Dizzee Rascal - Dream analysis

Dizzee Rascal - Dream analysis




The setting of the music video is taken from a TV show that used be shown in the 20th century called 'Watch with Mother'. 

At the start of the music video we see a middle class woman playing a piano and introducing the song along with Dizzee Rascal jumping out of a box rapping his verse. When comparing the music video to the TV show, it is almost as if the woman is portraying ',Mother' and Dizzee Rascal along with the background dancers/puppets are the characters within a story that she is about tell (which is his story, but being told by himself).


Shortly, after he starts his verse, a few background dancers appeared and it was almost as if they were telling a story. There was a difference in the way he and the dancers/characters appeared; he appeared as himself but the background dancers/characters were dressed as puppets and had strings attached to them, so it was almost as if they were being controlled by something (the government).

There was also representations of negative stereotypes of black people and the working class.

Negative stereotypes of black people shown in the video included things such as causing chaos in the streets whether its night or day and police having to be called deal with the situations, teenage moms who are also lone parents, unemployed youth and negative stereotypes of the working class include things such alcoholics and being unemployed e.g. from the scene where there was an alcoholic being arrested for causing a disturbance in the street.

The middle class woman appears in the video as her actual size as compared to Dizzee Rascal and the other characters, for they appear much smaller than her. They probably appear this way to show each other’s position in society and whose ideas and voice are projected onto society as ways to live.

By setting the video in this style, it is almost as if he is trying to let the audience become more aware about the way society is structured in terms of the opinion leaders (those in position of power who aim to persuade an audience of their point of view) e.g. the conservative politicians may tell the newspaper editors to focus on their views when producing newspapers for the public to read and their target audience are the working class by trying to get them to change their ways and follow the ways of the conservative party as well as telling the story about his life and how he made it to fame.

 When analysing the lyrics, you can see that juxtaposition is used by looking at Dizzee's verses and comparing it to the chorus. In verse 1 he talks about his life before the fame, then the chorus talks about being happy and that you should have a dream, in the second paragraph he talks about deciding to make his dream come true and finally in the last verse he advices his fans and those viewing the music video to peruse their dreams and change their ways.

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/dizzeerascal/dream.html -  link to the lyrics

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