Three Potential Songs- Pros and Cons

As a group we have decided on the Hip-Hop/Rap genre and have come to three potential song choices which are “Settle Down” by Jake Miller, “In Vein” by Rick Ross and The Weeknd and finally “Determination” by Dot Rotten. To help me choose between the songs I have thought about the pros and cons for all three songs.

In the Jake Miller song he talks about girls wanting to settle down with him but he isn’t into the girls that want him. The song has quite a fast pace which is good because the editing could be made fast as well. There is no swearing in the song or any inappropriate language in the song and the video could have an intertextual reference in it. The bad thing about the song is the lyrics are not that good. The concept of the song itself does not appeal to me because it seems quite immature to just be talking about girls and there wouldn’t be a lot of editing put into the video.

The Rick Ross song with The Weeknd he is talking about girls, the people around him and how his career has changed his life. The song is really nice and slow and the concept is really good which makes me like the song even more. The instrumental is quite slow so the editing could be made slowly as well but you could edit the video so scenes cut to the beat which would look really good. However, the song may be too slow and there is a lot of swearing in the video which are really noticeable.

The Dot Rotten song is about him being really determined to keep on making music despite everything he has been through which was really negative towards him. I really liked the concept of the video because it is really inspirational and positive. The tempo of the song is fast which is good because fast editing will look really good and you could do a lot of editing with fast tempo songs. The instrumental sounds really dark and has a deep bass which is what makes the track better that way the editing will coincide with instrumental. The only bad thing about the song is that parts of the song are repeated again and again in the song and can get a bit annoying.