Visual lyrics

Post modernism and the music video

What is post modernism?

Post modernism is taking ideas from the past, twisting them and creating something new with it, it involves:

 

·         remodelling the past

·         transforming iconic images

·         satirising

·         intertextuality

·         adding to past tradition-innovative

·         mixing genres

·         plays with reality     

3 main stages

·         The experimental stage à this stage of genre attempts to establish trends

·       The cannon stage à this stage works with in those trends to fix them into our cultural understanding

·       The post-modern stage à this stage looks at those trends, laughs at them, pokes them with a big stick and adds something new

·         Thereby creating a new experimental stage

Three types in intertextuality

·         Homage à Imitation of the highest flattery

·         Pastiche à Using imagery of the text to make a comment about another

·         Parody à Taking the micky

Song Timings

Tonight I let you go- the colours

 

Timings

 

0:00-0:08 à music begins (with drums and guitars)

 

0:09-0:35 à first verse begins

 

0:36- 1:08 à chorus begins

 

1:09-1:36 à second verse begins

 

1:37-2:08 à chorus begins

 

2:09- 2:25 à drums and guitars

 

2:26-2:40 à heartbreak x8

 

2:41-3:08 à chorus

 

3:09-3:23 à song begins to finish with drums and guitars   

The Colours

Genre: Pop, Dance, Alternative
From: Reading, United Kingdom

 

Band Members

Tom Pickford - Vocals, Keys, Guitar

Tom Newman - Bass, Synthesizers, Backing Vocals
Tony Folland - Drums, Sequencing, Percussion

What the songs about

Tonight I Let You Go is a song about the trials of the heart in the formative years; the movement from one relationship to the other. But this isn’t a soppy love story; far from it. Planting a brave face on the inner discomfort exposed within the lyrics, this upbeat number puts a lighter spin on darker issues;

 

About the band

theCOLOURS do not take themselves too seriously. Their euphoric stage sound is best summed up in the wry words of chief songwriter and singer Tom Pickford, “I suppose we're a bit more tragic than the Hoosiers, but less Danish than Alphabeat”.