No Doubt- Don’t Speak Goodwins Theory

Andrew Goodwin’s Theory• Based on 8 main princables:1. Links between lyrics and visuals2. Links between music and visuals

(Contradicting, Amplification and complimentary)

3. Genre characteristics4. Intertextual reference5. Notion of looking (representation of

women)6. Voyeurism (direct gaze, other people

looking at artist, insight into artist life, mirrors and screens)

7. Demands of the record label 8. Performance, narrative and concept

based videos

• I will relate this theory directly with the song by No Doubt called Don’t Speak.

• The group are an American Rock band with a fusion of ska punk, pop rock and punk rock. They changed their image slightly by adding an Jamaican/ Reggae.

Lyrics and Visuals

• The lyrics in the song resemble the relationship between 2 people which are going through a break up, however when you watch the video, the 2 parties in the relation ship are lead singer Gwen Stafani and the rest of the band. Gwen becomes main priority in the bands image the other band members are getting left behind and don’t like it. The songs lyrics represent how the singer knows how they feel she doesn’t need them to tell her that.

Genre Characteristics • With rock music the conventions are to have many shots of

the instruments. As No Doubt are a rock band in the video there are many shots off all the artists in the band either singing or playing their instruments. There’s part’s of the video where it contains actual footage of the band performing at one of their concerts. They use their whole bodies in order to put on a show for their fans, for example head banging and jumping up and down.

Notion of looking and voyeurism • There are many close up shots within the

video where the band members are giving Gwen Stefani dirty looks to represent their anger and jealousy they have for her. This shows to the viewer what the lyrics really do represent, rather than the viewer just thinking the song is part of a break up.

Demands of the record label • The video has a section where the whole band go on a photo

shoot for a magazine company and as they’re all having fun get photographed the directors ask for the other band members to leave and ask for Stefani to stay. The company end up only using the single shot of Gwen on her own for the front cover of their issue. This could be representative of what actually happened in real life with No Doubts record label.

Performance, narrative and concept

• Don’t Speak is heavily performance based as for the duration of the music video the band are performing the song and the viewer see’s this happening. However, there is an element of narrative as they have the story through the video being that the band are splitting due to Gwen Stefani becoming the main attraction of the band.