We are four A2 media students at long road Sixth Form College in Cambridge. As part of our course we are making a music video, for this we have chosen one of Texas’s songs – ‘tell me the answer.’ Although we are aware that you are no longer a band, we would still like to do this song, we chose this song because we enjoyed the lyrics and tune.
We have a few initial ideas for this song that may or may not develop, but we are wondering if you could tell us the inspiration and story behind this song to give us an idea on how to betray this song.
Split screen of a multiple personality disorder. The girl will be displayed as sane (happy), sketchy sane/insane, and then totally insane.
Story of sane person: All loved up, constantly happy, Girly night in showing her outgoing side all in there pj's, slightly in the style of Bridget Jones. Phone rings (Boyfriend) all girls joke and get excited about it.
Story of Sketchy person: Starts to constantly ring boyfriend, check his phone and then follows his every move to check up on him. Boyfriend catches her stalking him and gets angry then she chucks things everywhere and breaks down crying against the wall. Then he finish's with her...
Insane: inspiration from Disturbia by Rhianna, Set in a dark place, full of knifes, razors, a mirror and torches. She will be banging against the wall and confused by what the camera is in the style of Christina Aguilaria in Fighter. Show some scars across her body showing a totally insane person.
These are songs by Texas which we will use as inspiration, Called 'You can say what you want', 'Halo' 'when we are together' and 'you can say what you want (rare version)'
I'm a new soul I came to this strange world Hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take. But since I came here Felt the joy and the fear Finding myself making every possible mistake
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...
I'm a young soul in this very strange world Hoping I could learn a bit bout what is true and fake. But why all this hate? Try to communicate Finding trust and love is not always easy to make.
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...
This is a happy end Cause' you don't understand Everything you have done Why's everything so wrong
This is a happy end Come and give me your hand I'll take your far away.
I'm a new soul I came to this strange world Hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take But since I came here Felt the joy and the fear Finding myself making every possible mistake
Lyrics and Live performance of Texas - Tell me the answer
"Tell Me The Answer"
I doesn't feel right The lights are too bright I'm feeling uptight in my sensual world I need to be you I need to breathe too I need to see through life With these sensitive words
I could blame it on you I could blame it on my instincts I could blame it on the train to the plane The boat to the shore So tell me what's the answer
No trouble in my face There's not one anxious voice You know I can't listen I can't listen You say that you are everything Do you taste good So c'mon, c'mon, c'mon C'mon, c'mon, c'mon
No air around me I need to feel free I'm private property In my sensual world No indecisions I have a vision There's no collision there With these sensitive words
I could blame it on you I could blame it on my instincts I could blame it on the train to the plane The boat to the shore So tell me what's the answer
No trouble in my face There's not one anxious voice You know I can't listen I can't listen You say that you are everything Do you taste good So c'mon, c'mon, c'mon C'mon, c'mon, c'mon
No trouble in my face There's not one anxious voice You know I can't listen I can't listen You say that you are everything Do you taste good So c'mon, c'mon, c'mon C'mon, c'mon, c'mon
No trouble in my face There's not one anxious voice You know I can't listen I can't listen You say that you are everything Do you taste good So c'mon, c'mon, c'mon C'mon, c'mon, c'mon
All from too much choice yeh yeh
I could blame it on the train to the plane The boat to the shore So tell me what's the answer
For this project we have to choose one song from a list 13 randomly chosen. This songs include:
1. I live for - Johnny Panic 2. 101 Pianos (I've put out the lights) - Lewis Parker 3. Way back into love - Hayley Bennett 4. Lies are much more fun - The Grates 5. On love, in sadness - Jason Mraz 6. Another Saturday in a lonely town - Sparehed 3 7. New soul - Yael Naim 8. Areoplanes and Neon Lights - Kid Harppon 9. White Russian Galaxy - The crimea 10. The pony song - Au Rivoir Simone 11. Please, Please, Please - Shout out louds 12. Rock and Roll - The Redwalls 13. Tell me the answer - Texas
From this list of songs we have chosen Texas - Tell me the answer as we believed it was the best set of lyrics, we thought we could do something really creative with this song. Texas was also the only one with an up beat, women performer where as the other women performers were quite depressing songs. Although we do have a backup song which is New Soul by Yael Naim this our second choice as it had just a women performer and also had an ok beat in the background but we were not so keen on the lyrics as they didnt really make sense and had no structure.
The reason we needed to have just a women singing was because as you can see the group is all girls and we thought it would be complicated if we had to rely on a boy that we had never worked with before.
We have worked together last year for both our Kids TV and Thriller and therefore we share the different skills to do with shooting and editing a short film/music video however some of us have a specific skills in certain areas.
Rosie and Lauren work well as a team when it comes to shooting the footage but also enjoy editing and therefore share the tasks.
Naomi also likes to edit and shot and again helps out with both, but she also likes to be in front of the camera showing off her talent of performing.
Mel likes to be creative with the music along with Rosie and again helps out with the editing, she also likes to perform in front of the camera being the main performer in the footage.
As a group we take part in everything especially when it comes to ideas for the video.
