First of all, we need to establish what genre the song "Stacy's Mom" falls into, and then what this entails to end up having a very effective end product in the music video (as well as the magazine advert and digipack cover).
Genre
"Power Pop" is a popular musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum. Recordings tend to display production values that lean towards compression and a forceful drum beat. Instruments usually include one or more electric guitars, an electric bass guitar, a drum kit, and sometimes electric keyboards or synthesisers. While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, power pop is among rock’s most enduring subgenres and leading to the very similar genre "Pop Punk" , and has been labelled as a happy medium in mainstream popularity.
The main thing we can take from this description of the genre, is what "air band" instruments to use, i.e. multiple guitars, and drums, without using others that we may think are in the song but not quite sure.
With 3 members of the group (myself included) in the band for the video, we can now decide on how to split the roles,
i.e. a drum player, and two guitar players (one lead vocals, one back-up vocals)
The genre is also very upbeat, which we will be able to see by analysing other official music videos and what fans from the Power Pop genre enjoy.
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