Album names...

This evening, myself and Emma had a big in depth discussion on our album name and track list. Seen as our music video song is called 'Broken Arrow' we decided to use the theme of sad and depressed love songs as an influence for our album name.


First Idea....We liked the idea of cupid as a symbol of love and the connotations of the word 'cupid' has hidden meanings of arrows, and as we will use sad love songs as our theme we came up with the creative idea of 'Stupid Cupid'. The word 'stupid' pre modifies cupid (the symbol of love) and he is described as being stupid as the love songs are sad and upsetting and our female protagonist is now against love. We also thought this was extremely catchy as it ryhmes and thought it was very creative.

Second Idea...As our theme is sad and upsetting love songs we decided to incorporate the weather into this idea. Stereotypically, sunny hot weather is associated with happy love relationships and rain is associated with sad and upsetting times in a relationship. So we decided to use the word 'rain' as it has the connotations of the setting and mood being sad, grim and upsetting. We then decided to incorporate a colour into this and used the traditional colour of 'Red' as this has the connotations of love and passion as our songs are love songs but also anger as our female protagonist is angry in now angry in love. We combined the two and created 'Red Rain', we thought this was also very catchy due to the monosyllabic words it makes it short and sharp. The alliteration also makes it appear very creative.

We used google for some extra inspiration and found this website, http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/wikipedia-names-your-band, where it creatively generates a band name, an album name and an album cover. Obviously it's a bit random, but will come out different every time so if you didn't like it you could just start over.

From my 'Random' search, I got:

Strambino - As the Band Name. This was found by going onto the website Wikipedia and clicking the link 'Random Article'. This gave me this page about a place in Italy.

One Worth Listening To - Album Name. I quite like this for an album name as it's creative yet obvious at the same time. I found this by going onto
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 and taking the last 4 words from the last quoteon the page at the time.


The quote was: Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985

I thought that this was clever as 'One Worth Listening To' could relate to a Album Name.


From this discussion between myself and Emma, we will share our ideas with Sophie and Elle and as a group come to a decision on which one to choose...

Justification for album name...

A few days ago, I was watching an T4 interview on Cheryl Cole on Channel 4. I took great interest in this as I want to be a Journalist in the future and I also enjoy listening to Cheryl Cole's music.

The interviewer was questioning her on why she named her new album 'Messy Little Raindrops' and what the hidden meaning was. As we are currently in the process of naming our own album, I paid particular attention to this. She said how is it a metaphor-messy little raindrops is how the rain falls all messy and then afterwards it brightens up everywhere and the sun comes out. This relfects the songs on the album as the songs at the start of the album are sad and upsetting but further on in the album they gradually become happier and more upbeat.

The idea using the poetic device of a metaphor to name an album and then relate it to the track order I found really clever and unique as I had not heard of this before. I really liked this idea and might use it when naming my album...