POST #46 - FINAL SONG CHOICE

My final song choice is "More Than Just Memes" by Elliot Gough.

After spending some time working on the All Star idea, I became less and less interested to use it, and found myself falling in some pitfalls that I wanted to avoid; for example, the opening scene being more edgy, which is something I didn't want at any point.

In response to this, I decided to change my song to Elliot Gough's "More Than Just Memes".

"Dat's vewy nice."

The link to my chosen theme of memes is clearer with this song choice, given that it's right in the title. It also allows me to have more fun with the music video, which is something I was aiming for from the beginning. A key difference between the two songs is that More Than Just Memes was written to be a meme deliberately, whereas All Star was written as a song that would be taken seriously; the kind of song you'd hear on the radio.

 I'm keeping a similar story, about Alan Hamlin dealing with his breakup. I will have to change it a little bit, just to match the lyrics of this song better than All Star; this means having to alter the story of Alan becoming a musician to something more appropriate. 

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