Chosen song

The song we have decided to use for our music video is a song by the band Tame Impala off of their album 'Currents' which was released in 2015. We have chosen to use this song 'Let it Happen'. The song seems to be editing itself in real time with all manner of filters, manipulated vocals, swirling ambience, and a startling midsection where he mashes down the looper button and holds it. (This effect is given throughout the song but mainly during the last minute).

While Parker’s verses suggest the pressures of touring, critical expectation, and even disappointing his mother, neither his tone nor the pace is ever panicked. “All this running around, I can’t fight it much longer, something’s trying to get out and it’s never been closer,” Parker sings in a disarmingly mellow tenor. Instead of panicking about the necessity to create and impress, “Let it Happen” breezes by, a steady drum beat buoying Parker’s titled refrain. Tame Impala has often operated in muted emotional tones, frantic and angst-ridden lyrics balanced with lilting collages of synthesized and stringed upbeat instrumentation. The band achieves the same dichotomy here, but it seems even more confusingly natural when comparing to their previous songs. It’s clear that, despite the song’s lyrical anxiety, Parker knows he has everything under control. this impression is given by the fact that the song’s backing goes from little more than ancillary for its word-heavy first portion, to central for its percussive middle, to simply staggering for its harmonic fadeout. Most impressive is a section in the middle of the song where Parker incorporates 30 seconds of a single, repeated synth note. The pulsing, percussive reiteration is a far cry from accelerating and self-conscious mainstream EDM drops. When the drums build, the melody darkens and a modulated version of the main synth line bursts forth from the drone without any quickening of tempo. Despite its simplicity, the swell is just as exhilarating as any more complex instrumental coda. The last two minutes of the song, which find Parker harmonizing with himself. Given his meticulous production and song craft, it’s hard to believe Parker can be taking his own meditative advice.

After analysing the tempo, logistics, melody and some of the outstanding lyrics within 'Let it Happen' we then attempted to link this to some ideas we had relating the narrative of our music video. We have decided to base our plot lines on the idea of 'Binary Opposition' a binary opposition is a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning. We aim to work with around ten individuals within our music video. Eight of which are divided into couples and two which are reserved as extras and could be used in shots with neon glow in the dark face paint and abstract innovative shots that link back to the psychedelic genre. When looking further into the narrative behind our music video we decided to take major inspiration from similar artists and Tame Impala themselves, because of this I will be looking into music videos that are in keeping with our chosen genre and looking for shots in which we can take inspiration and guidance from.