Choosing a Music Track

When trying to choose our song, we created a mind map of all the possible song choices we might use for our music video.

We chose songs that fit the concept idea that we wanted go work with. Our concept is based on the idea of a time loop, being stuck in a period of time; however the protagonist will wake in various locations wearing different outfits as they repeat the same sequence of actions.

After reviewing all of them, we realised that these four would be the best choices for us:

• Lorde - The Love Club
• Best Coast - Boyfriend
• The Internet - Dontcha
• Marina and The Diamonds - Are You Satisfied?

We first decided to get rid of Boyfriend by Best Coast and Are You Satisfied by Marina and the Diamonds, as we thought Boyfriend would be too stereotypical of a song to use and Are You Satisfied was too upbeat for the concept idea we want to do.

This limited the possible song choices to The Love Club by Lorde and Dontcha by The Internet. Both of which are good songs and would work well with the concept idea that we had; however after listening to both the songs both Milly and I preferred the way Dontcha sounded so we chose this one.

The Internet have a similar sound to one that we wanted to go with and show in our music video.

EDIT 

We decided to use Under Control by The Internet, as we felt that the song complimented the concept idea better and we enjoyed the overall sound/feeling of the song.

This song is a lot slower than Dontcha, but we feel we can create a better music video with good cinematography.

Under Control works better with the idea for our music video as it juxtaposes the time loop concept. The song is about trying to stay under control, whereas the music video will show that no matter how hard you try, some things in life are uncontrollable.

We also found that Dontcha as a song is a tad repetitive and could alienate our target audience.