Music Video Essay

Mackelmore's video that he relased this year for his song Same Love told us a story about homosexuality. The video sent out a clear message about the struggles that people have when telling people about their true sexuality. It is a true story about the stuggles that the artist himself Mackelmore went through. It did recieve a lot of media attention and did turn some heads because their have not been many vidoes like this done before especially when it means as much to the artist as it does to Macklemore. I think that he was very brave to be able to show everyone how hard it was for him and what he went through because some people would judge him on this.

The video is meant to be showing Mackelmore as he is growing upit is meant to show how he has had the same upbringing as everyone else but he couldnt decide on the way that he has tuned out and he wants to make sure that people undertsand that as they get older they get discriminated a lot more for their sexuality, as he is older it clearly shows that he is hiding it and feeling like he cant tell anyone about what is hapenning. There are many shots that we can see of people holding signs about the supreme court as in this time it was not acceptable to be "gay" and there are also lots of images of Martin Luther King who thought for what he believed in and this is what Mackelmore is doing he believes that the way that "gay" people are being discriminated against is not right and he wants to try and be the voice for this.

There is a shot where two men are standing on the edge of a hill and are about to jump into the water together and there is a close up camera shot of the two men holding hands, it then looks down the mans foot which is shaking. The men are much happier when they are in each others company they are smiling and happy. They are walking down the road and then another man with his girlfriend says something to them. They then have a gay marriage and everyone is really hapy for them there is a shot where the two men are standing pon the balcony and all of thier family are in the background on a lower level than them