As my animation is purely song based with no narrative to tell the story, I was racking my brains to think of a music video that had done the same, when I remembered 'Fantasy' by DyE.
While there are purely visuals and no dialogue (apart from the song, which doesn't really relate to the video), this video is the perfect example of getting across a story with no spoken words which really reassured me that it could be done well and has really inspired me with my own animation.
As a viewer, what I get from this video is that it is about loss of innocence in terms of sexuality.
The main character is young, probably having her first semi-sexual experience. The video takes the sort of feeling, being put through or witnessing your very first sexual experience happen before your eyes, and represents it in over the top extremes.
Everyone experiencing and promoting sex becomes some sort of ugly demon. The main character might be shy or scared of that sort of thing and doesn't seem ready. Maybe she's been scared enough to avoid it by her parents or some other sort of authority figures her whole life, but the point is that she is terrified of going there. Everyone doing it becomes something incredibly terrifying to her. And what's more is that the monsters seem to be ruining/attacking each other. The main character feels the ugliness of that sort of behaviour will not only ruin her, but others as well. So she tries to escape - in the pool.
But she cannot unsee and her world has changed, so the music video presents a completely different and ugly world after she attempts escape whilst probably feeling like her innocence is gone and the world is an uglier place.
Merely an interpretation, but again, this video is a fantastic example of a narrative with no dialogue.
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