When choosing a music video that actually has a meaning, its hard to find one that visually has some in depth meaning. The video "Someday" by Nickelback is one that I immediately thought of, because unless you pay attention to all the visual things within the video, you won't be able to see the real message.
The video starts in the home of a boy and girl. The boy just sits there as the girl hysterically cries over a newspaper article. She slams it down spilling a glass of milk all over the floor. We see a glimpse of the newspapers title, and it says "man in bridge" and nothing else. The girl then walks through the pile of milk and leaves footprints towards the door, but when the boy walks through, there are no visual footprints where he walked, giving us our first clue that something is wrong.
Our next visual is her getting into her car, and the boy is desperately trying to stop her, but she can't seem to hear him or is paying attention as she drives off down the street, leaving him behind. As he is chasing after the car, we see her glance into her review mirror, and where the boy should be chasing after her, is just the empty street.
The use of a stoplight changing from yellow to red let's us guess that she is running a red light in her car. She is then hit by a semi-truck in the driver's seat. A crowd gathers around the vehicle to see what has happened, but emerging through the crowd, first as a small ball of light, and then into a human is the girl, walking from the accident. She embraces the boy and by looking at their faces, we can see that they are both at peace. At a nearby newspaper stand, we are shown the front page of the newspaper. On it is a picture of the boy and the heading of "Man dies in tragic bridge accident".
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