Lyrics Analysation

1.When I was just a baby my mama told me. Son,

Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns.

But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die

When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry..

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues

So this song was my initial reaction to the brief, I just thought it had really possibility to be super dark and therefore emotive and powerful. I realised if I was to do this though the performance I would give to it would be full of energy and show off my best animation talents so I've decided to leave it at this stage.

2.Money is the key to end all your woes

Your ups, your downs, your highs and your lows 

Won't you tell me the last time that love bought you clothes? 

It's like that, and that's the way it is 

Bills rise higher every day 

We receive much lower pay 

I'd rather stay young, go out and play 

It's like that, and that's the way it is 

Huh! 

Wars going on across the sea 

Street soldiers killing the elderly 

Whatever happened to unity? 

It's like that, and that's the way it is 

RUN DMC - It's like that

These three verses are quite long so I think I would have to only have time to do two, I've timed myself saying them quite slowly and two verses are twenty seconds long. What I like most about this song is the beat and the rhythm of the words. The flow of it had such great pace I think this would make it easier to animate to because you could get movements bang on the beat. Also there's a lot of energy in this song and I think it's really powerful so there's chance to embrace a lot of action and show off my skills as an animator. What I appreciate most is how meaningful the lyrics are. To say this song is from the nineties these lyrics are still poignant today. I don't want to be seen to be doing airy fairy stuff and I think this has a force behind it.

3.We only humans girl we make mistakes

To make it up I do whatever it take

I love you like a fat kid love cake

50 Cent - 21 Questions

I really liked these song lyrics because of the visuals. I can just picture Fifty cent as a fat kid stuffing his face with cake. However I think because were working with Maya rather than photoshop I think it'd be really difficult to get these visuals into the short. Also it's all about animating and the performance rather than the visuals so I think this would be good if the emphasis was on something else.

4.I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen Every sensible child will know what this means
The poor and the needy
Are selfish and greedy on her terms
And if the day came when I felt a
Natural emotion
I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump
In the ocean
The Smith's - Nowhere Fast

So I was trying to find songs with more visuals to compromise the fact that I couldn't use fifty cent and I listened to the smiths because I know Morrisey can be quite depressingly metaphor and simile heavy. I really like the idea of animating someone mooning, because it's not really acceptable on live film but on an animation I think it'd just be funny. Although the lyrics are quite intense I reckon they could be twisted in a completely different way to how Morrisey sings them.

5.The shoes on my feet

I've bought it

The clothes I'm wearing

I've bought it

The rock I'm rockin'

'Cause I depend on me

If I wanted the watch you're wearin'

I'll buy it

The house I live in

I've bought it

The car I'm driving

I've bought it

I depend on me

Destiny’s child independent woman

I then decided I needed to find other such songs with possibility for props and I thought this would be perfect. There's so many possibilties for props. It's an empowering song with a good beat like Run DMC's. Admittedly it's not as serious but it's still pretty playful. I also remember the dance routine I made up to this when I was little.

6.A long time ago, we used to be friends

But I haven't thought of you lately at all

If ever again, a greeting I send to you,

Short and sweet to the soul is all I intend.

We used to be friends a long time ago.

We used to be friends a long time ago.

Dandy Warhol - We Used to be friends.

So this song is the theme tune to Veronica Mars. There has not been a better TV Show ever created. There probably has but it won't be as cheesey. I only put this in the long list because it's a song I know really well and sing along to it everytime I watch Veronica Mars (which is more often than you'd think). I don't really have any initial instinct of how I'd animate to it though and also I'd be so sad if I came to dislike the song. So I won't be shortlisting it but it is one that I considered for a while.

7.I left a good job in the city Working for the man every night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleeping
Worrying 'bout the way things might have been

Big wheel keep on turning
Proud Mary keep on burning
And we're rolling, rolling
Rolling on the river
Tina Turner - Proud Mary.

This is another song that I love to pieces and sing all the time and became a consideration because of how well I love it and love prancing around to it. But the more I've thought about the more I've struggled to think of props. I think I've got three solid ones that would be easier to shortlist already though. So I'll just keep this one for the hairbrush microphone in the mirror moments.

8.Because I'm happyClap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do
Pharrell Williams

This one is a last minute addition, so it came on at work whilst I was telling my colleague about this latest project and always makes everyone want to dance, well sway their shoulders and tap their feet. So when I got home I decided to look up the lyrics and I think it's just got so much energy there so much potential for actions. And you could imagine someone with a baton just dancing along, so I think I'd really like to shortlist this one and brainstorm some ideas for it.

SHORT LIST TO TAKE FURTHER
Independant Women - Destiny's Child
Explore props and camera angles for each line. Real potential to be punchy and powerful.

It's Like that and that's the way it is - RUN DMC
Explore props and actions to match the beat of the lyrics.

Happy - Pharrell Williams
Explore actions which will need testing in Maya think about more props for lyrics.

Nowhere Fast - The Smiths
Plan out initial idea for lyrics and come up with a couple more ideas for these lyrics.


Next Step:
So for this next step I'm going to work back on paper and I'm going to brainstorm some ideas for props and initial actions for specific lines. I'm going to try and exhaust my brain with them then I'll blog about them sleep on it and come up with a set of storyboards for each, hopefully inbetween these stages I can drop one of the songs, so there's only three to narrow down and discuss with Matt on Friday.