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With the parody song we were assigned to do, I chose the song Laugh Now, Cry Later, by Drake and Lil Durk. The song appealed to me as it had a catchy beat that was fairly easy to follow and made lyric writing easy. In the song, I sing about online distance learning and how it has taken a toll on my life. My inspiration was the amount of work I have due within a short period and seeing my grades inevitably goes down in percentages. The song is meant to reflect my personal feelings on the situation with Covid-19 and I believe that it others can relate to as it is a hard time to be learning when there are other things to be worried about. With the song, I can give others a glimpse of what students go through and how they feel. As the production of the song progressed, I grew as an artist by making my workload go more smoothly and managing the production of the song through thorough planning. As I made the song, some of the obstacles that I encountered were writing out lyrics that matched the same syllable count as the original lyrics. This was a tedious process as it would take up to five minutes to write each line as I would have trouble matching syllable counts. Eventually, with time, I wrote all the lyrics and it came together fairly well. Another obstacle I faced was singing the song out. Having a lisp that can become easily noticeable out of nowhere makes pronouncing the "s" and "c" in the song difficult and it took multiple tries as it would disrupt the flow of the song. I would change the parody by being more pronounced with the lyrics as I noticed it sounded monotonous in some parts of the song. However, I am proud that I was able to implicate the skills we learned using Pro Tools and using them when re-producing the song. With those skills, I can implicate them in later projects as I can remove the lyrics of a song and make it as if it was an instrumental. This project changed my perspective of other people’s art as we were told to purposely sing bad, and although it was quite embarrassing, seeing other people do the same made me feel more confident in my work as I try to embrace the purposely poor performance of the song.