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Song title: "Pointless"Genre: RapExplanation: This songs talks about murder. It explores all the ways that murder can happen and how it can happen to anyone. It also talks about how people can be wrongfully accused of this crime and sometimes spend their entire life in jail. It will have some true-life accounts of people who were affected by the crime. It will have accounts from sides, someone whose family member was killed and someone whose family member did the killing.
Song title: "Right or Wrong?"Genre: R&BExplanation: This song is about abortion. It will talk about whether people believe that abortion is wrong or right. Along with whether they think it’s right or wrong, they will also tell the world if they believe that it should be a crime. There will be both points of view on the song. People will explain in which ways they think an abortion may be acceptable and in which ways they think it’s completely wrong.
Song title: "War"Genre: RapExplanation: This song is going to be talking about the war in Iraq and how many unnecessary soldiers are being deployed. It will talk about the war from what made the war start in the first place with the bombing of the twin towers. There will be people’s stories in the background music. They will talk about how much their lives are affected by the war. I will take stories from soldiers and families of soldiers who have relatives either deployed or that died from the war.
Song title: "Stupid"Genre: RockExplanation: This song explores the danger of drinking and the consequences that it can have on someone’s life. It will not only explore drinking by people that are of the age of drinking but also underage drinking. It will talk about how stupid and dangerous it is for people to drive after they have had something to drink, no matter how much it may have been. There will parts of the song that talk about someone’s life that has been affected by a drunk driver.
Song title: "It Hasn’t Disappeared"Genre: PopExplanation: This is a song about racism. It will talk about how many people think that racism has disappeared but in reality it hasn’t. There are so many new stories about people who have experienced racism. These experiences may not be all out in the public but are evident in the world.
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Song title: “Stupid”
Drinking is a fine thing to do when you do it responsibly
It turns bad when you decide to binge drink
It turns worse when you decide to get in the car
What makes you think that you can drive, when you can barely walk?
Making the decision to drive is the worse thing you can do
When you decide to drive you run the risk of taking someone’s life or your own
-The video will have many different elements. There will be scenes of people drinking to the point where they can’t walk but decide to get into the car. It will then show an accident that the drunk person caused. After that it will show a hospital scene where an innocent person is dead because of a drunk driver. The final part will show the drunk driver in court where they are receiving some type of punishment and then being hauled off to jail.
Step 3:
Title of CD: “Life is not a game”
Step 4:
The middle of the CD cover will be a picture of me, since I’m the artist. Around my picture will be an element pertaining to each song title. For song number 1 there will be a picture of my friend who was shot and lost his life. For song number 2 there will be a picture of a girl who was raped and now is pregnant. For song number 3 there will be a picture of my cousin who has been deployed three separate times to Iraq. For song number 4 there will be a picture of my cousin who lost her life to a drunk driver at the age of eight. For song number 5 there will be a picture of two people of different races holding hands to show unity among races. The title of the CD will go across the top above my picture in red letters because red is a bold color.
