Hyperreality and Intertextuality

Hyperrealism:
Hyper - “hyper” refers to over, above, or beyond.
Reality - “reality” is “the quality of being real or having an actual existence”
'A reconstruction of reality'
"Hyperreality occurs when one blends reality and fiction, and fiction wins out."

Example of hyperreal music video:




Intertextuality:
"shaping of texts' meanings by other texts."
the complex interrelationship between a text and other texts taken as basic to the creation or interpretation of the text.

Example of Intertextual Music Video:

The first part of Queen's 'I wan't to break free' was a spoof of the northern British soap opera Coronation Street, as proposed by Roger Taylor.
The video depicts Mercury as a housewife, loosely based on Bet Lynch, who wants to "break free" from his life. Although Lynch was a blonde in the soap opera, Mercury thought he would look too silly as a blonde and chose a dark wig. May plays another, more relaxed housewife based on Hilda Ogden. Deacon appears as a conservative 'grandma', while Taylor plays a schoolgirl, who like Mercury wants a different life.


"Express Yourself" music video was inspired by the Fritz Lang classic film Metropolis (1927), and featured an epigraph at the end of the video from the film: "Without the Heart, there can be no understanding between the hand and the mind"

Madonna has done many music videos involving intertextuality, such as 'Vogue' (Taken from the look of films and photography from The Golden Age of Hollywood with the use of artwork by the Art Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka and an Art Deco set design. Many of the scenes are recreations of photographs taken by noted photographer Horst P. Horst, including his famous "Mainbocher Corset", "Lisa with Turban" (1940), and "Carmen Face Massage" (1946).) 'Material Girl' - A reference to Marilyn Monroe in the film 'Gentlemen prefer blondes' (1953)

Here is an example of another intertextual reference - Michael Jacksons 'Thriller' and LMFAO 'Sexy and I Know It.'

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californiacation is an intertextual music video as it features a game styled music video