1. Listening Log
Date: 15th March 2010
Name of music: Mad Word
Band/artist/composer: Gary Jules
Reflection: What do you like about this music? Why?
I like the slowness, and calmness of this song. It makes me relax, as if this song
was a lullaby.
What is the mood, does it change?
The mood is a slow, calming and relaxing tune and it remains the same
throughout the whole song.
Comment on the musical elements (pitch, timbre, dynamics, tempo, rhythm,
texture, structure):
Pitch: The singer has a pretty low voice.
Timbre: The timbre of the piano mixes well with the singer’s voice.
Dynamics: The song is soft.
Tempo: The song is slow, and is slow for the whole song.
Rhythm : The song has a clear rhythm.
Texture: The song has a thin texture.

2. Structure: The song starts out with a depressed sounding person singing
“All around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces”
As if he has seen everything world has to offer him and that everything he sees
now seems worn out.
After that, there is a few more lines, that also reference his sadness of what
the world to him has become.
The chorus is
“And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad,
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had,
I find it hard to tell you,
I find it hard to take,
When people run in circles,
It’s a very very,
Mad world,
Mad world”
This chorus says that the singer has dreams of him dying, and that those are
the best dreams he have. He also references that the people of this world are
doing the same thing over and over again (“When people run in circles”).