My Chosen Track

The track I have chosen to use in my media coursework is a song from Cocorosie's album 'Grey Oceans', called "Lemonade". 

"Lemonade" is 3 minutes 26 seconds long, starting with a mellow piano opening and adding strings, woodwinds, electronic percussion, and interlocking vocals.
The lyrics are captivating yet hard to decipher, which creates a mysterious feel to the track. I have found it difficult to pinpoint "Lemonade" to a particular genre, and an in depth Internet search made me realise that there is no particular genre. Cocorosie's music has been labelled "Freak Folk" and incorporates elements of pop, blues, opera, electronica and hip hop.
"Lemonade" is one of Cocorosie's more subtle tracks, that incorporates all these genres (bar opera) in a slow, calm manner, manipulating the vocals and layering them to create an almost melancholy ambiance to the track.


Generally the music/artists that has the same mismatched array of technique and style are trying to make a statement or create their own stance in the music industry, piling technique and genre together to create their own, unique recipe.
Other artists that do this include "Johanna Newsom", "Cat Power" and "The Fleet Foxes".

Cat Power

Things that can appear in music videos for this type of song are wide and varied. There is often a very surrealist approach taken, as has been for the official video for "Lemonade", where the woman have facial hair and everything is quite spooky.  The video does not always tend to be directly related to the lyrics of the song, concentrating more on the ambiance and feel of the music, the video will often reflect this directly.

Fleet Foxes

Joanna Newsom