Me and my group decided to do our music video on the song "Jenny was a Friend of Mine" by The Killers. The song is part of a trilogy of songs done by the killers that tell a story. The story is as follows...
- 'Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf' is the FIRST part:
He drinks himself stupid after Jenny left him ("Shakin' like the Devil when she let me go...") because of his jealousy. He can't get over the fact that she's left him and is seeing someone else. "Jennifer, tell me where I stand/and who's that other boy holdin' your hand?"
- 'Midnight Show' is the SECOND part:
He kills Jenny by suffocating her and throwing her body into the sea. "I took my baby's breath beneath the chandelier of stars in atmosphere and watched her disappear into the midnight show" and "Crashing tide can't hide a guilty girl" (jealousy again).
- 'Jenny Was A Friend of Mine' is the THIRD part:
He's been caught and is defending himself by lying to the police. "There ain't no motive for this crime
Jenny was a friend of mine." He tells the police he wouldn't kill her because she was his friend so he explains with: "She couldn't scream while I held I close/I swore I'd never let her go." but in live versions he sings "She kicked and screamed while I held her throat".
Here is the link to Jenny was a Friend of Mine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlOqXcPkUis
We chose the song because it does not yet have a video to it. This is good because there is no video to reference to and it will be all our ideas and will not be influenced by the original video. We also liked that the song was part of a trilogy telling a story and we decided to do the 3rd part of the trilogy because we could try and include parts of the other 2 songs in the video as flashbacks.
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