The Verve 'Bitter Sweet Symphony'

My group members and I sat down and went through a list of music artist and bands to see what song to use for our music video; we had a range of ideas from RnB to Folk music. We believed that others from out media class may go for the usually mainstream kind of music, so we decided to do something different, something nobody would expect we could pull off.

We decided to go for The Verve's 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' which was released in 1997, which would of made me about 4 years old. As you can imagine the song could not have stayed in my head for this long, it is because of the shear quality of the song people still remember it up to this day. The song title 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' really caught my eye because it relates to the good and bad times in life, well that was our understanding of the title. 

The Verve formed in 1989, band members Richard Ashcroft (lead vocalist), Nick McCabe (Guitarist), Simon Jones (Bass Guitarist) and Peter Salisbury (Drummer). They were later joined by Simon Tong (Guitarist and keyboard player). The bands commercial breakthrough was in 1997 with their album 'Urban Hymns' which features our chosen song 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' which became a world wide hit. The album was one of the best selling albums in the UK Chart history. The group would be well known to those who live in the UK because the band are from Wigan and the labels are also well known, Virgin being one of them. 

The genre of our chosen song is alternative rock, this genre really goes well with our thoughts on what we are going to do in the music video. The genre is important as it would allow my group and I to tell some sort of story in the music video. The song choice has limited us from doing some things that are seen in most music videos such as fast edits, fast movements and anything that seems fun and exciting really. This has not really affected us because a lot can be done with our chosen song.