So, I was searching for new music on youtube and I stumbled upon this music video. The Goddess Willow Smith does an incredible job portraying dangers in such an artistic and original manner. In order to honor this multitalented girl, I decided to make a comparative analysis with , The Road having in mind the scenario and the lyrics. So lets begin!
The video commences with a lady, rather old and mysterious, straying through a desert like path. She finds a bone resting in the lifeless sand and, surprised by her finding, quickly begins a ritual resulting in the reviving of Willow Smith. The desert, as well as the road in The Road, represent a remaining path that humans created by engendering destruction. Until this point, we only see a lifeless and abandoned world. Further on in the video, Smith begins to rise skyscrapers and roads that were underground, covered by the desert sand. As she does this, she sings "21st Century Girl, I do what i like" and "21st Century Girl, yeah, I'm gonna live it up, just live it up". Clearly, this is the most important message the viewer has to absorb. She is telling us we are in the 21st century, we only do what we like and live it up. Now, I'm sure this sounds exciting and completely harmless but, when you incorporate the video scenes where she's trying to build up the world again, you understand this is actually a wake up call. McCarthy also uses his novel as a wake up call to humans, encouraging us to preserve what we have and not "live it up".
She continues the song as follows. "I set the boundaries The rules don't own me I'm living life on the edge, I choose my path". What she is trying to tell us with these powerful words is that us humans tend to believe the rules don't apply to us and that we are invincible. Specially adolescents believe this, and as her song title states, we are living in the 21st century. The future of the world are presently teenagers. If we continue with the mentality of acknowledging we are "on the edge" but do nothing about it, we are doomed. But she doesn't let this mentality take over her, for she ends the song with a heroic phrase: "It's that new girl thinking and this song is just the start!". Again, she is telling us that this generation, the new kids, have to take action and responsibility for the future of our earth. She is taking action by communicating the message through her song. That is the first step. The rest is up to us if we don't want to end up striving for our survival in the road.
The video commences with a lady, rather old and mysterious, straying through a desert like path. She finds a bone resting in the lifeless sand and, surprised by her finding, quickly begins a ritual resulting in the reviving of Willow Smith. The desert, as well as the road in The Road, represent a remaining path that humans created by engendering destruction. Until this point, we only see a lifeless and abandoned world. Further on in the video, Smith begins to rise skyscrapers and roads that were underground, covered by the desert sand. As she does this, she sings "21st Century Girl, I do what i like" and "21st Century Girl, yeah, I'm gonna live it up, just live it up". Clearly, this is the most important message the viewer has to absorb. She is telling us we are in the 21st century, we only do what we like and live it up. Now, I'm sure this sounds exciting and completely harmless but, when you incorporate the video scenes where she's trying to build up the world again, you understand this is actually a wake up call. McCarthy also uses his novel as a wake up call to humans, encouraging us to preserve what we have and not "live it up".
She continues the song as follows. "I set the boundaries The rules don't own me I'm living life on the edge, I choose my path". What she is trying to tell us with these powerful words is that us humans tend to believe the rules don't apply to us and that we are invincible. Specially adolescents believe this, and as her song title states, we are living in the 21st century. The future of the world are presently teenagers. If we continue with the mentality of acknowledging we are "on the edge" but do nothing about it, we are doomed. But she doesn't let this mentality take over her, for she ends the song with a heroic phrase: "It's that new girl thinking and this song is just the start!". Again, she is telling us that this generation, the new kids, have to take action and responsibility for the future of our earth. She is taking action by communicating the message through her song. That is the first step. The rest is up to us if we don't want to end up striving for our survival in the road.
*Please note my love for Willow Smith and her video is purely sarcastic.
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