Song+Pairings

= Song Pairings (Contemporary and Classic Connections) =
 * On this page we with explore songs with similar themes or elements. Since you are already exploring this connection in your final theme project I thought it would an interesting exercise to explore songs from a classic (older than 50 years) and contemporary songs. Please include the lyrics to both songs, writing credits, year released. Then you will create an album cover for these songs by designing a digital collage. Please include a reflection on the connection you found between the songs and how your album cover reflects this shared theme. Here is the rubric for this assignment: [[file:Digital Collage Rubric.xls]]**

[|Bille Holiday: "Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)"] Written by Jimmy Davis, Roger Ramirez, and James Sherman. 1941 [|Michael Buble: "Haven't Met You Yet"] Written by Michael Buble, Alan Chang, and Amy Foster-Gilles, 2009
 * //__Longing for Love: Songs from the 1940s to the Current__//**

Though these songs are separated by nearly seventy years, that both address the emotions of longing for your true love. This demonstrates how music addresses emotions are part of the human experience that transend time. In "Lover Man(Oh Where Can You Be)" discusses the immense lonliness that she experiences when waiting for her lover man to come along. "Someday we'll meet/and you'll dry all my tears/then whisper sweet little things in my ear" In "Haven't Met You Yet" Buble is also wishing for his love to arive, but the song has a more optimistic tone: "And I know someday that it'll all turn out/You'll make me work, so we can work to work it out/And I promise you kid, that I give so much more than I get/I just haven't met you yet" This songs express a theme that people both in the 1940s and today resonate with, expemplifing the enduring quality of the poetry found in the lyrics of music. = = The digital collage I created for this album reflected the longing I felt the songs both expressed. I used imagery of love, marriage, and relationship to symbolize the things the artist was expressing a desire for in the lyrics. I also used imagery of waiting and wishing to show reflect about how the artists does not have the things they desire, b ut is waiting and wishing that they will soon arrive. Lastly I used an image of loneliness to express the general emotion the artists currently feel because of their lack of love and companionship.

-Ms. Hedstrom

Below is another great example of a digital collage made by Susan Steffen: