Snow patrol Chasing cars

"Chasing Cars" is a popular ballad by Snow Patrol released in July 2006 as the third single from the band's fourth record "Eyes Open". It peaked at #6 in the UK, #5 in the US and #5 on the Billboard Modern Rock/Alternative Singles Chart. The song became popular in the US after being featured on the television show "Grey's Anatomy" and has remained extremely popular in the UK, remaining on the UK Top 75 for a non-consecutive 85 weeks and still running.According to the Chasing Cars Song facts, frontman Gary Lightbody wrote this in the garden of producer Garret "Jacknive" Lee's cottage after a white wine binge. He has since said that it's "the most pure and open love song I've ever written.

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Here we can see, the song is timeless, in my opinion songs with the indie genre have a timeless feel to them. As you can see from the second comment the song reminds them of their childhood, but it wasn’t just this comment which comment on this there was quite a few comments on this. I think there is an automatic connection with the audience, because it is aimed at teenagers upwards and most of this age group have gone through a heartbreak or waiting for the right time.

Snow patrol- Chasing cars The Lyrics of the song are a huge statement for the song, due to one of the lines being ‘if I lay here’ and throughout the video he is lying on the floor singing the lyrics, so definitely linking to Andrew Goodwin’s theory, it has a visual style, and amplifies the lyrics to the audience. In my opinion I don’t really like this music video due to the fact its not very visually stimulating, but that could be the idea behind the video to show the boredom of waiting for the love of his life.

As we can see he is representing the lyrics, in a way this could represent the loneliness which he has felt, because there isn't anyone around, but also its almost like hi life has stood still but everyone's life carries on as a normal, which could link to the boredom factor.

For the final shot we see the main singer, laying on a bed waiting for love of his life, this links to Richard Dyer’s, theory of a star image. Its almost like he is waiting for you to buy the song, and then his life starts. But this another video which is very much for a patriarchy society.

There are a couple of Binary opposite in this music video which sums up the whole video…

Strong vs. Weak in my opinion, the lead singer is the weaker person because he waiting for his love and the female is the strong one due to the one who has the power. Which then links onto the next binary opposite….

Patriarchy vs. Feminism in my opinion, this particular video challenges the normal views that men have more power than women, but I think this video connotes that women have equal power.

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