Creative Ideas

In our previous lesson we have to get in a group to work for our official music video, and each person selected different soundtrack that we could use for our music video and in the end we made an agreements to do "Dead to Me" by Melanie Martinez. 

Lyrics:

My condolences
I'll shed a tear with your family
I'll open a bottle up, pour a little bit out in your memory
I'll be at the wake dressed in all black
I'll call out your name, but you won't call back
I'll hand a flower to your mother when I say goodbye
Cause baby you're dead to me
I need to kill you
That's the only way to get you out of my head
Oh I need to kill you
To silence all the sweet little things you said
I really want to kill you
Wipe you off the face of my earth
And bury your bracelet
Bury your bracelet
Six feet under the dirt

Rainy days and black umbrellas
Who's gonna save you now
can you cheat from underground 

My condolences 
I'll shed a tear with your family
I'll open a bottle up, pour a little bit out in your memory
I'll be at the wake dressed in all black
I'll call out your name but you won't call back
I'll hand a flower to your mother when I say goodbye
Cause baby you're dead to me
I'll mourn you when you go
Baby you're dead to me
I'll mourn you when you go

I need to say sorry
That's the only thing you say when you lose someone
I used to say I'm sorry
For all of the stupid shit you've done
So now I'm really sorry, sorry for being the apologetic one
But if I told you again, if I told you again
You would think I was crazy

My condolences 
I'll shed a tear with your family
I'll open a bottle up, pour a little bit out in your memory
I'll be at the wake dressed in all black
I'll call out your name but you won't call back
I'll hand a flower to your mother when I say goodbye
Cause baby you're dead to me
I'll mourn you when you go
Baby you're dead to me
I'll mourn you when you go
Cause baby you're dead to me

During the lesson we discussed some ideas we could use by analysing the lyrics, and the lyrics give off a dark and gloomy moods especially the line "Cause baby you're dead to me. I need to kill you... Oh I need to kill you". The theme of the lyrics could be about death, danger and anger as the lyrics suggest how she wants to take revenge and she’s emphasising that in order to forget everything that she and the ex-lover shared, she needs to “kill” the ex-lover. We also discussed on how we can use psychological problem such as dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder) which can links with the line “So now I'm really sorry, sorry for being the apologetic one” by showing her sarcastic side due to her multiple personality disorder and how she feels truly sorry towards her, however her alternative ego is tired of being the ‘apologetic one’. We also thinking of using conceptual art in our music video especially dark art through imagery and props.