Dan Black

When i first heard Dan Blacks song i thought he had sampled something from Jay-Z; after being told what it actually was i was half right half wrong, he hadn't sampled anyone as the beat was never created by Jay-Z. But where i had got that thought from is that Jay-Z and Rihanna had used the same beat in their hit Umbrella. 


Task 1


Addition: where you add something to an original to change its meaning. Dan black added more to the original beat
Deletion: taking something out to change the original meaning.
Substitution: swapping something to change its meaning. Dan Black swaps the Rihanna lyrics for his own.
Transposition: taking two things that are completely unrelated and putting them together. For example the video is full of different movies that wouldn't usually go together. And also the video and the lyrics do not match at all

Task 2


The intertextual reference in the song come all from the video and are post modern because they are all really obvious, some just have a few tweaks such as the Godzilla one. Others are;

- Universal Pictures (with the logo at the start)

- Lost Highway

- Starman

- A Bout De Souffle (which is a type of french tv)

- King Solomon's Mines

- Bonanza

- E.T

- Thunderbirds

- The original tron
- Catch me if you can

Task 3

The video for Symphonies fits in the with the statement by Charles Jencks as Dan Black has taking the ideo of movies and gone overboard by using as many bits from different movies at he could.

Also theres as version of the video where Kid Cudi has joined Dan Black for the vocals which is post modern in itself as the whole process has come full circle with Dan using the beat from a R&B artist to take the mic out the industry to an R&B artist using the adapted beat and the new video for his own profit. Also becuase of Kid Cudis name that version will have made more money which is something post modernist would find funny as that is what they're getting at with names making song money.