Analysis Of Queen "Body Language" by Tom Lane

The band Queen are a British Rock band formed in 1971 with Band members, John Deacon, Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor. This video was the first video to be banned by MTV due to the "thinly veiled homoerotic undertones plus lots of skin and lots of sweat". The song was released in 1982 and was of the dance/funk genre. Reached number 25 on the UK charts. However, it did far better in the U.S., where it peaked at 11.

In the video women are objectified, which is typical of music videos in order to entice an audience. this is shown here:



There artist (Queen, they are shown individually and as a group) is heavily featured in the music video with is shown in this image of Brian May:



There is lip synching in the music video, which is used to pretend that the artist (or person in the narrative) is singing the song and the audience understands that they are telling the story. This is shown in the image below:



Performance doesn't appear to be used during the music video (instruments not Lip Synching) although the band appear to be performing without instruments in this shot:



The Video also contains some abstract sequences, this is shown in this shot:



Finally the music video is 4:42 which is between the 3-5 minutes that most music videos are:



This is the actual music video; Body Language by Queen;