Head Over Heels
Tears For Fears
'Head Over Heels' is a New Wave song with a performance video (with some aspects of narrative). Contrary to Goodwin's theory, 'Head Over Heels' does not develop motifs which occur across the artist's videos; while this is lighthearted, Tears For Fears tend to have solemn and melancholy videos.
There is often an illustrative link between the music and the video; at 0:31, when the singer places a stack of books onto the counter the verse starts with a bass-line. There is then a shot-reverse-shot between the man and the woman, which changes perspective after a line of lyrics and during a couple of piano notes. These quick edits happen throughout the video, usually after the singer takes a breath after singing a line.
When the chorus is introduced at 1:11 the singer's movements become ridged and stiff, and he moves in time to the beats in the music. On the second chorus at 2:22, however, the singer appears to be floating around the library with a panning shot following him. This chorus includes a constant close-up of the singer, fitting Goodwin's convention that the record label will demand lots of shots of the singer/band.
At 2:15, the lyrics directly correspond with the video as the singer holds a fake gun while singing 'it's hard to be a man when there's a gun in your hand'. This contradicts with the rest of the video, which largely consists of random and irrelevant images which have no correspondence with the lyrics. For example, at 2:05 there is a man in a gas mask reading a book and at 2:03 which shows a chimp reading in between a man and a woman. This demonstrates New Wave genre characteristics which was a movement going against generic attributes of 80's pop.
Another case where the lyrics link to the video is the ending at 4:06, where the line 'funny how time flies' is accompanied by a flash-forward to an aged singer and his wife - ending the video.
