Titanium 500 Word Essay

Titanium Music Video

"Titanium", a song produced by David Guetta featuring vocals from Australian artist Sia, tells the tale of a young boy with supernatural powers. The boy tries to overcome these powers and suppress them, leading to the destruction of a school hallway and eventually (at the end of the video) an explosion. The song carries messages of inner strength with the lyrics "Shoot me down, but I wont fall" and "I'm bulletproof". Using guns, which carry heavy connotations of violence, as a representation of how society can supress and degrade people.
The song also holds links to Guetta's life. Growing up in a Muslim family, Guetta was frowned upon for trying to pursue a career in music. Revealing his father was enraged and wanted him to do something else for his future.
He proved that he would make a career in music whether they liked it or not. Which remains to be the message behind both the lyrics and the video of this song. No matter how much people push you down, you must always get back up, hence the lyric "you shoot me down, but I won't fall". Showing how inner strength can get you much further than others opinions on you.
This is also evident in the Chorus where Sia, the lead vocalist, sings about being bulletproof. Meaning no matter what you throw at her it wont damage her, with a continuing motif of the metal alloy "Titanium", which carries heavy connotations of being strong and durable.
At the start of the video the camera starts with extreme close ups on both the boy and the carnage and chaos resultant from his superpowers. Then we see an extreme long shot revealing the boy sitting in the centre of this carnage, the camera is placed slightly above the boy leading to this representation of innocence and frailty. With a mid close up of the boys face as he starts to stand up and walk away from the chaos he made. Perhaps reflecting the message of the video to stand up and face your fears or believe in yourself. The boy runs away from the mess he made and tries to forget about this catastrophe. He then puts a red, woolly hat on perhaps to express his desire to hide and run from this experience, further portraying the message to believe in yourself. A little later in the video the boy arrives home to a mess in his house, he then turns around to see a news report on the T.V stating the supernatural occurrence in the school, he then grabs a bag and runs to his room, with stuffed teddy bears and toys strewn around his bed and the floor. He then throws this teddy bear perhaps symbolising the boy throwing away his childhood and running from his life. When various police officers arrive in the boys room, all the toys and bears are floating in the air, symbolising the act of letting go. As the video goes on the time of day slowly ticks to night time. Representing the gradual dying of the light and growing of the boys powers, to conclude with the explosion at the end happening in almost complete darkness. This could further represent the message of the video being no matter how dark things may get you will always shine, symbolised by the yellow glow emanating from the boy before the explosion.