Music Video Analysis - P Money

Goodwin’s Music Video Analysis

Wiley: P Money

In the music video of ‘P Money’ Wiley has a variety of different dance moves but all match the beat of the music and the style of dance goes with the music itself; for instance when the beat drops in he begins to rather step to the beat or jump up and down to it, this tells me that the genre’s characteristics are in their case ‘hyped’ or being ‘active’. This shows that the type of people to this will do the general things that are happening in the video, being going to a mc battle or going to a house party.

During the music video as well as dancing to the beat of the music, his hand gestures and body language match with the lyrics that he’s saying; for instance when he’s talking about being a pro he mentions Hullet known to be a legendary footballer and how he was like a bullet and does the hand gesture of a gun. He does this throughout the video, as well as all of his other videos he tries to match his actions with his lyrics as well as matching the dance to the beat of the music.

The genre grime always has the use of rather a track with a lot of base and treble, which creates excitement in the atmosphere; as the tracks have the use of bass and treble this can create an adrenaline for the audience, especially if the music is loud it affects the audience as a result of jumping up and down a lot, or everyone performing a dance where they’re all synchronised and in time with one another.

In this music video the use of close ups show the dance moves he’s performing, mostly throwing his arms around but moves them to the beat of the music, but the dances that are performed in the video is a dance that every fan does that watches his music videos; in all of his videos he has the use of dances that involve his hands going to the beat of the music if not jumping up and down.

In most of his music videos he uses lyrics that a high percentage of people know about, meaning he’d create lyrics that have been heard from the news, talking about famous people or even making lyrics about another former MC.  They do this because this brings the audience hype, making them think that there may be a clash battle occurring soon about the two MCs, things brings a lot of attraction to the two MCs as this is something that can also be a joke that sometimes continues on to other music videos and gets them more fame for what they’re doing.

By Megan Birch