Post 6: My chosen track

A shortlist of the songs I thought of choosing



In the end,  I choose "The Lazy Song" by Bruno Mars

I ended up choosing this song as it had a theme that was unconventional for many pop songs, it was not themed around love or relationships but around just having fun which I thought was quite refreshing.

Some info about the song
Produced and released in 2010 as part of his debut studio album "Doo-Wops and Hooligans"

The song reached number four on the US Billboard Hot 100, while it topped the charts in Denmark and the UK. It charted on most international markets within the top five.

It has been certified six times by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), five times by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and four times platinum by Music Canada (MC), respectively. Worldwide, it was one of the best selling digital singles of 2011 with sales of 6.5 million copies.

The songwriters were Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and K'naan.

Development of "The Lazy Song" began while Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine were hanging around the studio and didn’t feel like working.

Mars wrote the song in collaboration with singer-songwriter K'naan and his production team The Smeezingtons, who also produced the track.

After confirming my choice of song, I analysed the lyrics to find themes that I could build the narrative of my music video around. Here are some of the plans I made.

My lyric interpretation + an initial plan for my narrative