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 opinion he is trying to warn about. This continues through the song, with the negatively associated tunes remaining even when the joyful ones play over the top. With the use of this two-faced appearance, it creates the appearance that everything is truly okay and that things cannot be wrong despite the fact that he is singing otherwise, and the changes in mood also present the happiness as shortlived and a cover over something negative.
Alongside that, Jon Bellion uses this technique in other songs such as 'Morning in America' and 'Fashion', where issues such as America's false facade to being in control and being a perfect community and on the other hand materialistic problems that society now face in regards to consumerist ideas are highlighted and communicated through his songs.
In general, the reason I chose Jon Bellion was because of his ability to communicate his emotions and troubles in a way that people can relate to and felt that his song 'The Internet' was an effective protest against how people use and reinforce the structural mainframes of the internet, that although people can appear accepting, in reality, they don't care as long as they appear better than the next person, and his delivery of the message directly targets those that use the internet in a negative way.
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 opinion he is trying to warn about. This continues through the song, with the negatively associated tunes remaining even when the joyful ones play over the top. With the use of this two-faced appearance, it creates the appearance that everything is truly okay and that things cannot be wrong despite the fact that he is singing otherwise, and the changes in mood also present the happiness as shortlived and a cover over something negative.
Alongside that, Jon Bellion uses this technique in other songs such as 'Morning in America' and 'Fashion', where issues such as America's false facade to being in control and being a perfect community and on the other hand materialistic problems that society now face in regards to consumerist ideas are highlighted and communicated through his songs.
In general, the reason I chose Jon Bellion was because of his ability to communicate his emotions and troubles in a way that people can relate to and felt that his song 'The Internet' was an effective protest against how people use and reinforce the structural mainframes of the internet, that although people can appear accepting, in reality, they don't care as long as they appear better than the next person, and his delivery of the message directly targets those that use the internet in a negative way.
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