Music Videos

Music videos can be an amazing story. I love listening to music with a meaning, and watching the music videos that go with them. I do not really watch music videos that often at all, but when I do there are always two types of music videos, ones that tell a story, and ones that are literally pointless and stupid. One of the most powerful music videos I have ever watched is the song Savin' Me by Nickelback.

This song has a very powerful message about our mortality. In this video, at the very beginning, a man is saved from getting hit by a car. After this the man that was saved starts seeing numbers above everyone's head that are counting down. He then sees an old woman taken into an ambulance and her numbers hit zero and she dies, so the man now realizes the numbers he sees above everyone's head is the countdown to their death. The man is troubled by being able to see when everyone is going to die. At the end of the video he saves a woman who's countdown almost hit zero, and he then walks away and now the woman can see the numbers and he no longer can.
I think the meaning behind this is that, if you could see these numbers, you have the ability to save someone from dying. So, you have to save them before time runs out. This guy has the unique opportunity to be able to save someone, and he takes that chance before time runs out. I think one of the most important things in life is realizing that we don't know how long we have on this world, so we need to make the most of it. Also, we do not know if a conversation with a loved one will be the last time we speak to them, so always say I love you before you leave a loved one, no matter what. Overall, I think this music video is trying to say, make the most of your life before time runs out.