Maroon 5's She will be loved is a mixture of narrative and performance based.
The video is about Adam Levine - The main singer of the band loving a girl who is already taken and she is emotionally damaged but he still continues to love her even though hes going out with her daughter.
The genre of the track is pop rock and the director of this video is Sophie Muller and the video was released in July 2004. The mise en scene of the video focuses on the narrative and tell the story of the main singer and the woman he is in love with. The video is in colour but some shots are in black and white to show he is reminiscing and to show the past. The costumes look like what normal people would wear showing the realistic approach to the video. The lighting is a natural but some shots when they are in a club is back lighting.
The video is a conventional narrative video even for the genre. The band does feature in the video as Adam Levine's friends but the main star of the video is Adam Levine himself. Adam represents a man who can't leave this woman he is in love with but ends up cheating on his girlfriend - the woman's daughter for her. We also see that she is not loved by her husband or boyfriend so she tries to gain attention from Adam and his band members.
The video starts with a mid shot of Adam Levine looking towards a pool and reminiscing of some memories as he looks back and eventually jumps into the pool. As he jumps in he looks graceful maybe showing that he is trying to kill himself but then it jump cuts onto two woman walking down the street then a jump cut once again to him drowning in the pool and a fade of a older woman's face then a young girl's face and then his own. We then hear the start of the song and the narrative starts. The scene is a pool side and Adam Levine jumps into a pool with a young girl in his arms and him kissing her in the pool showing a full body shot of them kissing. We also see another jump cut to him staring into the camera lenses and the young girl is cuddling up to him. We then see another jump cut of Adam coming up from the water and resting on the pool side staring at the young girls mother - the woman he really loves. We then see the scene of the older woman massaging her husband and getting rejected from him show she decides to gain attention to herself and stares at Adam Levine showing there is some kind of connection between them.
She then flaunts herself to the members of Maroon 5 to gain attention and eventually showing a jump cut to Adam Levine running down the stairs with back lighting and showing the mother on the floor lying but shes not dead and we see Adam helping her and we see her lipstick is smudged and then a jump cut to her husband smudging it and then a jump cut to her and Adam. We see they are full on kissing and then jump cuts of the woman's husband and then a jump cut of a new scene where Adam is in a car watching the woman while she is shopping with her daughter and then another scene to where Adam is fighting with his girlfriend in the flat and the woman is watching them in her car. Then we see a jump cut to a club scene and we see his girlfriend and she smiles at him and then something passes into the camera and then we see the close up of the woman smiling. We see full body shots of Adam and the band and then mid shots of the two lovers. We also then see a jump cut of him dancing with his girlfriend and then another jump cut of the older woman and we see the body language of them both he loves his girlfriend but he shows his affections to her mother and we see he still loves her but can't let go. The club scene also shows the performance of the band as well as a concept. We also see jump cuts of Adam and the older woman kissing passionateley and shot reverse shot of Adam singing and the older woman in a sexy red dress looking at Adam through a long shot. Then we see a close up of Adam and the older woman kissing and we see smudged lipstick on her face. We then see a new scene where Adam and his girlfriend hugging while sitting on a chair in a hotel. We then see a quick swivel to the older woman looking angry and sad while looking Adam and another jump cut to Adam performing we then see a midshot of the older woman and touching her husbands leg and then we see a long shot of Adam and his girlfriend sitting on the chair hugging and the location and props. We then see a quick jump cut of Adam holding his girlfriends hand while looking at her mother. Then another jump cut to Adam in the club scene again. We then see a midshot of the older woman gettign distressed and looking at Adam maybe highlighting she can't take it anymore. Then we see a jump cut of Adam and his girlfriend and then flashbacks of Adam and the older woman, her fighting with her husband, her waiting outside Adam's flat, her flaunting herself and then kissing Adam and then being passionate together. We then see a close up of Adam looking at the older woman and her finally snapping as she pushes her husbands newspaper and then eventually walking off crying towards a fountain. We then see a close up of Adam's face and her husband's face. As she is walking towards the fountain we see the back of her and then Adam running after her and a jump cut to see Adam's girlfriends facial expression. We see a long shot of Adam and the older woman standing next to the fountain but then focused into a close up of them fighting and eventually her giving up and just hugging him while his girlfriend runs down. We then see quick jump cuts of Adam and the older woman hugging and then his girlfriend walking towards them to build up the suspense of whether she knows about them. They then begin to look at each other showing they would kiss and during the middle of the shot we see the girlfriend just staring at them. As the older woman is ready to kiss Adam he looks towards his girlfriend and we see an extreme close up of her eyes and then a jump cut of the flashback when Adam is kissing the older woman and she walks in and then a jump cut to the scene of the fountain and they both look at the younger girl and we just see her eyes again looking sad.
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
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