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  Cover Wpsiatwinjpg
  Artist Arctic Monkeys
  Album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
  Released January 23 , 2006
  Track No 1
  Recorded September , 2005
  Genre Indie Rock
  Length 2:53
  Writers Alex Turner , Jamie Cook
  Label Domino
  Producer Jim Abiss
  Next I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
  Next No 2


  Name The View from The Afternoon
  Cover whothefarethearcticmonkeyspromojpg
  Artist Arctic Monkeys
  Album Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys
  Released April 24 , 2006
  Track No 1
  Next Cigarette Smoker Fiona
  Next No 2


"The View From The Afternoon" is a song by Arctic Monkeys originally released on the band's first Album '' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not '' in January 2006 . It was also the lead track on the '' Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys '' EP . This release had an accompanying video.


THEMES


The themes of ''The View from the Afternoon'' are based around observations of behaviour on an excursion into local nightlife. In a repeated verse, the singer comments on the expectation that an evening being enjoyable will likely lead to disappointment. The singer describes various scenes; a group of meretricious females who have rented a Limousine for a Fancy Dress party; a gambler who has won and then lost the Jackpot on a Fruit Machine ; Text Messaging through the lock/unlock function on a Nokia mobile phone; "two for the price of one" drinks promotions, which the singer explicitly blames for the drunkenness of the sender and his predicament.


COMPOSITION







MUSIC VIDEO


The video is based around a young male in a Parka jacket playing the drum part of the song in the middle of a courtyard between blocks of flats. Then, there is a sequence of surreal elements; a Indian schoolgirl walks past wearing plastic devil horns; three men are curious about the lone drummer and try to attract his attention while he ignores them; he is fed Milk by the schoolgirl and then a brief shot in colour of him washing himself in shallow water; a shot of man in the dark wielding a Baseball Bat ; a brief shot of the Moon which then explodes into pieces. Finally the man with the bat comes near to him and is about to strike him, but the audio stops and we see a last shot of the male being showered in what could be rain or the fragments of the moon. The video is shot in black and white.

The video is analogous to the Hindu story of Shiva (dancer, drummer and master of creation) and his devoted girl who revitalises and pays tribute to him by bathing him in milk and honey (viewed by the Hindu religion as Sacred ) and his battle against those who wish to destroy all that is good.

It was directed by W.I.Z for Factory Films .


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