I can't really say that I like a particular genre of music to listen to. I basically just listened and watch tracks that catch my attention and interest. I think that I'm mostly attracted to tracks that I could somehow relate to. I also like songs that in one way or another show sides of me or how I feel.
As of now I think one of the artists that I'm really into is Avril Lavigne. She started out as a typical artist from Canada but she slowly developed to a well-known performer, idolized by many all over the world. Her fans are attracted to her because of her funky music and the messages presented in her songs, which I think most people(teens) can relate to.
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When You're Gone
I really like the concept chosen for this video. Though it is a seemingly sad song it showed compassion about the people we cherish in life. The first time I heard the song, I didn't really liked it too much but my reaction towards it changed as I saw its music video for the first time. It showed three very different settings, but it revolved around the same concept of caring and remembering the people that we love. The three settings are as follows: a wife(pregnant) forced to be parted from her husband who is about to go to war, young lovers who are separated because of the girl's parents, and an old man reminiscing times he had spent with his wife. Watching the video may give you a warm feeling or at least a feeling that is good and likable.
Rating: 8.5/10
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Nobody's Home
I think that this song along with its video send out a strong message. This song is about a person who feels homeless and lost in this world of ours. She tries to approach people that she sees yet she doesn't feel the compassion and the emotions that she needed like that of being valued or important to others, and that of being accepted by the people around her.
In this video, Avril portrayed a homeless person wandering around the streets of the busy city struggling to survive. She goes to different places searching for a place to call 'home'. She did and felt things that people out on the streets normally do feel like sleeping on the streets, using public toilets as a place to clean themselves, and buying food from convenient stores with the amount of money that they have.
Another thing that I like about this video is that there are parts where the artist is shown wearing clothes from the past as well as a setting which matched it. It gave off a classy and melancholy feel to the video and added to its overall atmosphere.
Rating: 9.5/10
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I'm With You
The video's setting is at a party where teens mingle with one another. Despite this, the singer acts out as simply being apart of the huge crowd not making herself known of or heard. This sends out the message that she is searching for someone who would understand her and accept her for who she is. As the video progresses, she bumps into people who treat her wrong, pushing her around and fighting her, which shows how she feels people treat her.
Rating:8/10
My ratings depend on the way I liked the videos and on the message and feeling that I get from the song itself. I chose the second video as the highest because I think that it showed a deeper concept than the other two. I rated the first one that way because I could somehow related to the main message of the song and its video plus I like the flow of the video itself. Lastly, I rated the third that way because I think that it showed less effort in developing a concept design of the video compared to the first two(considerable since it was one of her earlier works).
Labels: comparative analysis, englone, music videos
Voices echoes in my presence...from morning til late afternoon. I await quietly throughout the day all by myself , staring at the beings who pass before me never to say a word back to them. I see and play witness to many conversations and acts by you people of different origins and characteristics. You fill me up inside with the warmth emitting from your bodies pressing against my hard and cold, almost icy interior. My moves are limited that's for sure. Opening and closing like a person's eyes blinking with every second that passes him or her by. Going up and down like a person's chest while inhaling and exhaling the gift of God's creations. 
