Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better
As a narrative music video it tells a visual story to match the lyrics of the song. The video begins with a minute long introduction, perhaps giving context to the two characters the song is about. The video contradicts the lyrics in a way, as the narrator describes seeing a woman he loves leave a gathering with someone else, in the first verse. However, the music video takes place in a high school gym.
In the first verse, the lyric 'Then I heard they slept together' is sung, illustrating this lyric is an image of the girl character having sex with a man dressed as a gorilla, referred to in the song as 'Trevor'. The reason for the Trevor character being represented as a gorilla may be because the main character, perhaps the narrator himself singing the song, sees Trevor as a idiot and a fool much like monkeys typical behaviour. The next lyric is 'Oh, the less I know the better'. Again the video illustrates this lyric by showing a close-up of the male character with ribbons over his eyes.
The characters in this video lip sync the words throughout the song as if they are thinking and saying them to themselves and each other, an example of this is when the girl lip syncs the lyric 'You should try your luck with Heather'. Its as if she is saying it to the ale character as she is with Trevor instead.
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