Song lyrics

"Count On Me" - Bruno Mars

[Verse 1:]
Oh uh-huh
If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea
I'll sail the world to find you
If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't see
I'll be the light to guide you

Find out what we're made of
When we are called to help our friends in need

[Chorus:]
You can count on me like 1, 2, 3
I'll be there
And I know when I need it
I can count on you like 4, 3, 2
You'll be there
'Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah
Ooooooh, oooohhh yeah, yeah

[Verse 2:]
If you're tossin' and you're turnin'
And you just can't fall asleep
I'll sing a song beside you
And if you ever forget how much you really mean to me
Every day I will remind you

Oooh
Find out what we're made of
When we are called to help our friends in need

[Chorus:]
You can count on me like 1, 2, 3
I'll be there
And I know when I need it
I can count on you like 4, 3, 2
You'll be there
'Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah
Ooooooh, oooohhh yeah, yeah

You'll always have my shoulder when you cry
I'll never let go, never say goodbye
You know...

[Chorus:]
You can count on me like 1, 2, 3
I'll be there
And I know when I need it
I can count on you like 4, 3, 2
You'll be there
'Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah
Ooooooh, oooohhh

You can count on me 'cause I can count on you

Postmodern music video analysis

Media - Postmodern Music Video Essay

Modern vs Postmodern

Media - Modern vs Postmodern

I think both concepts are equally hard to understand at first. However, after learning a bit about postmodernism I believe I have greater knowledge in postmodernism as I am able to pick out some features of postmodern work. For example, I know that some conventions of postmodernism include: intertextuality, parody and pastiche.

Orange Caramel – My Copycat

Voiceover script

0:00 In the beginning, Orange Caramel are shown to be wearing red and white striped clothing with a red and white hair accessory as well as round glasses. This is an intertextual reference to the famous children’s book Where’s Wally as they are imitating the appearance of the character Wally.

0:38 On the dress of one of the girls, there is an example of bricolage as it shows a combination of a range of different logos including Apple, Starbucks and Mickey Mouse.

1:09 There are many scenes which display a crowd of people dancing to song, where Orange Caramel are hidden within those people and the audience are encouraged to find where they are in the scene. Much like Where’s Wally, the people in the scene are wearing relatively similar clothing to make it hard to find them.

2:07 Another example of bricolage is shown in this scene as it is constructed from a diverse range of things including a dance stage, bowling alley, table tennis and variety of different outfits on the several people in the scene.

2:53 The whole video is quite playful as it engages the audience to play the games within the music video.

Lyotard

He noted the term “grand narrative” in the book ‘The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge’.

He proposes what he calls an extreme simplification of the “postmodern” as an ‘incredulity* towards meta-narratives’.
(*incredulity–the state of being unwilling or unable to believe something)

He rejects “grand narratives” or universal “meta narratives”. An example is that he rejects the ideas that everything is knowable by science or that as history moves forward in time, humanity makes progress. He opposes universal political “solutions” such as communism and capitalism as well as the idea of absolute freedom.

He notes that no one seemed to agree on what, if anything, was real and everyone had their own perspective and story.

Metanarrative – a narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge

Baudrillard

He argues that today there is no such thing as reality.

He developed the idea of simulation and simulacra.

Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no reality to begin with or that no longer have an original.
Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time.