Reflection - Audio Making - Yukihiro

 We composed a song along with the melody ‘I Want It That Way’ from Backstreet Boys. It was decided that we would sing about studying, and the lyrics were about dissatisfaction to the fact that we had to study many kinds of subjects that were not extremely required for a person. University students do not have to study ones irrelevant of their future, but those in junior high and high schools do. These are the main ideas of the song. Furthermore, it would be possible to understand the lyrics without the melody because we wrote a poem for it first. Usually, we listen to music as ‘music’, not poem, and we do not write a song. Through this activity, we realized that all songs consisted of lyrics and a melody although we do not think of it in daily life. About our song, Tired of studying, we changed nothing but the lyrics. We managed to make it suit the melody well, and made a possible good song. However, it could annoy listeners who love learning many things because we are complaining about studying in the song. As making the song, we found difficult the ways that singers insisted on something in a song for the audience because it is impossible to get listeners to think that our opinions in the melody are completely acceptable.