Summer Work task 2 - Boy Band

Take That

Take That are an English five-piece vocal pop group comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the lead singer and primary songwriter.In total, the group have had 27 top 40 singles and 16 top 5 singles in the United Kingdom alone, 11 of which have reached number 1, as well as having seven number 1 albums. For factual information look on the wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_That.



This take that song was made and released in 1995, this song was towards the end of the band's success before they broke up. The music video for 'Never forget' features a variety of different videos and photos of the band in their younger years and some of their biggest moment in their music careers, it also shows clips of their live performances and their audiences reaction to their music. Using such clips as this portrays the success and power that their band gained over the years between 1990 and 1996. Simiarly featuring personal clips and footage of the band mates in their younger years builds the sense of pesonailsation and removes the barrier between fan and celebrity; using this they allow their fans to feel closer to the band, creating the impression that the band are connected with their fans and creating the sense that their are 'just like everyone else' and 'human'.

A newer song of theirs, after their comeback, is 'The Flood'. his song was released in 2010, as this was their first song reunited as a band it was already sought after. In this stage of their career they had an incredibly large fan base, their older fans from their original days, combined with the newer fans on the 21st century.

Summer Work task 2 - Soul/jazz

Amy Winehouse is and was clearly one of the most media covered artist this century; she began her controversial music career as a young woman in 2003, releasing her album 'Frank'. As she was just emerging the media she became critically successful and won a prestige music award; then in 2006 she took a turn. As her music career rocketed, so did her life. She began taking drugs and drinking often, so often that she became very popular with the papparazzi and the media; they were obsessed with her.



The hit single 'rehab' was extremely successful, currently with 14 million veiews on youtube; she even won 5 grammy awards and a record for "First British female to have 5 wins". The song rehab reflects her drug and alchocolic elements in life, and how it was getting to the stage where she was risking her life and health.



The song 'Back to Black' was yet another famous song of hers; depicting the love/hate  relationship that she ahnd then husband 'Blake'. The music video has black and white filter over the video; making the words 'black, in the title of the song even more evident; also creating the tone and symbol of emotion representing her 'black'' and negative moods.

The content of the video consists on a storyline of a woman going to a fumeral; her emotions and her moods. The words closely relate  to what happens in the video, 'I died a hundred times' and then semantic link with a funeral, death, and graveyards. Similarly the words 'Goodbye' and 'I go back to...' have the semantic link to the music.