Music Video Research (The Commodores - Brick House)

Artist: The Commodores
Song: Brick House
Camera/Editing:
The camera mainly focuses on lead singer (Lionel Richie) typically with a medium-close up although the camera does differentiate to other bands members playing, even giving a general shot of the band at times. 
Narrative:
Due to it being a performance there is a lack of narrative instantly, this is further shown with the lyrics not being represented with any visual what so ever. Conventional/Unconventional:
The concept of a performance is conventional, even it possibly being a live performance still keeps the conventionality although a possible idea you could do to try it is to cut the instruments and see if there are any vocals. To link this with my song idea the person could be humming the song and then is when the song kicks in.
What works/What doesn't:
Putting most of the camera's focus on Richie throughout I feel works as it shows him off as the standout performer, it also works with typical conventions of funk in which the camera does most of the focus on the lead singer or artist