Carrie Underwood- Blown Away Analysis (By Kirsty Guy)

'Blown Away' is a song produced by Mark Bright, a producer based in the country genre and was written by Chris Tompkins and Josh Kear. The song was recorded in 2011 by American country pop artist, Carrie Underwood, and was eventually released in 2012.
The lyrics of the song talk about how a family has been ruined by an alcoholic father and now the house is full of sins because of all the pain and misery he has bought to his daughter. Underwood sings about her drunk father and her mother being an "angel in the ground". She believes that there's not even enough wind or rain in Oklahoma (a well known state to be brought down by natural disasters in Southern America) and that a tornado may destroy the house, but the memories will still remain.
The narrative of the video is clever in the way that it links and compares to, not only the lyrics of the song, but also other popular media productions (The Wizard of Oz). The opening shot of the  video is a two shot of Underwood and her drunk father in the kitchen of their house in the middle of nowhere. The lighting of the shot is dark and black and white effect suggests that her life is dull and it also sets the mood of the whole narrative and shows the negativity in the atmosphere within the broken family. This first image, shows Underwood pushing her father away when he is trying to help her with her history homework, she doesn't want his help because she doesn't want to thank him for anything because of everything he has put her through. The costumes of the characters in the narrative are typical for country people. Underwood wears red boots which relates to the musical, The Wizard of Oz. In the musical, Dorothy's home gets blown away in the wind of a tornado, and Underwood sings about this not affecting the fact that the memories will remain in the same place forever, no matter how many tornados, or how much rain there is. There is a dog at the end of the video which also relates to this idea and theme. However, it also represents a friend for life, and even after being through so much, she still has her best friend who will never let her down like her father did.