The Chainsmokers
Depth always has a shallow surface. This may come as a relief to many baby boomers and even some millennials themselves as they anticipate the future by the look of where it’s heading. We have tweeting presidents, teens who would rather spend their time photographing their lives than living them, and babies mastering smart phones. While these all seem very detrimental and counteractive to everything the earlier generations attempted to teach us about the path to happiness, that might just not be the case. The millennials are having an awakening, according to trends in popular music. DJ duo, Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall who joined together to form the Chainsmokers, had a breakthrough with the release of the 2014 international hit single “#selfie”
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The Chainsmokers represents the illusion our society has been sucked into as ‘paris’, defined in the beginning of the lyrical music video as “1: a sentimental yearning for a reality that isn’t genuine 2: an irrecoverable condition that evokes nostalgia or daydreams.” Today, technology is making it easier and easier to falsify reality, resulting in a distorted understanding of happiness. This stands true with addictions, depression, or any other situations that evoke a desired escape. This message in unclear until looking solely at the sounds and melody and how it is used to amplify desired lyrical messages. The song begins with a slow build up of withheld piano chords. This simple beat is intensified with the addition of a steady base that stands as the foundation for the tempo of the song. Gradually, more uncomplicated tapping and background melodic sounds are added to exaggerate the lyrics that follow which read, ‘if we go down then we go down together’. This is meant to represent the voices of other generations ridiculing our society and showing hopelessness in our future. The sounds strip down to a basic guitar buildup meant to increasingly magnifies the lyrics, ‘let's show them we are better’, which is followed by a sucking or drawback of sound, then a sudden pause. Rests are often used in music as an indicator of importance before the unleashing of the more active, energetic and upbeat melody used in the chorus. This shift demonstrates hope where society is saying there is none. By keeping melody upbeat, the audience is able to accept their defaults with an attitude of innovation rather than self-pity. The lyrics ‘let's show them we are better’ is inducing an intrinsic motivator of proving the earlier generations of judgemental critics wrong about their accusations of being unrightfully
The Chainsmokers represents the illusion our society has been sucked into as ‘paris’, defined in the beginning of the lyrical music video as “1: a sentimental yearning for a reality that isn’t genuine 2: an irrecoverable condition that evokes nostalgia or daydreams.” Today, technology is making it easier and easier to falsify reality, resulting in a distorted understanding of happiness. This stands true with addictions, depression, or any other situations that evoke a desired escape. This message in unclear until looking solely at the sounds and melody and how it is used to amplify desired lyrical messages. The song begins with a slow build up of withheld piano chords. This simple beat is intensified with the addition of a steady base that stands as the foundation for the tempo of the song. Gradually, more uncomplicated tapping and background melodic sounds are added to exaggerate the lyrics that follow which read, ‘if we go down then we go down together’. This is meant to represent the voices of other generations ridiculing our society and showing hopelessness in our future. The sounds strip down to a basic guitar buildup meant to increasingly magnifies the lyrics, ‘let's show them we are better’, which is followed by a sucking or drawback of sound, then a sudden pause. Rests are often used in music as an indicator of importance before the unleashing of the more active, energetic and upbeat melody used in the chorus. This shift demonstrates hope where society is saying there is none. By keeping melody upbeat, the audience is able to accept their defaults with an attitude of innovation rather than self-pity. The lyrics ‘let's show them we are better’ is inducing an intrinsic motivator of proving the earlier generations of judgemental critics wrong about their accusations of being unrightfully