Extending a songs meaning is when the audience who are viewing the the music video or listening to the lyrics extend the meaning of the song, they do this by adding their own theory as to what the song is about or what the song means. They will try and understand fully where the artists was coming from when creating the specific lyrics that where chosen. An audience will extend a song when they are trying to bring the meaning together. An example of a song and video that can be closely looked at is Coldplay scientist. The songs lyrics come across a love story narrative. They relate back to relationships and relationship dilemmas and issues. If you listen to the lyrics properly you would think a couple where having issues and he feels as though they are going round and round in circles and the issues cannot be fixed, you would think it is a simple love song. However, the meaning of the song does not necessarily come clear until the very end where a car crash scene takes place. From this you can now see that the entire time the song is about him apologising for crashing and him not being able to fix her not fix the relationship. Through the time from the beginning of the song near to the end the audience is left to extend the meaning of the song and are given the opportunity to put their own meaning onto what story is being given. Not only are the audience able to extend the meaning but so is the artists himself. He has managed to produce a successful song about relationships when there is actually a whole other meaning on top of that. The title of the song “The Scientist” has a huge relation to the song that becomes fully understandable at the end. The idea is that all he wants to do is be able to fix her referring back to the scientist but he is not able to.
This is a clip of coldplay scientist
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