Friday, March 2, 2012

Track 4

        Next on the hit list..... another (and probably final; my fifth song might as well be another one for 1984) one for Animal Farm.  I think it is only fitting to - since I already designated a song to more or less be Napoleon's theme - give Napoleon's favorite "comrade" (sarcasm, of course), Snowball, a beat of his own.  More specifically, this song is meant to represent the post-banishment Snowball (that is, after Napoleon and his dogs give him the boot), and how Napoleon uses Snowball as a sort of scapegoat for anything that goes wrong within the farm, even though in reality Snowball is virtually never involved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA

Track 3

        Alrighty then, the third edition to the Animal Farm / 1984 soundtrack.  I figured that I might as well post a track that relates (or at least that I think sounds like it could relate) to 1984.  I think this tune could represent the thought police (primarily because of the lyrics), as they constantly monitor the actions of everyone - save the proles maybe - keeping them in check (and by that I mean extremely ignorant, angry, and generally depressed) almost with an air of omniscience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBQalkIeE7s

BQ (aka Burger Qing)

        What role does intelligence play in influencing one's moral values and judgement?  That be my "Big Question".  I primarily geared this question towards George Orwell's Animal Farm when I composed it.  I basically intended the question to target the pigs in specific; how their intelligence (relative to the other farm animals) has influenced their judgement and actions.  It would definitely appear that the pigs' superior intelligence is the main reason why their word (especially Old Major's, and later Napoleon's) is typically revered be their fellow animals, and makes them optimal leaders - but how does it actually affect their judgement or their morals?  Although he was only included in the opening chapters of the book, Old Major seemed to want what was best for his fellow farm animals, but Napoleon and his minions (primarily Squealer) feed lies to their "comrades", and really only wish to exploit them for their own self-benefit.  So does the pigs' intelligence cloud their judgement?  Not necessarily, but it does seem to give them more potential to take advantage of others (since they can effectively figure out how to).          

Songy-Poo numbuh 2

        Alright then, the next song in the Animal Farm OST (well, not exactly).  Seriously though, this one's supposed to be a theme for Napoleon's ever-tightening grip over his "comrades", and how, despite the fact that they are being ever more oppressed with every passing day, they are too brainwashed by their "valiant" leader to be conscious of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgcY6qlzdf8

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Songy-Poo

This'll be my first entry on this blog (not to mention it also being my first "soundtrack" entry).  I guess I figured that the efforts of the animals, as workers, was an important aspect of Animal Farm - especially those of Boxer, who more or less carried the other workers both in morale and as a leader by example.  So I suppose this could pretty much serve as a theme song for Boxer's motto of "I will work harder", and the overall toll that the extremely demanding hours of manual labor have on the farm animals - and eventually Boxer as well (when he gets injured, then bites it).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWXo3tVnc-s