Textual analysis of music video 2

Name of artist: Disturbed
Name of song: Asylum

Genre Characteristics

1. -Darkness, the emptiness of the asylum represents insanity 
2. -Torture- the feeling of everyone against you
3. -Feeling or being repressed 
4. -Insanity 

Relationship Between Lyrics And Visuals 

1. -Singing about not wanting to die in an asylum while the visuals show his journey of escape 
2. -singing about insanity, the main character is classed as mentally insane 

Relationship Between Music And Visuals 

1.  -Follows genre convention of dark asylum, the feeling of emptiness or being alone has ravished this persons mind 

Inter textual References

1. -Titled asylum it follows the definition of insanity 
2. -''Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome'' 
3. -The character continuously tries to escape the asylum but always gets put back in his cell

This video is mainly story based as it focuses on the guy who tries to escape the asylum but it keeps with in the genre limitations and in-keeps withing the story of the song as they link together