The video both amplifies and contrasts the lyrics, but only loosely for amplifying it the as they have semantics of fighting which I feel are shown when the child is trying to beat the computer in the game of chess, and briefly touches on the lip syncing part but only with ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. But the main contrast comes in the form of the video containing hardly any singing from band members or the subjects of the video.
Unlike lyrical visuals the music does tie in with the visuals when we see the ginger child air drumming in time with the drums in the song
As a group Sleigh Bells genre is classed by Wikipedia as Noise Pop and Dance-Punk which is very diverse and after knowing this the video for Riot Rhythm starts to make sense, the dance and pop elements come out in the colors with yellows, greens, pinks ad blues. But then we see a hint of punk when it starts to rain and the child is dancing in the mud bare foot. I also see a bit of indie coming through with the computer being in the middle of the park
In terms of Voyeurism this video highly lacks in it the only part where it hints at it is when you see the evil cheerleaders
The video has reference to an era rather than film, tv or other music. The references comes in the form of the rubix cube, the computer and chess which are all associated with the late 70’s early 80’s. The style of dress and hair is also familiar with the 70’s
