Narrative Video Analysis - Same Love by Macklemore, Ryan Lewis and Mary Lambert

Type	Characters
The Hero	The guy who he marries, accepts his ethnicity and colour
The Villian	Those who don’t accept peoples race and ethnicity because of their religion
The Enabler	The Vicar or those who brought in a law to legalise gay marriages
The Princess	In this case, the main character, he gets walked down the aisle by his mother on his wedding day
The False Hero	Friend at the beginning of the narrative – helps him to sneak out to go to the school dance but leaves him on his own to go with another girl
The Helper	Those who accept gay marriages

Equilibrium – 0:00 – 1:24 : Narrative of baby being born and then growing up as a young straight boy, playing with boys, going on dates with girls, playing American football, doing all of these things would stereotypically present him as a straight boy, but in the lyrics the singer is singing about knowing he was gay no matter what activities he played with boys or how much his parents wanted him to like girls.

The narrative is then disrupted with famous and non-famous historic flashbacks of religion and American events.

This song doesn’t follow Goodwins theory of narrative as the singer of the song is not the main character in the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0