Guns N’ Roses embodied in the videos for “Don’t Cry”, “November Rain” and “Estranged”, a tragic love story that transcends even life Photo: Jovani Pérez
Guns N’ Roses released the albums Use Your Illusion I and II in January 1990.
“Without You”, a short story featured in the book “The Language of Fear” by Del James, inspired the Guns N Roses trilogy
“The cold is a metaphor. It shows someone trapped in time and space, there’s not even reality of where the person was at that moment, it’s like a past life”, declared Axl Rose about the opening scene of “Don’t Cry”.
The scene where Slash plays the solo of “Don’t Cry” represents the death and ascension of the spirit
Axl Rose would have recorded 1990 as the date of his death because it was a very difficult year for him, where thoughts of suicide were increasingly intense
The greenish version of Axl Rose represents the singer’s inner demons
Axl Rose takes sleeping pills at the beginning of “November Rain” and begins to dream of a past life
“November Rain” begins with a wedding and ends with the bride’s funeral
Fading flowers represent the end of all happiness
Water is a very important element in the trilogy, and in each video it works to represent a new beginning. In Don’t Cry, Axl appears to be choking, refusing to change; November Rain, the rain announces the death of his beloved, forcing him to live a completely different life than planned. In Estranged, Axl searches for the water with the intention that he can start over.
“dolphins symbolize a state of grace and peace,” stated Axl Rose on Estranged
At the end of “Estranged” one of Rose’s sneakers falls into the water as a reference that she has left behind the person she once was.
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