Presentation about choosing the track list for my album for my A2 Media Coursework.

1. Ideas for track list that will appear on my album.

2. In all of the songs on these
albums, there are a lot of them
which focus around love and
this seems to be a pattern
within the industry – these have
been circled in black. I have
decided to only look at female
artists because this is the sex
that my artist is. I think that this
is a very stereotypical finding
due to people seeing women as
the more caring and loving sex. I
think that the song ‘FU’ on the
album Bangerz has been used to
demonstrate Miley Cyrus’
change in image and ideology
from Hannah Montana to being
herself; detaching herself from
Disney. Katy Perry has used a
lot of songs on her album to
illustrate her fun nature and to
excite her fans because they are
quite young – these are circled
in blue. Rihanna is well-known
in the music industry for her
sexual pop songs, one of which
the video for was taken down
by YouTube for being
excessively raunchy. She also
released a song entitled ‘Cheers
(Drink to That)’ in which she
sings “don’t let the bastards get
you down” which portrays how
she is quite a confident artist
who isn’t afraid of speaking her
mind in a taboo manner. I have
circled these in red, and think
that these songs aren’t
something that would be
included in my track list because
I aren’t showing my artist in this
way.

3. These are the songs off the albums ‘Bangerz’, ‘Prism’ and
‘Loud’ that I really like and think would be suitable for
the artist that I am creating. They are all really simple
and have a serene quality aspect about them and think
they would go well with ‘White Teeth Teens’ which will
be the main song because this seems really calm; similar
to these song titles.
Song names I think would work on my album

4. As these are two artists that I know of and that are in the
same genre as the artist I am creating but don’t listen to
them, I had to use Google to search for the albums that
they have released so that I could find out the track lists
of the albums. I selected the most recent albums out of
the albums that came up after I searched because this
meant that I had the most up-to-date styles and their
ideologies may have changed since their penultimate
album, so it made sense to select the most recent ones.

5. Similarly to the songs that were
on the albums that I looked at
earlier, these all have songs on
them which relate to love in one
way or another – I have circled
these in black again to illustrate
how many there are of them. I
have also circled the song titles
which have connotations of
negativity and sadness, as this
seems to be something that
happens a lot in these indie
artist’s albums. There is almost
the same amount of each type
of song in these albums, which
is something I am going to do
when I create my back cover
and put on the tracklist as this is
conventional. I think that
because both Lorde and Lana
Del Rey have used a lot of songs
on their albums, it would be
quite difficult to create a back
cover that would look good and
still include this amount of
songs. This is why I am going to
use around 9/10 songs like
Lykke Li has done as I think this
will fill the back cover but not
make it look chaotic and messy.

6. Song names I think would work on my album
Off these albums, there are a lot more
songs that I think would work for my artist
than the pop albums that I looked at. I think
this is because the artists that these songs
are from are of the indie genre or sub-
genre, so relate to the artist that I am
creating a lot more. I really like these song
titles and think they would fit well alongside
the main song for my album which is called
‘White Teeth Teens’. They are quite deep in
how they are phrased and also represent
isolation and seclusion, which will fit in well
with the overall them of the album.

7. Chosen titles of songs
Through looking at different albums, I have decided that I will have 10 songs that will appear on the
album. This is because I feel that this amount will fit really well onto the back cover and won’t look
really messy and unorganised; creating a professional finish. The songs that I have chosen to use
are:
White Teeth Teens
Ghost
Awakening
Alone With My Thoughts
Learning To Love
Paranormal
Lungs
Disappear
Disposition
Catastrophe
I have chosen these particular songs because I believe that they all fit in really well with each other
and work on a whole. I have taken inspiration from the albums I have looked at when creating some
of the song names as I didn’t want to copy directly from them; for example I used ‘Paranormal’
instead of ‘Spiritual’ and ‘Lungs’ instead of ‘Ribs’. I haven’t put them in any particular order because
I think that this will illustrate the artist’s disorientation in the first song on the album and the video
that goes with it. Most of the songs I have chosen are only one word as I think this will make the
songs more memorable and therefore may correlate to the consumer purchasing more products
from the artist as they will remember her.