Can’t Stand Me Now

JJ, Marisa, Kirsty & Amelia

The Libertines were an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât (vocals/guitar) and Pete Doherty (vocals/guitar). The band, centred on the songwriting partnership of Barat and Doherty, also included John Hassall (bass) and Gary Powell (drums) for most of its recording career. The band was part of the garage rock revival and spearheaded the movement in the UK"Can't Stand Me Now" is the first single from The Libertines eponymous second album. The song was their biggest hit and peaked at #2 on the UK singles chart.

The band have been known for there rebellious repetition with heavy drink and drugs. And the feud which went on with the band causing problems and breakups throughout there recording career.

It has been implied in the past that the song is about carl and Pete friendship and the struggles with in the band due to Pete's heavy drug abuse.

Can’t Stand Me Now• An ending fitting for the startYou twist and tore our love apartYour light fingers threw the dartShattered the lamp into darkness it cast us...

No, you've got it the wrong way roundJust shot me up and blamed it on the brownCornered the boy kicked out at the world, The world kicked back a lot fuckin' harder now...

If you wanna try, If you wanna tryThere's no worse you could do (oh oh oh)I know you lie, I know you lieI'm still in love with you (oh oh oh)

Can't take me anywhere (I'll take you anywhere)You can't take me anywhere (I can't take you anywhere)I'll take you anywhere you wanna go!

Oh, you can't stand me now (No, you can't stand me now)You can't stand me now (Oh, you can't stand me now)You can't stand me now (No, you can't stand me now)You can't stand me now,You can't stand me now!

Have we enough to keep it together?Or do we just keep on pretending And hope our luck is never endingYou tried to pull the wool, I wasn't feeling too cleverAnd you take all that they're lendingUntil you needed mending...

If you wanna try, If you wanna trythere's no worse you could do (oh oh oh)I know you lie, all you do is make me cryAnd all these words they aint true (oh oh)

I can't take me anywhere (I can't take you anywhere)You can't take me anywhere (I'll take you anywhere)I'll take you anywhere you wanna go!

Oh, you can't stand me now (No, you can't stand me now)You can't stand me now (Oh, you can't stand me now)You can't stand me now (No, you can't stand me now)You can't stand me now (No, you can't stand me now)You can't stand me now!You can't stand me now!You can't stand me now!No, you can't stand me now!You can't stand me now!You can't stand me now!No, you can't stand me now!Producer : Mick JonesGenre : Garage rock, post-punk revivalFormat : CD, 7"Released : August 9, 2004Length : 3:23Label : Rough Trade Records

Narrative

• Girl rebels against parents • Parents saying all the way through that she

cant stand them but at the end she shouts well you cant stand me

Locations

• Town late at night scenes • House for bedroom scenes getting ready and

coming in at night• Dining room • Car scenes • Street corner time laps

Scenes• Parents going out for a meal waiting for there daughter at the table with empty space, camera jumps to there

daughter dancing on a table.• Rewind come through the door messed up from the night out then looks in the mirror (camera) rewinds her

getting ready.• Inspiration taken from the following clip

• Time laps on a street corner waiting for a car to come pick her up and older boy in the car, getting ready in the back seat for school

• Black and white when showing her parents then her in colour• Dad looking through photo albums whilst doing this he falls asleep on her bed waiting for her to come in then

she stumbles across him when she comes home which is where the story starts at the beginning.• The backwards scene at the beginning through out the story the audience are shown how she ended up like this.

Shots

• In the car over the shoulder shot • In the mirror eye line match of where the boy is

looking whilst she’s getting ready for school in the back of the car

• Hand held shaky coming in drunk the fading colour from black and white leaving the photos in colour.

• Close up of parents faces and eye line matches when they keep looking at the clock

Mise en scene

• Girl- short clothing heavy make up • -broken heals laddered tights and messed up

make up • Parents – well dressed• Boy – scrubby raggy clothing

Performance

• Dad singing parts of the song as if he’s saying these words to his daughter.

• Band performance for parts of the song • Possible locations: stages, garage, grungy

outside location • Lead singer in the band is the same boy as the

boy she is seen with.