Arctic Monkeys – Knee Socks Meaning

It's obviously about Alexa. Alex has confirmed that the lyrics on AM centre around heartbreak. Arielle was his current girlfriend. Actually the only songs that are clearly inspired by her are R U Mine? and Arabella.

- Alexa used to wear knee socks back when they dated

- Alex broke up with Johanna in January, he met Alexa in April = You cured my January blues

- From middle 2012 to the end of 2013 Alexa co-hosted Fuse News = I got a feeling I might have lit the very fuse (Alex uses the word "fuse" in Fireside too, another song about Alexa)

- His valentine's poem for Alexa reveals they didn't get together right away after they met "The idea that you may kiss it [his mouth] again is stuck in my brain, which hasn’t stopped thinking about you since well BEFORE any kiss." = You were a stranger in my phonebook I was acting like I knew

- Alexa moved to America with Alex because of her show It's On with Alexa Chung, which was cancelled in December 2009 (a winter month) = When the winter is in full swing and your dreams just aren’t coming true

- They are not together anymore = You and me could have been a team – do you wanna show this in the video if so, how?

Ideas

• Beginning - Have the Actors/Band out on the streets or in the car having a laugh with each other, when the lead sees a girl he likes (slow Motion Turn of the head to show he can’t take his eyes of her while friends are joking in the background(blurred out)) you mean like out of focus? As blurring out after filming would be slightly cheesy (as seen in example vids from school - Charlotte)

• The video can be about those two getting together and being together for the time being and the break up at the end of the video (Meaning of the song)

• Somehow incorporate knee socks into the video (without it being too awkward) explicitly focus on them or just acknowledge that they are there?

• When the song goes “I got a feeling that I might have lit the very fuse that you were trying not to light” I was thinking if I can get some sparklers (I know its cringey) but actually video either of the boys actually lighting it and then looking at the camera directly to show that it was done on purpose… as it goes hand in hand with what the lyrics says (just a suggestion)

• I was thinking if we film the entire song in the school recording studio in Music and then for bits such as “Like the beginning of mean streets, you could be my baby” we add that footage in because we cannot really do anything to recreate that.. Actually I was thinking for all the bits where we cannot physically film anything as a narrative, we add the bits from the footage we will shoot in the studio to fill in the gap as we need some sort of performance material evident in the video too.

Actors

• Jacob

• Joe

• ...

• In terms of girl(s) – Molly Preston, Beth Grayson

• In terms of boys – Travis Mowe, Callum Briers and possibly Luke Stuart – will see when we get closer as to whether he will be needed or not, otherwise will make do with Jacob, Joe, Trav and Callum.