Coldplay – Paradise

Jennifer McDuffie –Paradise Collection

Barthes Code

The Hermeneutic Code (ENIGMA CODE)

Throughout the song the lyrics refer to a women in past tense saying, “When she was a girl”, implying that she has grown up and is now looking back on her past; but, we never find out who this person is or where she is going or what her ‘paradise’ is, and it is never explained why of all things, it’s an elephant is being portrayed as the ‘girl’, the women younger self.

The Semantic Code (SEMANTIC or LINGUISTIC CODE)

In a Literal meaning the caged elephant running way, may just mean represent how everyone wants freedom, but the I think it has a deeper meaning of being caged or imprisoned as a ‘girl’, in the guidance and care of her parents.

As a child she wanted to escape a see the world or even return to a specific place but was held back.

but thinking deeper the elephants in real life get connected easily to other elephants like legitimate friends, through the whole video the elephant is trying to find the rest of the band.. maybe that’s the meaning, the connection of family.

The Symbolic Code (SYMBOLISM) The images I have used are all

representations of what the artist believed to be paradise and what she was always looking for, a place to Belong.

But in the original music video, the elephant returns to it’s home and finds it’s friends/ family, to which this may symbolise the that true paradise is found with others.

Pictures Meaning

I chose these images as the possible meaning of the song follows the concept of the art collection which was inspired by her world trip visiting some of the worlds most beautiful locations.

Also after studying her work in GSCE Art I found that this particular form of art and this particular collection could represent the freedom are desire to see the world with in myself.

How it represents me?

Through the meaning of the song it shows what want to do in my future, escape to a better place and find somewhere I belong.

Through the images, the original concept behind the collection was the light in the dark, what lies on the horizon, this represents me well as people see me as a dark, negative person, a mask I made which is only skin deep, but capable of suppressing the real me.