"Fairy Tale"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JRtGMBUz0

this is song from the Eurovision contest that was held this past year in Moscow. The interesting thing about this song is the text. The take on the song is very interesting, and I don't know what to properly make of it. The mood seems to contradict itself, and is slighty bipolar. From verse to verse the mood changes. For example he sings "Years ago, when I was younger/ I kinda liked a girl I knew/ she was mine and we were sweethearts." It's very superficial, and nothing quite so deep. This seems to follow more the pop culture views on fairy tale, the "happily ever after" concept.

This contradicts heavily with the chorus "I'm in love with a fairy tale/ Even though it hurts/ Cause I don't care if I lose my mind/ I'm already cursed." Very dark lyrics for something that starts out so happy-go-lucky. I don't know which one to believe, it this really a careless love song, or something much darker? the visual aspects of the chorus follow what I've come to discover over this semester in the literary aspects of fairy tales. Something more morbid, more along the lines of Bluebeard

I think this song, though written for a European contest, proves something interesting about society's relationship with fairy tales. We want the best of both worlds, I think, the entertainment aspect of the death, destruction, and mayhem, along with the pleasing and optimistic characteristics of happily ever after.

Magazine work

So this past weekend I've been working on getting my articles for this magazine in line. I'm finding it to be a very interesting project, as far as creativity is concerned. I've started 'transcribing' my oral presentation into an actual paper, and that is proving to be not something to demanding. I've decided to take it and do the 'spin' aspect of it, and only trying to focus on making it relate to our magazine theme. Since my presentation was on gendering and my magazine in on princess feminism, I've been able to focus on women and how they are gendered.

I've also had similar creative success with my creative project. I'm writing the featured column, and am focusing on the 'woman on woman' abuse. I've taken a stance and get to almost play something of a different character with the writing. I hope to carry that over into the construction of our project, as I think it would help to better 'sell' the magazine. I feel confident with the others in my group, and I do think we'll come up with something that will be very good.

Newspaper Beginnings

On Tuesday we began our last presentation project. This seems like a cool idea and I'm both a little nervous and excited to begin it, basically because not only do we have to write something very good, but we must present it.

After going over logistics of what to do, we broke into groups, and I was soon named editor of our magazine. I don't think that that will be too difficult of a job, and I'm pretty sure that we've gotten our magazine off to a good start. I think we have a good topic, and that we are going to approach the making of this magazine. We are going with a feminist approach, and focusing mainly on Cinderella, and how to become a more independent person.

We will see tomorrow just how well the magazine begins to come together. I hope that we have a good working layout and that we can move it along well.