SOPHIE's 'Faceshopping' as (Anti-)Lyric Video.
In previous studies of music video's semiotic triumvirate of music– image–text, it is most common to focus on the first two and more or less ignore the role played by words – perhaps because lyrics only rarely strike us as the most prominent part of this totality of communicative layers in music vid...
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