Research: Paramore - Music Magazine Advert

Media studies A2 project -

- Research into music magazine adverts -

 

Paramore - Ignorance lyrics

If I'm a bad person, you don't like me
Well I guess I'll make my own way
It's a circle
A mean cycle
I can't excite you anymore
Where's your gavel? Your jury?
What's my offense this time?
You're not a judge but if you're gonna judge me
Well sentence me to another life

Don't wanna hear your sad songs
I don't wanna feel your pain
When you swear it's all my fault
Cause you know we're not the same (no)
We're not the same (no)
Oh we're not the same
Yeah the friends who stuck together
We wrote our names in blood
But I guess you can't accept that the change is good (hey)
It's good (hey)
It's good

Well you treat me just like another stranger
Well it's nice to meet you sir
I guess I'll go
I best be on my way out
You treat me just like another stranger
Well it's nice to meet you sir
I guess I'll go
I best be on my way out

Ignorance is your new best friend
Ignorance is your new best friend

This is the best thing that could've happened
Any longer and I wouldn't have made it
It's not a war no, it's not a rapture
I'm just a person but you can't take it
The same tricks that, that once fooled me
They won't get you anywhere
I'm not the same kid from your memory
Well now I can fend for myself

Don't wanna hear your sad songs
I don't wanna feel your pain
When you swear it's all my fault
Cause you know we're not the same (no)
We're not the same (no)
Oh we're not the same
Yeah we used to stick together
We wrote our names in blood
But I guess you can't accept that the change is good (hey)
It's good (hey)
It's good

Well you treat me just like another stranger
Well it's nice to meet you sir
I guess I'll go
I best be on my way out
You treat me just like another stranger
Well it's nice to meet you sir
I guess I'll go
I best be on my way out

Ignorance is your new best friend
Ignorance is your new best friend
Ignorance is your new best friend
Ignorance is your new best friend

Well you treat me just like another stranger
Well it's nice to meet you sir
I guess I'll go
I best be on my way out
You treat me just like another stranger
Well it's nice to meet you sir
I guess I'll go
I best be on my way out
 



Research: Theory Of A Dead Man - Not Meant To Be

Media studies A2 project -

- Research into 'alternative rock' music videos -

 

 

Theory of a dead man - not meant to be lyrics

 

It's never enough to say I'm sorry
It's never enough to say I care
But I'm caught between what you wanted from me
And knowing that if I give that to you
I might just disappear

Nobody wins when everyone's losing

[Chorus:]
It's like one step forward and two steps back
No matter what I do you're always mad
And I, I can't change your mind
I know it's like trying to turn around on a one way street
I can't give you what you want
And it's killing me
And I, I'm starting to see
Maybe we're not meant to be

It's never enough to say I love you
No, it's never enough to say I try
It's hard to believe
That's theres no way out for you and me
And it seems to be the story of our lives

Nobody wins when everyone's losing

[Chorus]

There's still time to turn this around
You could be building this up instead of tearing it down
But I keep thinking
Maybe it's too late

[Chorus]

It's like one step forward and two steps back
No matter what I do you're always mad
And I, baby I'm sorry to see
Maybe we're not meant to be

 



Research:Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Media studies A2 project -

- Research into 'alternative rock' music videos -

I decided to analyse Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana because it is a very well known and popular song, I felt like it was a perfect video to analyse and because of the songs huge success, the video would be filmed and produced very well. The video is also hugely successful as I exspected and so I thought it would have some good audience pleasures and conventions that would be good to include in my music video.

Smells like teen spirit was the first single of the bands second album 'Nevermind', which went to the number one album at the start of 1992 because of smells like teen spirit, it is said that this is what launched alternative rock music into the mainstream. The smells like teen spirit video has over 100 million views on YouTube.com, the song topped the 1991 Village voice "Pazz and Jop" and melody maker year-end polls and reached number two on rolling stone's list of best singles of the year. The single reached number six on the billboard singles chart the same week that Nevermind reached number one on the albums chart. Teen Spirit hit number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and has been certified platinum.

 

 

Nirvana - smells like teen spirit lyrics

 

 



Load up on guns, bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over bored and self assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word

Hello, hello, hello, how low? [x3]
Hello, hello, hello!

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
Yay! [x3]

I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end

Hello, hello, hello, how low? [x3]
Hello, hello, hello!

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
Yay! [x3]

And I forget just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it's hard to find
Oh well, whatever, never mind

Hello, hello, hello, how low? [x3]
Hello, hello, hello!

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido

A denial !! [x9]

Research: One Ok Rock - C.h.a.o.s.m.y.t.h.

Media studies A2 project -
                                 
                                           - Research into 'alternative rock' music videos -

My third alternative rock music video that I decided to analyse was a song by Japanese rock band One Ok Rock called 'C.h.a.o.s.m.y.t.h.' This is a band that I discovered at the start of the research process and was a band that I was completely unfamiliar with, I decided to analyse this video because I thought it would put me completely out of my comfort zone.  

The band have only released 13 singles since they debuted in 2007. The band name 'One Ok Rock' originated from the time one o'clock, which was the time that the four members of the band would meet for band practise at the weekends which they called one o'c'rock' which then became one o'krock which they later seperated to become one ok rock.

One Ok Rock - C.H.A.O.S.M.Y.T.H

Aikawarazu ano koro ni hanashita Yume wo boku wa oi tsuzukete ru yo Mou kotoshi kara isogashiku naru yona ? Demo kawarazu kono basho wa aru kara

 

So everybody - ever be buddies Days we grew up are days we will treasure(show) Everybody show is begining curtain has risen Make your own storyline Dream as if you will live forever And live as if you'll die today

 

Fuzake ai tawaimonai Kudaranai hanashi wo shite wa Nakiwarai nagusame ai So owaranai uta ima utau yo Dream as if you will live forever And live as if you'll die today

 

Waru-sa ya baka mo shita ne yoku okorareta ne Tada tanoshikute sonna hibi ga zutto Tsuzuku to omotteta Kedo kizukeba otona ni nattete Sore to　tomoni yume mo dekaku natte itte Sorezore ga eranda michi e

 

We have to carry on Our lives are going on Demo kawarazu ano bashou wa aru kara

 

So everybody - ever be buddies Days we grew up are days We will treasure(show) Everybody show is begining curtain has risen Make your own storyline Dream as if you will live forever And live as if you'll die today

 

Fuzake ai　tawaimonai Kudaranai hanashi wo shite wa Nakiwarai nagusame ai So owaranai uta ima utau yo Dream as if you will live forever And live as if you'll die today

 

We all, we all Have unforgettable and precious treasure It lost forever, it's lost forever

 

Toki ga tachi oite itte mo Kakegae no nai takaromo no wa Me ni mienu katachi janai Taisetsuna memory Kore　kara saki mo zutto isshou zutto...

 

So everybody - ever be buddies Days we grew up are days we will treasure(show) Everybody show is begining curtain has risen Make your own storyline Dream as if you will live forever And live as if you'll die today

 

Fuzake ai tawaimonai Kudaranai hanashi wo shite wa Nakiwarai nagusame ai So owaranai uta ima utau yo Dream (Oh yeah) as if you will live forever (Will live forever) And live as if you'll die today

Research: Oasis - The Importance Of Being Idle

Media studies A2 project -
                                 
                                           - Research into 'alternative rock' music videos -

The second alternative rock music video that I analysed for my research in music videos was a song by Oasis called 'The importance of being idle'. I was also very familiar with this song but had never seen the video, I felt like it was important that I come out of my comfort zone in terms of preferred music videos as I wanted to challenge myself in the research as well as research a broad range of artists and their different styles of alternative rock.

Oasis were an English rock band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Oasis are a very successful rock band, with a total of eight UK number-one singles and eight UK number-one albums and won fifteen NME awards, nine Q awards, four MTV Europe Music Awards and six Brit awards, including one in 2007 for Outstanding Contribution to Music and one for the best Album of the Last 30 Years as voted by BBC radio 2 listeners. By 2009, the band had sold an estimated 70 million records across the world.

I chose The importance of being Idle, written and sung by lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It was the second single released from the album in the UK, on the 22nd of August 2005, where it debuted at number one. IT was also the first time that Oasis earned two successive number ones in the same calendar year. The importance of being idle was the band's last UK #1 hit prior to their 2009 breakup.

 

 

Oasis - The Importance Of Being Idle lyrics

I sold my soul for the second time
Cos the man, he don't pay me
I begged my landlord for some more time
He said "Son, the bills waiting"

My best friend called me the other night
He said "Man, are you crazy?"
My girlfriend told me to get a life
She said "boy, you lazy"

But I don't mind
As long as there's a bed beneath the stars that shine
I'll be fine
If you give me a minute
A mans got a limit
I cant get a life if your hearts' not in it

I don't mind
As long as there's a bed beneath the stars that shine
I'll be fine
If you give me a minute
A mans got a limit
I cant get a life if my hearts' not in it

I lost my faith in the summertime
Cos it don't stop raining
The sky all day's as black as night
But I'm not complaining

I begged my doctor for one more line
He said "Son, words fail me"
It ain't no place to be killing time
But I guess I'm just lazy

I don't mind
As long as there's a bed beneath the stars that shine
I'll be fine
If you give me a minute
A mans got a limit
I cant get a life if my hearts' not in it

Research: Blink 182 - Up All Night

Media studies A2 project -
                                 
                                           - Research into 'alternative rock' music videos -

The first alternative rock music video that I analysed was a blink 182 song called up all night. I chose this song because it is one that I like and I was also familiar with the music video before hand, I felt like choosing songs that I already knew would make this task easier for me and I would be able to complete it to a higher standard.

Blink-182 are a very successful American punk-rock band and are the winners of dozens of music entertainment awards including a blockbuster entertainment award, 3 Kerang awards, 2 MTV Europe music awards, 4 MTV video music awards, 10 San Diego music awards, 4 teen choice awards and a Nickelodeon Kid's choice award.

 

The music video that I chose to analyse by Blink-182 is a song called 'up all night' which was released on the 14th of July 2011, this song was the lead single from the group's sixth studio album called Neighbourhoods. This song was their first since the reformation of 2009.

 

Blink 182 - up all night lyrics

 

[Verse 1:]Everyone wants to call it, all around our life with a better name.
Everyone falls and spins and it's up again with a friend who does the same.
Everyone lies and cheats their wants and needs and still believes their heart.
And everyone gets the chills, the kind that kills, when the pain begins to start.

[Chorus:]
Did I get this straight?
Do you want me here
As I struggle through each and every year.
And all these demons, they keep me up all night.
They keep me up all night [x2]

[Verse 2:]
Everyone's cross to bears the crown they wear on endless holiday.
Everyone raises kids in a world that changes life to a bitter game.
Everyone works and fights, stays up all night to celebrate the day.
And everyone lives to tell the tale of how we die alone some day.

[Chorus:]
Did I get this straight?
Do you want me here
As I struggle through each and every year.
And all these demons, they keep me up all night.
They keep me up all night [x3]
They keep me up all...