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Before watching these videos I read all the titles and expected them to be all crazy, especially the one by My Blood Valentine. That sort of name makes me think of their songs being all wild such as screaming and lots of gothic features. To my surprise that is not what it was, it was actually kind of calming to me. It was really hard for me to listen to the actual lyrics of the songs. Most of the time I could only hear the instruments and some voices at times. I had to pull up the lyrics for each song to see what they were saying the whole time. To my surprise I actually liked the song Soon by My Blood Valentine, the lyrics were really good. I liked the part  “Come back/Don’t be/Afraid of me/Soon/That (I’ll harm you)/Your eyes are blue/Blue jewels/Yeah yeah” something about that part really stuck to me honestly.

Something else that I noticed that really struck me as odd but fascinating at the same time, were the music videos for each song. In the music video for Soon by My Blood Valentine, it made my head spin, especially in the parts of the afterimage of the hands of the guitar player. It also made my head hurt a little. I’ve never seen music videos like this before, most of the music videos that I have seen were really crazy and pop like. These were majestic and fascinating like a story. The one that had a story in the music video was the song Lorelei by the Cocteau Twins. All the transitions between running in the grass to the girl staring out looking like she was thinking really hard about something was really well performed.

Overall I really liked the songs and music videos, they are things I have never heard or seen before, that is probably why I was so mesmerized about them.