week 3-Alex-Screw The World

week7 production lab- rearranged

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Prod Week14 space #1

Prod Week 14 space#2

Lyrics: Alex
singer: Raizel
drummer: Raizel
pianist: Ashley
recorded in a random "studio"
song title: Famous

intro:
you don’t know me
Just like everyone else
You slammed the doors at my face
You mocked me through the passing days

verse:
You think I wouldn’t care?
No, no no no
Why can’t you understand?
That I’m just like you
I have feelings too

stop playing pretend
Just Let me in
Don’t shut me out
Why can’t you see
that I’m unhappy 

chorus:
Your hurtful words don’t matter anymore
What were they for? 
I like to be on my own
But don’t leave me alone
You gotta learn to give
 when you still can
Cuz you never know 
when you’d fall
And everything goes wrong

bridge:
Oh, oh why
Why are you doing this to me?
You just wanna be famous
I’m good to die nameless
But remember what goes up
Comes down

verse2:
You think you know me
Did u ever expect
That i'd come first in the race
You gotta keep up with the pace;)

You think I wouldn’t care?
No, no no no
Why can’t you understand?
That I’m just like you
I have feelings too


stop playing pretend
Just Let me in
Don’t shut me out
Why can’t you see
that I’m unhappy 

chorus:
Your hurtful words don’t matter anymore
What were they for? 
I like to be on my own
But don’t leave me alone
You gotta learn to give
 when you still can
Cuz you never know 
when you’d fall
And everything goes wrong

outro:
Oh, oh why
Why are you doing this to me?
You just wanna be famous
I’m good to die nameless
But remember what goes up
Comes down

Prod ALEX Demo "5"

midi instruments 

goodbye

We're just looking for answers to the questions we don’t know
How far we’ve come 
how far could I go?
Fly away fly away

Another chance another goodbye
Another dream left here to die
The tears from your eyes 
Whispered inside
Goodbye goodbye
Goodbye goodbye

You’ve been looking for some feelings 
Ive been looking the other way
To stay or fly away 
To stay or fly away

Its hard to choose but she had wings
What else can she do
She didn’t mean to hurt you
Its hard to choose but she has wings 
What else can she do
She didn’t mean to hurt you

PROW SONG WK7

summary:

the lyrics of this song just came to me when I was trying to fall asleep at 3 am and I just record down what I had and worked on it but I couldn't sing it properly so I asked my friends from other schools to help(is this allowed?) but they were 100% willing to help. I was on the verge of giving up before they encouraged me to finish this. this song is a light and easy listening song about a person knowing the mistakes he made and want to apologise to this other person that was really angry and tries to leave. the lyric is about me and my Best Friend for 5 years but I kept a secret from her which she found out and wanted to leave. this song is a rather sad song but I didn't make it so tense and dull is because I feel that no matter what happened, if you ask for forgiveness properly and honestly, things will be better so just look at the bright side.

Differentiation factors: 
I made a friendship song sound like a love song? our friendship came about in a weird way thats why... but I think this song sounds pretty much as cliche as other songs. I just feel like if you listen carefully you can feel the regret and guilt of the person. 

delivery strategies: 
I made it sound more light and bright rather than dull and tense. I wanted to give a feeling that "hey you've screwed up but things are ok now so just be thankful and dont screw up again". the lyrics works well as a love song too so maybe some people will relate more to that.

instrument: acoustic guitar 
guitarist : a friend from EEE (Joreen)
vocalist : a friend from Design school(Wan)
lyrics : Alexya
arrangement : Alexya
recorded with Logic Pro at staircase


Am F C G.     G D/F# Em C

secret
Intro 
Ive been trying to tell you this 
Ive been playing around lately
no matter what I did
Dont you leave me 
so Baby stay, stay with me

Verse 1
Please dont go
Please dont go
It felt so right
Being in love with you (somehow)
Baby dont goooo 
You know I love you  
So Stay stay 
so stay, so stay 

Chorus C G Am F
I dont wanna tell you this
I can’t just hold on to the memories 
Im sorryyyyy
I know u can’t forgive me
You’ve got me begging and begging
For you to stay, stay
for you to stay, stayyyy

Verse 2
You know where I’ll be
You knew what to do
I was waiting for you
To say that you wont go
No no no no 
Baby I want you to stay X2

Chorus C G Am F
I dont wanna tell you this
I can’t just hold on to the memories 
Im sorryyyyy
I know u can’t forgive me
You’ve got me begging and begging
For you to stayyyyyyyy x2

Outro 
I cant let you go 
But you've left me alone
Screaming out loud but
You dont hear a sound 
All I want is for you to stay 
Stay stay stayyyy
for you to stay
stay no no 
for you to stay

Prow Week 13_Stay

summary:  red orange and in-between actually meant like a feeling. imagine you're in love(red) cuz most of the time love is represented in red color, and you're feeling angry (orange) at the same time too. orange represents anger as in flames. so the song is about being angry but can't help it that kind of feeling of not knowing what to do. in this song me and my friends managed to do it together, I came up with the lyrics and asked them to help me. I feel like to me, this song may sound bright and cheerful but if you really think about those things that happened in the lyrics, its quite sad actually. in this song I wanted to convey a message that the world will be a nicer place if guys us more brains to understand girls and girls be less of a drama queen. 

differentiation factors: I guess Ive never really heard of other songs with funny and sad lyrics. I feel like in this song, the main thing is the message through the lyrics. I didn't really focus on the melody. this song sounds like other pop songs but I bet a lot of girls can relate to it or even if they dont, when they listen to it they may laugh a little 

delivery strategies: is song is a cheerful and bright song talking about the mistakes some guy made and the girl felt betrayed and that he wasn't honest and trustworthy. its a bit contradicting but the point is to not cry and whine about it and just live with it. to give a feeling of " what the hell? this kind of mistakes are dumb but they are real." and " because of these stupid mistakes she's leaving him for a better man and a better life" so its supposed to sound happy:)

instruments: acoustic guitar
guitarist: Brina 
vocalists: Zen, Cristel
lyrics: Alexya, Brina 
arrangement: Alexya, Brina, Zen
recorded through iPhone

Red, Orange, and in-between 

Verse 1
Boy u think you’re smart 
But let me tell you what
You can’t even tell the difference between 
Red and green

You ask me what you wanna eat
I said maybe Japanese?
But you brought me to a MAC drive in  

Chorus 1
I’m feeling red orange and in between 
I bet you don’t know what I mean
That’s the feeling I get when you say you love me
But I’m hoping you’re the one for me

I’m feeling red orange and I’m between
Now I know you don’t know what I mean
It’s the feeling I get when you say you want me
You’re being really off lately

Verse 2
You came by yesterday 
And yelled happy birthday 
But it’s like a month away

And on Christmas Eve 
I asked you what you got for me?
You said you didn’t think that was a need

Chorus 2
I’m feeling red orange and in between 
I don’t even know what I mean 
It’s like the feeling I get 
when you say u need me
But you’re unfaithful baby

I’m feeling red orange and in between
I guess I’m learning what it means
It’s the feeling I get when you say you need me
But I’m just another fish in the sea


Chorus 3 (outro):
red orange and in between
I guess I finally learnt what it means
You played your games and left me be
I should’ve just opened up my eyes and see

PROW SONG WEEK 16

Summary: this song is written late at night where I was thinking about my life and I feel that I should write a song about my life. It’s basically talking about how things were so great when we were young, no worries, no complications and of course, everything seemed much simpler back then. However everything changed when I stared to think deeper into situations, conversations and things around me. It all started one day, when I saw a bird die in front of my eyes... and I just stood there and cried. After that I realised many things that were so overlooked back then became some of my insecurities. So in this song I wrote about how we oversee the importance of words and how we misused and yet overused it. In many times, people leave without saying goodbyes but also, many times people say things that they don’t know about. For example, nowadays “I love you” and “I hate you” are so overused that it made the meaning behind these phrases so insignificant. The concept of this song and how the lyrics came about is that my family once had a great plan of how our lives would be in the future and it was amazing but then my Father left and my Mother became very sick for 5 years and therefore I feel like “goodbye”s are underused and “I love you” is misused. Because before everything happened, I’ve never told my mom how much I love her. 

Differentiation factors: I wrote this song based on my family initially and I feel that there’s not many songs that’s about family and it’s not the cliche type of family song. In this song I made the surrounding (location) and environment very clear but I made the person I’m singing about very vague because for me, it’s about my family and it is also about those important friends I’ve had whom all went away without even saying goodbyes. But for others it may mean something else. Songs nowadays talks a lot about what he did what she did but it doesn’t make you picture the song like a movie in your head so I guess my song is a little bit different from the others as I focused more on the behaviours of the surroundings

Delivery strategies: This song is not a complain song or a breakup romance song. It’s just a reflection song about how we should have more meaningful conversations...(?) This song also had very vague audience but has very clear setting. It gives a very lonely feeling, I feel that this song, to different people, means different things and feelings because loneliness to different people, have different feelings. I used piano for this song instead of guitar because I feel like this song suits piano better as its supposed to sound more lonely and calm as compared to guitar(in this case). For the arrangement, I personally feel that it’s a bit messy and weird but I don’t know where and why so there’s no changes...

Instrument: piano
Recorded in my living room through iphone
Vocalist: Alexya
Lyrics: Alexya 
Arrangement: Alexya
Pianist: Alexya...

<words seem so small>

Verse 1
Em C G
Joking around making silly faces 
Em C G Bb 
It was all fun until that day 
Em C G
Under the surface 
How could we know
Em C G Bb 
That our plans would fall to pieces 

Verse 2
Em C
Walking down the road
G D
Wishing I had a place to go
Em C
Someone I could follow 
G D
Cause I’m here walking alone 

Pre chorus 
Em C
through the empty streets
G D
Grey clouds covered me
Em C
As I look upon the sky
G D
To the blurred clouds and the butterflies 
Em C
Raindrops fell into my eyes 
G D
And my tears had a place to hide 

Chorus
Em C
What are words for?
G D
When you left 
Em C
There’s no goodbye 
G D
Nothing at all(high)
Em C
You made words seem so small(high)
G D
You made words seem so small(high)
Em C
You made words seem so small
G D
You made words seem so small

Verse2 
Em C
Walking down the road
G D
Wishing I had a place to go
Em C
Someone I could follow 
G D
But I’m here walking alone

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