Song Choices

23rd June:
Today I've been thinking about what kind of songs that I'd like to use. I haven't yet decided what type of video I would like to use but I think that if I keep my songs varied slightly then I have a flexible selection to choose from.
Originally I thought of using a song that has powerful singers, so that a performance element can be used in the video. Songs such as Anastacia - One Day In Your Life crossed my mind; this way I could put a narrative strand along side it following the story that the lyrics give me.
Then I thought "What if I decide that I don't want to do a narrative based video? What song would I use then?" and so I thought that maybe I should go with a song that has a beat behind it but progresses throughout the song - one that stayed in my mind was Clean Bandit - Dust Clears. This song is easy to sing along to, has a distinguishable beat and even has a melody that flows and can have dance choreography easily attatched to it.
I then thought about how I had only really thought about relatively up beat songs - what if I wanted to do a slower video? I thought about how Lana Del Rey video's looked - like a polaroid picture, with not always brilliant camera quality; giving off a kind of vintage and old look to her videos. 'Summertime Sadness' for example has a host of different shots that I would be able to replicate bearing in mind I have no budget for my music video.
Eventually I came down to these three songs, and another. Disclosure released a song on their album 'Settle' which really stuck with me when I heard it on Radio 1 this morning - it's called 'Confess To Me' and features a female singer called Jessie Ware. This song has a beat that I really like and can see many different ways in which I can interpret this music and create a video and PX for. The song has a beat that can be danced to and has quite abstract lyrics which I realised were missing from my other choices - what if I don't want my video to make sense, per se?
Links to all these songs are below:
Anastacia - One Day In Your Life                     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RIlAPC6U3w
Clean Bandit - Dust Clears                                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdfL2nY-Xs8
Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVjsGKrE6E8
Disclosure ft Jessie Ware - Confess to Me        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MfLZM7kvy0