Music Video Analysis --> Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy

The Video:

- old woman walking a dog in a dark, industrial area

- her dog urinates on a abandoned tv on the ground

- the tv unexpectedly turns into life and kinda of un-leases an evil spirit, along with a gang of small children who go around a old building trashing it and scaring a man into his car

- a demand emerges from the tv and screams in the old women’s face and then gathers the children around him

- there is a random break of girls singing softly, holding hands and skipping

Info:

- the kids are wearing masks to look like Richard D. James

- the lyrics are VERY simple: I want your soul, I want to eat your soul, come to daddy

- the video was inspired by the time he was 14 and was chased by a 9 year old with a hammer

- director: Chris Cunningham ( British 1970 )

- song came out in 1997 - and is one of Aphex Twins best songs.

- genre of music: Hardcore Techno, Drill n Base, Electro-Industrial, IDM

-

Thoughts:

- even though the lyrics are not meaningful the sound of the music makes it meaningful

- the music video has parts that are similar to scary movies: The Shining ( when the little girls skip and sing softly kind of like a nursery rhyme ) and Nightmare on Elm Street ( when the tv turns on and comes alive )

- very repetitive

- very kaotic cuts, fast pase,

- Richard made a kind of bad song good with the amazing, and powerful video

- music is fast and changes often

- I find it terrifying and the song and video together is kind of chilling

- the music is very disturbing even with out the video

- music has swirling noise and kind of distorted screaming that is hard to understand but has boarding lyrics anyways

- complex images at the start hard to understand but keps you interested

- the part with the little girls singing softly and skipping is creepy and gives the whole music video a crazy vibe that fits

- for people who enjoy this kind of music and twisted videos its amazing

- I would never listen to this genre of music but it was interesting an well done



Introduction to ME

Hello! My name is Megan Elizabeth Kernighan Little, I am 17 years young and turning 18 on June 17th!

I enjoy being active, I have been doing competitive cheerleading. I currently attend GDCI and am in my last year,  this coming September I am attending Fanshawe Collage for Photography. I enjoy buying my products from stores like H&M, Forever 21, Pink, Aritzia, Guess, LuluLemon.

I am addicted to reblogging on Tumblr! I plan on being a all mac product person soon seeing how i am going into photography. I really like mac products do not have any of my own yet, next year i will need to use them for my program.

I love all my friends from school, we just came back from a trip to Dominican. There was 34 of us, and had a great week. I currently drive a blue Jetta Volkawagen 2002 used car. 

I love my puppy Clayton (my mom named him) Clayton is 9 months old and is half jackrussel half boarder terrier. He is full of energy and he loves the beach just like me! I worked at Benmiller Inn for 2 and a half years and am currently working at Crabby Joes in Goderich. 

I Listen to Skrillex, Down With Webster, LMFAO, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Mac Miller, Beyonce, and hundreds more. I enjoy a lot of types of music but not so much country. I really like to watch Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars, other than those two shows I don't watch tv very much. I              watch a lot of movies though. Some favourites are The Notebook, Up, Dirty Dancing, Blow. I don't read a lot but i like Nickolas Sparks, Meg Cabbot, and my favourite books are A Million Little Pieces, and Scare Tissue. 

I love spending time relaxing at the beach or my cottage. I am not fond of snow but I enjoy skiing. I am happiest in the summer seadooing, eatting good food and spending time with friends and family. 

Megans CommTech Song!

My Song gr. 11 Comm Tech!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luBJcrMZm98&context=C3e6e6bbADOEgsToPDskL-Q5Kdy7in5QXYvUbtzJh0

Assignment 1! Exploring an Artist

The asignment:

Black Music influences Pop Music in the rhythms - and we have a lot of new stuff breaking into the charts

Black Music is now dominant and when you’re looking at it, you’re focusing on that rhythm - the layers, the amount of percussion, etc.

We are going to form a group (can be small), to explore a particular artist from pre-1980.

You choose any band or performer or singer and prepare a little something on that performer. Kind of like what I just did with rhythm and black music with Elvis

Looking for:

History
Bio info
Sound, style, attitude, etc
What’s in the music
Why popular?
Samples to show/listen to
Who came after?
Who was influenced by?
Show videos, audio, pics
Do some comparisons - other performers who are/were similar

Bob Dylan - Beatles - Led Zepplin - Kiss - David Bowie - Alice Cooper - Rolling Stones - The Who - The Eagles - The Band - Conway Twitty - Porter Wagoner/Dolly Parton - Pink Floyd - Jimi Hendrix - Yes - Emerson Lake Palmer - Genesis - Rush - ELO - Miles Davis - Thelonious Monk - Charlie Parker -

Create a section on your blog
Presentation with videos and stuff
Do a presentation
Show why this performer should still be listened to OR why they shouldn’t

My girls and I in Dominican this past week now back to school!!!!!!!

BTW This blog is now going to be used for comm tech!