Narrative Analysis.

One of the narrative theories that apply to this music video is Tim O'Sullivan's. This applies to it because Tim O'Sullivan states that all music videos tell us a story not usually about our personal stories but about our stories within our culture. This is shown through this music video because it is a story about a girl who has cancer, and how it progresses and gets gradually worse but she still gets her dream in the end. This is a story that Rascal Flatts aren't familiar with personally but a story that many people around the world can relate to.
Another theorist that this video links in with is Kate Domaille. She states that every story can be fitted into one of eight narrative types. This music video can easily fit in with the Cinderella narrative. This narrative suggest that the dreams come true for the person in the video. This is true for this video because each chorus is saying how the girl is dreaming of dancing with her true love, and the video shows her vision with a scene where she is seen dancing with a boy whilst she has all of her hair. At the end of the video the chorus is changed from the words 'She dreams she's dancing' to 'They go dancing', this shows that her dream has come true as we can see her dancing with her true love.
Sven Carlsson's theory also applies to this music video. He states that music videos fall into two rough groups, performance clips and conceptual clips. Performance clips are purely the artists/s signing or dancing, and a conceptual clip is when the music video contains something else during its duration. This music video would be a conceptual clip. This is because although there is a performance element to the video, there is also a narrative to it. This is shown through the series of pictures showing the girl going through the stages of her cancer. It isn't pure narrative though because there is also a lot of performance from the band shown within the clip.