Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Media h/w- Styles of Music


Media- Styles of Music

 

Pastiche and Homage- Song: Eminem without me

This song has tributes to many celebrities and artists such as: Moby, Elvis, Batman and Robin Michael Jackson. As well as this Dr Dre is shown in the music video.

During the video we are shown Eminem and Dr Dre as Batman and Robin who are sent to ‘save the world’.  The opening lines “Two trailer park girls go round the outside” is taken from a square dance song called “Buffalo Gals”. His references to other celebrities and artist are him mostly criticizing them for criticizing him, we firstly see this when Eminem says “Nobody listens to techno” in which he is referring to the artist Moby. Furthermore he also mocks former vice-president Dick Cheney’s wife and she is mentioned in the lyrics because she said that his music is “ Despicable, horrible, dreadful, shameful and awful” and Eminem found the remarks offensive.   Eminem also compares himself to Elvis in the song, noting that they both excelled in music styles dominated by black musicians, he points out that many people who criticized him were fans of Elvis. Eminem also samples Michael Jackson’s song:’ Billie Jean’ and Obie Trice’s song ‘Rap name’. Lastly his mother is also included in the song when he says “I just settled all my lawsuits; f*ck you Debbie” Debbie. His mum, sued Eminem for 10 Million dollars for some of the lyrics in another one of Eminem’s song called ‘My Name Is.

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Eminem - Without Me                                                                                                    

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Parody- Song: Why you always lying video

The song ‘why you always lying’ from Nicholas Fraser is a parody to the original song: next - too close, although he does change the words to the original, he does use the same instrumental and the lyrics also follow the same structure.  The first outlet of this parody was a vine showing the most popular line of the song “Why you always lying” and the shortened clip was spread around the whole of social media like: Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Instagram and more. The full video of the parody is broadcasted on YouTube and it quickly gained popularity and has over five million views and with even people copying the parody in different languages, whilst the original has over nineteen million views.

 



 

Animation- Song: Styles P, What’s the problem

This song doesn’t have an official video online, but the first video available takes use of the game Grand Theft Auto 4’s animation and has just over four thousand views , the video in itself doesn’t relate to the song besides the fact that it is only played on one of the games radio-stations, so in a way it is kind of a synergy as the video can promote the game and the fact that the song is in the game means that it will gain more recognition as huge amount of people will be able to listen to the song.


Synergy- Song: Eminem Survival ft. Liz Rodrigues.

This song from Eminem is a synergy as it was released on the 8th October to promote the game ‘Call of Duty Ghosts’. The music video shows mostly Eminem with the promotion of the game in the background to show the trailer using a projector, some of the shots show dogs and soldiers in their commanding uniform. Furthermore in the actually game there is a map that helps to promote Eminem as the outlet of the song is in a café, constantly playing his song throughout the whole period that you play on that specific map. With the collaboration of the game and the song it has reached over 102.6 Million Views.


Illustrative- Song: Kendrick Lamar, Swimming Pools
This song by Kendrick Lamar is based about being pressured into drinking and/or reasons why people have drinking habits, it’s made to convince people, especially teenagers to stop drinking, the video almost follow’s the lyrics as there are bottles of alcohol show in many scenes and the video gives situations of drinking problems and when you’re pressured into it.

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