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The song that my group and I created a parody on was “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel. Our song’s title changed to “We Didn’t Have Any Ideas” and our inspiration behind that came from the fact that we couldn’t think of anything to write our parody about despite talking about it for two hours. We took all of those ideas that we talked about and put them into one song. “We Didn’t Start the Fire” worked well for this because the song does a ton of listing items, which is what we did as well. The song goes anywhere from My Little Pony to Trump and Biden.
While working on this parody I learned that at Freestyle you can’t be scared of being loud or taking up space. At first recording was hard because, yes, other people could hear you recording. But you have to get over that and by getting over that we were able to create our masterpiece. This was the first time I’ve used Audition, but I found it not too hard to use for most basic things like cutting or adding reverb. I learned a lot about Audition and was able to learn how to cut audio, change the volume, and make different changes to the audio. If I could change anything about this project it would be all of us recording the chorus together. It would have been better to each record individually and then pan our audio during the chorus for a more full sound. I’m really proud of my group and the lyrics that we, mostly Athena, came up with.