Sober- Childish Gambino (Music Video Research)



The music video starts of in a takeaway place with a young girl drinking some soda by herself, and then the camera looks upwards showing the main artist Childish Gambino looking directly at the girl also sitting on his own. She then notices that she is being observed and awkwardly looks at her phone to avoid eye contact. Gambino then walks over to her, clearly in a state of intoxication because of the way he stumbles over being barely able to walk in a straight line. They have given the artist make up to make him look this way, possibly to make it easier for the audience to understand the narrative/performance. Then the main artist starts conveying the words of the song into hand  movements. The girl them decides to walk away, potentially from feeling uncomfortable by the situation. Then Gambino starts dancing along to the music as if attempting to communicate with her again, he then proceeds to get an egg out of his pocket, crack it open and give her a message inside which states 'I'm so high'. The dancing gets crazier and crazier until he finally receives a reaction from her which come In the form of a smile. The girl then goes to get her takeaway food and leaves the place without any form of goodbye. As soon as she leaves Childish Gambino sits back in the same place in the same way all on his own. I think its supposed to represent his loneliness as he has broken out of a relationship, so now he's always high and never sober, possibly to drown away his sorrows. The way I interpret the music video is that he is trying to gain another chance but the fact that he's always intoxicated seems to be the downfall of the situation. If my music could apply some dancing choreography like that of this video, it would ultimately stand out from other students videos and show our dedication to this task.


Final Music Video