.
Some of the
lyrics in ‘Cassis’ are, ‘I will walk together’; this further implies that each
band member represents a piece of the man’s heart, as the lyrics do not mean “I
will walk together with you”, but they mean “I will walk with my heart fully
pieced together”. The lexical choice of ‘together’ is implying “whole”, not
“with companions”.
In
conclusion, the music video is very well “thought out”, and is a complex
extended metaphor to the point at which each of the band members represent
something.
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