Because it’s mysterious, it’s the highlight of the video. We might never know why he dies with it, but we have a sense about the abstract concept of it. He brings it to death with him, as if it was something that implies himself, as if it was something in which he stores his love and all the feelings he has, as if it was his heart or the heavy thoughts in his mind. The point is he kills himself with that piano. The video ends with the man standing in the middle of oncoming traffic and a truck is running towards him while he keeps singing “I would die for you….but you wouldn’t do the same”. His whine affects people’s emotion who did or do have the same situation. He’s singing the last lines of the chorus as if he was whining, “I’d still catch a grenade for ya…”. After being rejected, he continues on the road with the piano. This scenario can relate to a lot of people who are madly in love, sacrifice all they have but get nothing than ignorance. The line “Gave you all I had….and you tossed it in the trash” is what best describes the girl’s reaction. He’s been hauling the piano just as he’s been bearing those things all his life. The piano symbolizes his sufferings, his thoughts and his sadness. He would rather sing out loud to express his love and the piano is played as a means to deliver his message: “I’d catch a grenade for ya, throw my hand on a blade for ya, jump in front of a train for ya…” He keeps repeating those refrains to show that he would endure all the craziest and dangerous things for his woman such as pulling a heavy piano all the way to her house.
Even his fictional character is also a singer. Why would he do that? Why a piano? This recalls us the man is Bruno Mars, a singer. Most of the scenes then are about the man, in a suit, dragging an upright piano through the streets of busy traffic and gangsters to get to the girl’s house. He’s asking “Why were they open?” just to emphasize that she never actually loved him. This gives us a feeling of a one-sided relationship. In the picture, her eyes were “wide open” while his eyes were closed. People usually kiss with their eyes closed so that their brains can be immersed in such passionate feeling. “Should have known you were trouble from the first kiss….had your eyes wide open”. She has accepted all his sacrifices and his love but he gets nothing in return. “Easy come, easy go…Take it all but you never give”. The character is a brokenhearted man who has so much pain and disappointment as we can see how he hides himself in the dark. Why is it raining? The rainy scene symbolizes sadness or distress that indirectly implies the character’s mood. The video starts with rain and a lonely man singing inside in the dark. It could also mean he “would catch a grenade” for this girl who he loves more than his own life. “Grenade” could maybe indicate the girl who broke the man’s heart just like the bomb blast that kills people. What is “grenade”? The title doesn’t mean simply a small kind of explosive chemical weapon. I chose the song because not only the lyrics, but the MV has many details that stuck in my mind. This topic might not surprise you much but the song’s video tells a whole lot of other meanings.
It talks about the never-ending struggles and anger of a man (Bruno Mar’s fictional character) who is willing to sacrifice everything for his girlfriend. However, “Grenade” by Bruno Mars is a different case.
Normally, these types of videos can be exaggeratedly sentimental and easy to predict. The song I’m analyzing creates a common argument about heartbroken love stories.
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