C.D. Creation

C.D Title: Popular Outcast

C.D. Cover Description: The cover will be black, white, and grayscale so listeners can relate internal issues discussed in the songs to the feeling of lifelessness and colorlessness. It will give off a more serious, dark tone. Also, the picture itself would be of an attractive teen walking down an abandoned street to relay the feeling of being alone and to relate back to the C.D title of “outcast”. The complete title, “Popular Outcast”, means that a lot more people experience these kinds of hardships than one might think, thus one can appear put together or “popular”, yet feel like an outcast. Also, the word “popular” can be taken into perspective as there is an abundance of people who feel like outcasts.

Song Title #1: “It’s not me, It’s you”
Genre: Heavy Metal
Explanation: This song explores the hardships of verbal and emotional abuse that children experience from abusive parents. It will include the severity of these types of abuse and their long-lasting effects on children. Emotions such as low self-esteem, anger, and depression will explode in forms of twisted rage in the song. Frustrations will be touched on as well.

Song Title #2: “Work Hard, Play Harder”
Genre: Rap
Explanation: The demand of sport perfection from athletes of all ages and genders. This is what this song will elaborate on. Rap, being the chosen genre, is an example of one motivational technique that many athletes listen to during workouts or to get “pumped up” before a game. This song will discuss the dangers of steroids, physical health, and over exhausting athletes’ bodies. Where is the line drawn between playing for the love of the game and playing to win?

Song Title #3: “Body of a Goddess”
Genre: Alternative
Explanation: This song travels bravely into the hushed topic of how advertisements, television shows, and magazines determine what is considered beautiful in society today. When eating healthy and exercise is not enough, lyrics will take listeners into a world of a desire to be “beautiful”, what that means, and how it is accomplished, sometimes in disturbing ways. A numb, slow feeling will be portrayed through the genre of the song to illustrate what people go through to get that superhuman body everyone is expecting.

Song Title #4: “Medical Meltdown”
Genre: Country
Explanation: This song will describe the difficulties widowers and families go through while a loved one is in the hospital or has passed away. The song acknowledges how hard it is to try to focus on important obligations like financial ones, when a loved one’s fate is pulling at the strings of a family member’s heart. From the burden of hospital bills to the struggle of coping with bad news, a saddening feel will be evident in the song. Families are already emotionally destroyed during times like these, and the worry of financial demands just piles on.

Song Title #5: “Rock Bottom and Burdens”
Genre: Hard Rock
Explanation: This song will touch on the stresses of young adults and the pressures they experience throughout their progressive years of college. Being under the influence of stress and demand, this rock and roll tempo will illustrate the reality of such fast paced lifestyles and fatal results this age group sometimes experiences. Issues of depression, suicide, alcoholism, and the “need to please” will all be discussed.

Lyrics of "Rock Bottom and Burdens":
Wake up in the morning
No time to relax
So much to think about and do
I feel I’m fading fast

I can’t quite put together
How I’m spreading out so thin
My mind is spinning ‘round
And my world is crumbling

(Chorus)
But study hard and make the grade
Be the best and don’t be late
I’m up I’m down, I’m wrong I’m right
Four in the morning, can’t sleep at night.
Some things are better left unsaid
Put on a smile and do it again
Raise your glass, lay low with me
Numb body with fatal remedy

Wake up in the morning
No time to relax
Life’s slipping through my fingers
I feel I’m fading fast