Jon Bellion - The Internet
For my protest song, I chose Jon Bellion's 'The Intenet' to represent my ideas on how social media users interact and create a further level of society that is more imposed than real life. I felt that although the themes of protest were subtle, a music video could amplify the themes that Jon Bellion uses throughout his songs, and as most of his songs are, the song would be generalised enough to hit a wider audience and still have the same impact of people thinking about what changes the Internet has had on their lives. The song itself uses repetition of the same lyrics throughout, which is interesting as it is, but when paired with the lyrics and the representation of expected attitudes that he provides, the mood created becomes one of passive dismissing. His usual style of music goes well with this theming, as his use of dominant bass and mixing of other sounds create a dark tune until the other voices then override the negative emotions, and his words transition into the...
