The girl was tired of her boring, monotonous adult life full of forced structure and routine, the last straw was when her boyfriend broke up with her. So she fantasised about a childlike utopia as she felt she was happier when she was a child. She created this safe haven in the woods as that is where many of her childhood fairy stories took place and she filled it with furniture so that it looked like a dolls' house, using furniture like that from her old favourite film- Calamity Jane. Her favourite bears from her youth became her new companions that would never want to leave, and she creates teddy bears picnics for them like in the nursery rhyme, and tea parties like that from Alice in Wonderland, so she could feel she was now in a world without structure and routine.
The music video begins when she is exploring the woods around her newly made home and appreciating the nature which she didn't often get to see within her normal city life, she then puts the finishing touches on the table and begins to play with the bears. She puts on make-up before the meal and then sets up a teddy bears' picnic for them, including food and an unusual looking drink from the tea pot to make it look more magical but after she clears it away she realises she is still unhappy and takes some of it apart. But when she begins to feel more connected to the realness that is nature she becomes happier again and decides to go on with her own life and let this time become a happy memory, shown through the way the shots at the end begin to look more like photos.
From this backstory/ narrative we now know that in our piece we will be including intertextual references from; Calamity Jane, fairy tales, the teddy bears' picnic, and Alice in Wonderland.
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