Research
Task 4: Selecting my chosen track
Why I have chosen this song:
I believe it to have narrative based lyrics that concern the idea of having people whom you are close to in your life but being unable to spend much time with them and wishing to be able to spend more time with them.
This is shown in lyrics such as 'set my sights just to get struck which could suggest the idea of seeing a future with someone close to you and then it not playing out as you had hoped it would have.
I believe that I will be able to produce a music video for this song which shares a similar yet perhaps different narrative to what the band intended, showing how there can be different interpretations to the song.
Current band
Lyrics
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She's the one she's the only one
She's got ripped back light
Gonna make me come
I say, when I smile I'm a really smile
I got dreams so wide like a country mile
I said now, I'll take it
It's better for you
Somehow we'll make it
'Cause that's what we do
Pick a star in the open sky
I see you see me
And that is why I
Hop along to the cowboy beat
When I feel your fire
Jump up to meet
I said now, I'll take it
It's better for you
Somehow we'll make it
'Cause that's what we do
Something out there
Where love is your only friend and
We are the ones
That will make you feel better and
Someone to spare
When love is the only end and
We are the ones
That will make you feel better
Oh yeah
In a world that has run amok
I've got to set my sights
Just to get struck
I walk away from the rank and file
With a punched out mouth
And a pack of style
I say, she's the one she's the only one
Make me search myself
Until I'm done, and
Tell me now in a telegram
Do the sea of stars
Make a diagram, and
Something out there
Where love is your only friend and
We are the ones
That will make you feel better and
Someone to spare
When love is the only end and
We are the ones
That will make you feel better
Oh yeah, hey
Oh yeah
So alive I arrive on dust
You can search my mind
For the red on rust, I said
Take me there and she really cares
Lights up for me gonna hear my prayers
I said
Now, I'll take it
It's better for you
Somehow we'll make it
'Cause that's what we do
Something out there
Where love is your only friend and
We are the ones
That will make you feel better and
Someone to spare
When love is the only end and
We are the ones
That will make you feel better
We are the ones
That will make you feel better
We are the ones
That will make you feel better
We are the ones
That will make you feel better
We are the ones
That will make you feel better
The band who created the song are the 'Red hot chili peppers'.
They are an American rock band of 4 consisting of a singer/songwriter, bassist, guitarist and drummer.
My chosen track is part of the bands' 9th studio album which originally released on May 9th 2006.
The above music video, 'Black summer' is one of the bands most recent music videos.
I like this video as it is more modern and as such has repeated use of green screens to put the band members over different locations. I like this because it is different to the road trippin' music video which doesn't use green screens and instead has the band mates actually in the different locations such as surfing and sitting around a campfire.
The video on the left, 'Californication' is the music video for the debut song of the bands' 7th studio album of the same name released in 1999.
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I like this music video because it takes a very unique style, being modeled off of a video game in which you can choose to play as one of the band members and run around as them in a video game version of the real world.