Robot

This was an amazing song and an amazingly choreographed dance for the video. If the lyrics were in english i have feeling the song would be better still and would really express the view of the video openly without having to look at metaphors and such. It seems, however, that by the style of the music and dance routines they used this song had significant metaphorical value. The music was something like a techno-pop. Techno-pop mainly uses machines to make the different sounds, like over and over they used a mid-80s piano sound that was played a bit faster. Also the piano riffs were not played out as individual notes, a phazer was used, meaning the pianists only had to play one note and the machine would figure the rest of the notes to play in the scale. The dance was quite obviously robotic. The first thing many people would think of seeing that for the first time is "they are machines, all synced together and working together." I think this all shows how machine-needy the people of today have gotten. Almost everyone has a smartphone and uses computers daily. Everyone uses a car. Everyone uses at least one machine daily. This could even be taken a step further to say that all people are really turning into machines. This video was shot in New York, the place where the person next to you is the equivalent of a paint stain on your new jeans. No one really cares for another there. Everyone also just does almost the same exact thing day in and day out. They really become machines then when they don't do anything new and their emotions are nonexistant. It is a brilliant way to convey this point. And a good song