Journalism and Mass Media in the UK - Case Study Example

Journalism and mass media By Believe in Me is a journalism that was produced in United Kingdom and made available in several websites. The music was produced by Bonnie Taylor. The producer was a successful in her music career worked with greater writers, producers and made her more popular in the music industry in the United Kingdom (John and Taupin, 2004). She started her performance as early as when she was at the age of 17. Bonnie Taylor is best known for her other works such as featuring in Jim Stainemen song, Total Eclipse Of The Heart and Hold Out For A Hero. Her success in the industry has been the great with her having number one albums in both sides of the Atlantic. Her performance has enable her nomination to the Grammy Awards, has worn the Yamaha World Song Festival and sold over 20 million records in her music career (John and Taupin, 2004). She still continues to perform in many world tours and participate in live shows that she loves to best do. The journalism has worked well in achieving the attention of the audience due to the good lyrics that lifts up those who hear it. The reason for composition of the song by the artist was to uplift the world through the song which the lyrics do. The publication of the song was done in 2013 and released as a single by Celtic Swan records. The song was mainly composed with the aim of uplifting the world. The content of the song is on Tyler telling her love who she thought did not believe in love or region to just try to believe in her. Several amendments were made in the song so that it could well serve the purpose and portray well the message (Tragaki, 2004). The rules of song duration did not favor the song and to comply with these rules, the album version was divided to three minutes and three seconds each. This was to allow it for radio and live plays. The photography was done by the journalist nephew and in the Eurovision song Contest; the song featured at position 93 in the United Kingdom but did not appear in any other song chart or contest There were mixed reactions and reviews about the song and the song was of much blame for the overall score of Tyler in the contest (Tragaki, 2004). Despite the blame in the song performance, the journalist still won some single in Eurovision Contest radio Awards. This was the first time a representative of the United Kingdom won a category in the ESC radio history. Discussion on the work has been made in social sites such as Twitter and Facebook (John and Taupin, 2004). Those that heard the work have given their opinions on the lyrics through the social sites and even voted for the song in different occasions. Background of the song is from 1998. At this time, Tyler was working on her new album Rocks and Honey. She recorded the album in the Blackbird studio and released it in 2013 in Europe. The final release of the final song was done in United Kingdom and Ireland by Celtic Swan records. The journalist explained that the song had already been written before it was suggested by the BBC to enter in the Eurovision (Simon, 2008). The song also has been added to the Sing Star store and used as a karaoke track. The revision done to the song was a remix by Blutonium Boy and Matty Menk which was released by Celtic Swan Records. Accessing the song was done by official publication of the music video on the BBC official you Tube Cannell in 2013. The publication of the video was done by BBC in the late March. Composition of the song was not known but the journalist told the press that she finished composing the song at dinner. In an interview, the journal explained the similarities that were in the lyrics and Desmond said that they wanted to write a song that they thought would uplift the world. They were happy that Bonnie sang Believe In Me and that it got chosen by those that were concerned to represent United Kingdom. The access can be from different websites including www.youtube.com/watch?v=-agn-ERgTXA and www.eurovision.tv/page/history/year/participant-profile/?song=29803 Bonnie Taylor was born in United Kingdom with the birth name being Gaynor Hopkins. The singer is known for many of her songs including, Lost in France, Total Eclipse of the Heart, holding up for a Hero and Bitterblue. After the start of her music career, she spent seven years with her performance mainly in clubs and pubs. Her album has won her Gunners world records of being the first female artist from UK to be at the top of album chart in 1983. Her voice is described to be husky which results from an operation that she got to remove the vocal nodules in 1970s. Taylor was brought up in a religious background as her mother was a church choir member. Her family all loved music. Her mother many listened opera music while her siblings listened to artists and groups she concluded her education in 1960s without any qualification and began her life by working in a local grocery shop. At the age of 17, she entered in a local music contest finishing in the second place and that earned her one dollar. Her music career has been since 1976 to 1981 where she had early success where she began recording tracks and being nominated for several awards as the best newcomer (McNair, 2009). Between 1882 and 1986, she had released four albums for record but was not satisfied by those that managed her songs, Scott and Wolfe. Between 1990 and 2003, she obtained success from Europe with Hasna Records and discarded Andrea Bocelli duet. Influence to perform music was due to the fact that she was born in a music family allowing her to listen to wide range of music with her first performance being singing a song in the church where she attended. She was influenced by other artists such as Janis Joplin and Tina Turner (McNair, 2009). Her music contained more elements of pop, Celtic, rock, country and blues. Reception of the journal was critical with initial release having mixed reviews from the music critics. The song was described and rated in different ways. UKMIX described the song as having pretty nice lyrics and also a smooth vocal delivery. The description was however not strong as there was also doubt whether the song could be the right choice to represent in the Eurovision Song Contest. There was prediction that the song would lead to suffering in critics by Tyler. The rating by Digital Spy was two stars out of five. The rating was due to the comment that they made that the song was a polar opposite to what they thought could enter the contest of the year. They however applaud the journalist for entering the contest with the song that they thought to be contrasting (Raykoff and Tobin, 2007). Rating by The Guardian was after they held a poll in their website where they asked the public if they expected Tyler to be successful in the Eurovision contest. The results that were obtained were even with 46% of the public thinking that Tyler would win. 56 percent thought that the song could not win. Description from Daily Mirror by Ann Gripper was that the song was heartfelt and she thought that Tyler was still good at singing (Raykoff and Tobin, 2007). She criticized the person who wrote the song by choosing of words “above” and “stuff” as rhymes in the first lyrics. The analyst also noted that the song was not felt like the one that was presented in 2012, Euphoria. The parts that were thought not to have done well were the lines "you never see the rainbow, you just curse the rain" as an improvement, and an opportunity to "have some fun with the staging on finals night in Malmo." The lines did not bring the feelings of lifting the world as it was expected by the artist. Success in the work Believe In Me was due to performance and promotions that the song received. The song was first performed in Berlin where the journalist was featured as a guest in the Rock Meets Tour. Tyler was still involved with the tour where she was to make several performances when it was announced that she would be representing the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in May (OConnor, 2010). She was much delighted by the opportunity that the song was given to represent the UK and after appearing on The One Show in London, she returned to Germany to begin promoting the song as she knew the song needed more promotion from even other countries for better contest. Before she could perform in the contest to uplift the video, she allowed German TV show film team to publish a video from visiting her house a few weeks before to they could interview her on her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. The allowance was to enable her more exposure and at the interview the public had known more about the song (OConnor, 2010). On the same day she also underwent several interviews with media organizations. After the interviews by the other organizations at mid-day, Tyler was interviewed and then performed an audio version of the song on BBC Radio 2s Weekend Wogan with her Eurovision group. The performance was in form of a rehearsal before they could perform in the contest. The success of the article was obtained by copying the techniques that are used by the successful people in the industry. The journalism was done in consideration of the competition that had been in the Eurovision Song Contest. The coping and consideration of other works that had been done by other journalists enabled as they enabled the solving of problems and answering questions that came up in the work (OConnor, 2005). This increased the knowledge of the people on the song and how the song came to be. Better observation of the journalist enabled getting more idea on what to include in the song and the words to use so that she could be able to do well the attentions and feelings of those that were listening to the song. Composition of the song was all about ideas, plans and actions (OConnor, 2005). The ideas and findings brought out the lyrics that enabled the completion of the song. References John, E. and Taupin, B. (2004). Believe in me, the complete lyrics. New York: Hyperion. McNair, B. (2009). News and journalism in the UK. London: Routledge. OConnor, J. (2005). The Eurovision Song Contest. London: Carlton. OConnor, J. (2010). The Eurovision Song Contest. London: Carlton. Raykoff, I. and Tobin, R. (2007). A song for Europe. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. Simon, P. (2008). Lyrics 1964-2008. New York: Simon & Schuster. Tragaki, D. (2004). Empire of song. New York: Hyperion Read More