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flaming - lyrics

V1

I gotta get out of this town

had enough of this hate and fear

I wanna blossom come into my own

I don’t think I can handle another year

V2

Oh why you staring

it’s not like you can’t do what i do

Gotta feel it in your bones

Be electric be true i’m here for u

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Prechorus:

ohhhhhh yeah

i feel like i’m on cloud nine

gotta work it work it

then I serve it serve it

gotta slay it slay it

better set it on fire

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Chorus:

i’m flaming

I look and feel like kryptonite

everybody knows it’s good it’s right

don’t extinguish me don’t kill my vibe

if you gotta problem I don’t wanna hear it I’m flamin tonight

baby i’m flaming

it’s so amazing

baby i’m flaming

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V3

DJ turn it up now

I love this record and how it makes me feel

it’s like lightning in this club

when i get on this dance floor you know it’s real

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CHORUS (same as beginning but with added stanza)

there’s a fire in the way that i walk

I gotta be it gotta feel it talk the talk

If you can’t get w me it’s not ur fault

better think bout it can you handle me? tonight i’m flamin

baby i’m flamin

it’s so amazing

baby i’m flamin

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bridge

it’s a miracle that we even look this good

we’re true to ourselves our existence is love

we love one another and what we possess

we’re sickening honey lemme get this check

my squad is here yeah we keep it cute

if you can’t handle this then put it on mute

i used hate my identity inside

but now i understand the beauty in my life

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CHORUS

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broken fortune cookie - lyrics

V1

Hey where should i be going

I’m not really sure

but i know that everything will be okay

One day I will wake up

In a bedroom that I own

with the money that I have made

Chorus:

Maybe it’s a little stormy right now

right now don’t be afraid

it’s only temporary the sun’ll come out one day

i know that things could be better

but we’ll do with what we’ve made

life isn’t so easy so let’s live

Verse 2:

Today i went out to dinner

had a plate of pad thai

it came with a broken fortune cookie

and that’s okay it still had inside

one note saying this

“broke is only temporary

being poor is a state of mind”

Chorus:

And i thought life is rich with possibilities

tragedies so it seems

i’ve been blessed with so many things

but i still have room to dream

i’m only nineteen got a whole life ahead of me

so i’ll live and live purposefully happy and free

Outro:

ohhhh ohh ohhh ohh ohh ohhh oh

oohhhh ohhh ohhh ohh ohhh

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are you looking for a new car - lyrics

do you need a car?

come see us today! you’ll get the best deal

when you do it the clark way

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we SLASH our prices

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or trade in for a classic, fresh silverado for 219 a month

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with me - lyrics

verse 1:

it feels so quiet every weekend

spending my time here waiting for you

when you get here it feels like ecstasy

but i know that i’ll crash when ur w/me

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Prechorus:

Sitting in the dark I don’t wanna be alone

Your face drives      me craz y let’s take this slow

oohhh ohhh

i don’t want to u leave but i know u gotta be

gotta get on 95 into my fantasies

ohhh ohh

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Chorus:

maybe i’m just missing u

but i feel like i’m fallin apart

i wanna be right by your side

like the times before

cold late nights and i just feel alone

i know I’m far away but i feel you close

you’re always and forever w/ me

w/me w/me w/me

oh oh oh

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verse 2:

i’m sorry that i’m not always there

but the feelings we got it cannot compare

when we’re together i come alive

i want time to stop when you’re with me

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Prechorus:

Sitting in the dark I don’t wanna be alone

Your face drives me crazy let’s take this slow

oohhh ohhh

i don’t wanna go to sleep i just wanna be free

get u in reality and outta my dreams

ohhh ohhh

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CHORUS -

Bridge:

with me with me

c’mon let’s lose control

just never let me go

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CHORUS

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library anxiety lyrics

V1

I know that i’m not the life of the party

baby i hope with all this stress i’ll be fine

Gonna grab all my friends and kick it all weekend

yeah We’ll dance and we’ll drink til we see the sun rise

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Prechorus

Gotta  bottle in one hand got my life in the other

darling i won’t think about one test or another

cuz i had it this week

cannot go through it again

tomorrow i bet that i’ll have

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Chorus

Library anxiety

oh oh oh oh

library anxiety

oh oh oh oh

it  will always follow me

oh oh oh oh

library anxiety

oh oh oh oh

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V2

tonight I maybe partied too hard

Neon lights in my face and i just want to sleep

a girl is telling me her life story

but why do i care I need something to eat

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Prechorus:

got a blunt in one hand got my mind in the other

darling i don’t care about your life or another

cuz what can i say

when somebody wants to chat

tonight i’m a victim of

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Chorus

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Bridge

I can’t classify myself

i don’t know what’s good for my health

i am perfectly fine right now

oh oh oh oh

3 am will come right round

I’m cool with that I’ll sleep it all out

10am I know i’ll have

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Chorus

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Updates!!!

HI! 

It’s 12:58 Friday, April 27. I can’t believe this journey is almost complete. My project is finished (!!!!) and I cannot be prouder with the end product. I’m still finishing up the website, but that work is very miniscule to the hours and hours of effort I have put into this project this semester.

the website is live. www.clarkie.info 

I think using a website is a great way to showcase the entire process of the project as a whole. One can see the entire experience, as well as see what observations i found in my survey study led me to the songs I created.

This past week, I crunch-timed and made two songs, and they both add a new color to the entire ELEMENTS project.

I’m very excited to present my findings tomorrow and have Maryland Day visitors experience the project on Saturday.

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As I was working on my third song, I’ve started figuring out my true process for writing and creating melodies is starting with a theme/phrase idea and a chord pattern.

For this specific song, I wanted to emulate a very typical/chainsmoker sounding/pop/edm song! I feel like dance breaks have become synonymous with pop music. At the time I was thinking about this song, I was working on a paper about library anxiety in college students. This phrase, library anxiety, struck me, as it deals a lot with how I’ve been feeling recently. All of this work has made me stressful and anxious, and feeling these anxieties each week adds up. I also wanted this song to show the social norms of college life, including parties and having to talk and be sociable with everyone 24/7. This also, metaphorically, in a sense is library anxiety. I also work at McKeldin late nights from 2am-5am, so libraries and anxiety are all up in my mind.

I made the melody and lyrics last night at midnight, and my roommate was asleep, so in order to remember my ideas, I had to document them in the bathroom! this is the chorus where I say “Tomorrow I bet that I’ll have library anxiety,” meaning that tonight I’m willing to forget about my stresses in college and party but tomorrow morning I’ll remember that same stress of “library anxiety.” I think it’s really cool to talk about these personal feelings of my tiredness and stress this semester.

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Many catchy songs, I’ve realized, are minimalist, in nature. I’ve realized that it’s hard to produce songs in a minimalistic way. We strive to be complex but complexity does not equal quality.

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I’m currently very inspired by the production and the writing in Billie Eilish’s “Bellyache.” As I’ve started to begin writing lyrics, I’ve found it somewhat hard to speak about how I personally feel about certain things in my life. This song, however, tells a story about Eilish being a murderer. While she’s definitely not a murderer in reality, she has created a fantasy to tell a story about her true feelings about someone or something. I think this is a really great idea, and I’d love to incorporate these writing and production styles in my own writing.

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I’ve started to compose/produce different songs for my project. This audio of this video is from an advertisement jingle I’m working on. Advertisement jingles are designed to be stuck in your head, and what I have created mirrors the same ideas of an actual radio jingle. 

I started with a melody that was fairly simple, and I played around with different instruments playing that melody, but I ultimately played the melody using a bass sound. Fun shakers and percussion help create feelings of happy and attract the listener, and the synth brass chords add an element of campiness that is plagued in many advertisements (especially like... those annoying car commercials).

I’m currently struggling to add lyrics and vocals to the track. I think I want this to be a car radio jingle, so I think it’d be cool to have dialogue as well as a jingle at the end. 

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This week, I’m personally inspired by this song. I grew up listening to this song, and at the time, and now, it felt so different to me. I really like how the instrumental is based off of one core “bar,” and the repetition of the instrumental allows me to remember this song and still get it stuck in my head ten years after it came out! My survey has been showing me that a lot of what’s new and current is getting stuck in people’s heads, and I find it really interesting when I got a response about a song that’s older than a decade.

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this is so calming to look at, after having a really busy week. I’ve been really into collaging recently, and I think I want to incorporate this if my collection of music will have an album artwork.

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Critical Response Process Feedback/Updates

I closed my survey earlier this week, and I’m happy to say that it was done 366 unique times. I’m really excited to dive deeper into this information. I really love working in data analysis, which I do a lot with my major, so this will be great to look at. 

I’ve started working more on big themes, and I just want these songs to be fun and catchy. I’m excited to see how my survey results will affect the elements of catchiness, but I also want to draw heavily on my own ideas of “catchiness”. 

Harold told me, during my advising meeting (which I did not fill out a report for.... very sorry, didn’t realize we had to fill out a separate form from our specific final learning agreeement), that maybe I should include a second survey to ask more in-depth questions about catchiness, but this survey was very successful and I think I have enough information to start making meaning out of people’s responses.

A couple nights ago, my friend Julie Le and I both discussed where we were at with our capstone projects. We used the Critical Response Process to exchange feedback, which helped us constructively and openly exchange ideas and opinions without coming off as opinionated or harsh. For statements of meeting, she really enjoyed my survey and told me that it will work well to collect observations. She neutrally asked me what my next step would be, and I told her that I wanted to work on song composition, as well as survey analysis. I asked her how I could make my presentation better, and she said to include example observations from the surveys. I decided to add a list of songs from people’s responses of what was stuck in their heads.  She did not have any real statements of feedback, other than telling me to add more about the survey. For her capstone presentation, I really liked her concept of blackout poetry, added with visuals. It feels really fresh to me. I asked her if she was going to black-out the whole book, and she told me that she is planning on doing most of the right pages (since the left pages will bleed), but she will do something with added left pages. The whole book will be transformed, and I really like her concept!

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Check-in

My project seems to be going well. I’ve had a really weird week mentally, but i’ve still found some time to work on my project. I’m currently finishing up my survey questionnaire about peoples’ music tastes and preferences, and I’m planning on sending it out via email and Google Form this coming weekend. 

The current survey is as follows:

Do you like listening to music?

Where do you usually listen to music?

streaming on a phone/computer

listening to a physical CD

listening to the radio in the car

I only listen to records… I pride myself in indulging in the finer things that life brings me.

I use music to… (check all that apply)

influence my mood (to make me sadder or happier)

help me focus on school/studying

have background noise

What kind of genres of music do you tend to listen to?

Pop

Rap/Hip-Hop

Electronica/Dance

Indie/Alternative

Rock

Classical

Other (Please list)

Do you tend to pay more attention to lyrics or the instrumental of a song?

lyrics

instrumental

beat

it depends what song I’m listening to

Do you like current pop music? (i.e. Post Malone, Ed Sheeran, Migos, Cardi B, Taylor Swift)

Yes

No

Think about a song you’ve listened to in the past week. What song stands out to you as memorable to you personally? (it can be anything! a song, an advertisement jingle, etc)

Why does this stand out to you?

it struck a chord with me

I thought it sounded cool

I like the lyrics of the song

I just heard this song a lot, and i began to really vibe with it

try no mc

Pick a song from this list of the most popular songs in the country (as of 2/4/18) that you personally enjoy

Perfect — Ed Sheeran

Havana — Camila Cabello feat. Young Thug

Rockstar — Post Malone feat. 21 Savage

Finesse — Bruno Mars & Cardi B

Bad at Love — Halsey

New Rules — Dua Lipa

Thunder — Imagine Dragons

No Limit — G-Eazy feat. Cardi B & A$AP Rocky

Too Good at Goodbyes — Sam Smith

I thought that these questions would help convey people’s music preferences, as well as what they deem “catchy.” I’m planning on dividing up these questions in two parts to elaborate more about preferences and trends I see from the first survey!

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Final Learning Agreement

CPSA 250: College Park Arts Scholars Capstone: Solo Project, Spring 2018

Name: Clark Mitchell

Email: clarkmitchell@me.com

Advisor: Harold

Weekly Meeting Time: WED 5pm

Purpose/Mission Statement:

I hope to learn more about writing and producing music, as well as how different factors of a song help contribute to a song’s overall “catchiness.” I plan on releasing a collection of songs that effectively capture different factors of catchiness.

Learning Objectives:

1. I will create a survey to learn more about people’s trends in regards to their own music listening.

2. After gathering survey data, I tend to categorize similarities in people’s music listening, including different factors of catchiness, like overall subject or the production of a song.

3. Learning more about overall factors that help create earworms, I will begin to conceptualize, write, and produce songs that will embody certain characteristics of catchy songs.

4. I will release, as well as promote the project online for people to listen and to enjoy, and analyze any findings for ArtsFest.

Workshop Process:

I want to begin this process by conceptualizing my own music-listening habits. For the past year, I’ve been using a website called last.fm to further track what I listen to, and what music I’m drawn to. I will develop two or more unbiased surveys that track people’s trends with music listening, as well as try to find out what kind of music and what kind of song characteristics they prefer. Having two surveys, instead of one survey, will allow for a more in-depth analysis of what people like when they listen to music. It’s somewhat hard for people to have a sense of what they find catchy in a song, and creating a follow-up survey will help specify further what kind of music catches. I will also research about the psychology of the earworm, and see if that plays any factors in what deems a song catchy. After I analyze what I have found in the surveys, I will begin writing and creating broad concepts for each song. I will self-produce and record every song. When the project feels complete to me, I will release the work online, as well as promote the collection online and offline. I will present this body of work through a presentation at ArtsFest that tracks any broad findings and for people to listen to the project.

Resources:

Last.FM/Spotify – tracks my own music listening

GoogleForm – documents survey findings

MS Excel – plan to use this to put in every single person’s music trends and to see broad trends and concepts

Garageband/Logic/Audacity  - music software to record and produce project

Soundcloud/Tumblr/Bandcamp – current websites to release music to the internet

Project Timeline:

JANUARY 2018 – APRIL 28 – CONCEPTUALIZE/WRITE/PRODUCE THE PROJECT. This project, to me, is breathing and living, and I personally do not want to hold myself to any deadlines. Since I started the proposal for this project, I have seen myself conceptualizing, writing at every step of the way; however, to make sure the project is finished to what I feel is complete by April 28, the following dates and deadlines will help benchmark what I feel will get this project ready by ArtsFest:

FEB 12 – Advising meeting with Harold

FEB 15 – Revise learning agreement, submit on ELMS

FEB 15 – Finish developing the first survey, release survey on Google Forms.

FEB 21/28 – present First Look at presentation during CPSA250, Wed 5pm

FEB 25 – Close survey, begin analyzing survey #1

FEB 25 – Develop survey #2 from survey #1’s results

MARCH 6 – Close Survey, begin analyzing second survey

MARCH 13 – Finish conceptualizing big picture themes for songs, start writing MARCH 14-APRIL – Advising meeting #2 with Harold

MARCH 20 – begin producing/recording

APRIL12/APRIL 19 – Present second look during CPSA250 APRIL 15 – Try to finish the project

APRIL 20 – Release project/finish any supplementary visuals for the project online

APRIL 26 – Finish ArtsFest exhibition setup, presentation, practice presentation

APRIL 28 - ArtsFest

MAY 2 – Project Pitch/Academic Showcase presentation “Dress Rehearsal,” during CPSA250

MAY 4 – Academic Showcase

MAY 9 – Final Advising meeting with Harold

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