Secret Sin Lyrics

Verse 1

Let’s not make an announcement
Can we make this thing brief?
Let’s take things just a step at a time
and see where it might lead
I’ll run and close all the curtains
Ensure no light’s let in
Hide away from the spies of the day
And live our secret sin

(Instrumental)

Verse 2

I’ll stop the clocks from ticking
Freeze the earth in its’ place
Chase away the night from the day
So I can longer see your face
We’ll watch each others every move
Bathe in every breathe
I’ll fall asleep to the sound of your voice
In love we will remain

(Instrumental)

Chorus

I’ll fight your corner when you’ve been beaten
Take all the weight when life gets to heavy
Do whatever it takes just to make you smile
I won’t let life defeat you
And sometimes the road is rough
Just remember one thing on those cloudy nights
You will always have my love

(Instrumental)

Verse 3

Love has refracted a tear in my eye
and now the world around me is gold
Thoughts of you have taken over my mind
I think of how we could grow old
we’d live off our laughter and smiles
Build a life within a wall of happiness
and never once see a cloud

(Instrumental Solo)

Chorus x2

Artists Permission

In order to be able to use our chosen song, we first needed to gain permission from Modestep themselves as the track was copyrighted. As previously mentioned I have two members of the band on Facebook, I approached Matt the bands drummer and explained to him the situation and what we wanted to do with the track. He came back to me within 24 hours which was extremely pleasing, he explained that as long as we state that the song belongs to Modestep and that we're not re-releaing the track under the sale of any other names then we have permission.  

However It was slightly disheartening but also understandable that the band would not be able to perform for us.

Nevertheless, by contacting the band on Facebook we were able to obtain the relevant permission needed. This proved to be an extremely useful means of communication.

Ideal Audience Member

Name: George

Age: 22

Interests: Rock/Indie music and playing the drums

Location: London

Education: Westminster University taking a degree in Music

Outside of school: Partying, is the drummer of his own band

Other: Uses internet to download music, socializing on networking sites such as Facebook and doesn't watch much TV.

Lifestyle:

George gets up at 7.00 am at his campus in London and starts to get ready for his day at Westminster university. Between his free periods, break and lunch he checks up on the latest updates on new albums/songs  relating around various genres he enjoys and then dowmloads or purchases them via the internet either through ITunes, Spotify etc.  When the day is over he meets up with his band members and enjoys practicing for small gigs that come along from time to time while having laughs with others and discuss their favorite bands, songs etc and the latest related music news feed. He also enjoys socializing on Facebook with old friends outside of university and likes to know how they are and doing etc when he gets some spare time to himself. Around dinner time he then meets up with his fellow piers at a local bar to get a bite to eat and partying.

Demographics of Comparable Artists

Red Hot Chili Peppers-

Nirvana-

Nickleback-

Characteristics of Rock

Some characteristics of Rock music are :

- Strong rhythm

- Singable melodies

- Simple accompaniment

- Guitar riffs/ostinatos

-Guitar/Drum Solos

Basic Instruments are :

- 3 guitars

- lead, rhythm and bass
- Vocals - Keyboard
- Drum kit

Target Audience Plan

As we have to make a digipack and a music video for our artist, it is key for us to know our target audience. Therefore we need to plan how we will research our audience:

I plan to look at YouTube's comments and statistics for our song and include the information gained in our project. I beleive it is a good site for information as people can comment and give feedback etc so we can make improvements to our product.

Survey Monkey allows you to create an online questionnaire which can then used on other social media platforms. We will use this to create a survey asking various questions such as "Which of this social networking sites do you reguarly use?". This will give us the feedback we need in order to find out who our target audience is.

Twitter is another good site for researching into our target audience as we can create pages or send direct or public messages. This allows us to get a variety of opinions into what our target audience for our genre is.

Rock History and Trends

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as rock and roll in 1950s America and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical sources. Musically, rock has centered around the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature utilizing a verse-chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse and common musical characteristics are difficult to define. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. The dominance of rock by white, male musicians has been seen as one of the key factors shaping the themes explored in rock music. Also rock is well known for live performances as the intruments invloved create an electric atmosphere. The hand gesture below is a very common rock gesture, everybody is pretty much familiar with the infamous “devils horns” hand signal as it is very popular amongst heavy metal fans.