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Updated: Sep 22, 2022

However, the music video 'TOO BIG FOR YOUR BOOTS' by STORMZY represents him as being from a suburban background with a negative background. The establishing shot shows him and other social groups surrounding him with his name 'STORMZY' anchoring him as an artist in the industry.


The narrative shows the empowerment, he is saying that no matter what your background is or where you are from you can change your life and become like him. He surrounds himself with mostly everyone apart from children. The characters in the music video are from different ethnic groups and we also see flashing lights which evokes the idea of police and criminality relating back to the idea that you can still change your life. The locations in the video are very significant as he is seen at a:

- Pub

- Apartment Building

- On the street

- In central London

- Deprived area

- Street life again for from a different perspective

- Chicken shop

- He's showing St. Georgias' flag anchoring him as a UK artist.



The shot of him and his girlfriend (at that time) positions them to look like a power couple and as if they are one team. She isn't represented in a stereotypical way, she's actually presented to look just as strong as him just like every other female character in this music video. The picture below with STORMZY and a group of men show the location of 'Street' life from another perspective. This perspective is different as it is in a deprived area while the first apartment building was located in London which helps to anchor STORMZY as a British artist.















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