To add to my analysis of Tom Delonges side project AvA and it's relation and influence on Blink 182's new image, I decided to look at one of AvA's music videos, Breathe.
So this video is a much more subdued affair than anything we have seen Blink do. The whole things is a performance in a white room with the odd shots of a girl dancing or being naked. The themes of this video are pretty unsubtle, it's about sex. This, in a way is similar to Blink, however this song doesn't sing about sex in a crude way, it makes sex out to be this lovely beautiful thing. Much unlike Blink 182. The videos location is a simple performance area, not a suburban street or skatepark as we would usually see with Blink. This I think, makes AvA a little unaccessable when compared to Blink. The camerawork involves lots of closeups of Tom doing his trademark AvA dancing, and cheeky shots of the female human form.
When looking at how this video has impacted on how Blink do things now... it's plain to see that it hasn't really. Since Tom plays a guitar in Blink, he isn't dancing around as in AvA. His image has changed, yes but the way he is in Blink videos and the way he is in AvA videos remain separate.
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