Identifying Our Song Choice "Oh No"

From looking at different Genres and our overall answers from our carried out Questionnaire, we as a group have decided to stick with our initial Genre idea of Indie-Pop. As we researched certain Indie-Pop bands, we decided to email a number of them, asking permission for the use of one of their songs.

One of these was the artist 'Marina and the Diamonds'. We chose this artist as one of the Indie-Pop acts to email as we believe she has a different take on the Genre, and does not shy away from being different. As well as this we all believed that we could come up with some interesting ideas to incorporate with one of her songs. When emailing, we chose the certain song 'Oh No' as it was her newest release and we considered the lyrics to be able to carry out an interesting narrative in a video.

Here is a copy of the email we sent to 'Marina and the Diamonds' record label 679 Recordings, which is a label owned by Warner Music Group.


Hello Sam,


As long as it is just for your use and not for any commercial gain then that's fine.

Good luck with your course work!

Alex // 679

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From: Sam McMahon

Sent: 09 October 2010 17:30

To: Bean, Alex

Subject: Copyright Permission

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am Sam McMahon aged 18, and I am studying Media at St Mary’s College Blackburn. For my A Level coursework the task is to produce a creative and original music video from the song of your choice, I feel I need an inspiring and influential song to complete this coursework to the best of my ability. Therefore I would be extremely grateful if I was given the permission to use Marina and the Diamonds’ single ‘OH NO!’. This song will be used for educational purposes only, to aid me in my A Level Media coursework.

Yours faithfully,

Sam McMahon

Here is a sample of the song 'Oh No' by 'Marina and the Diamonds' that we intend to use for our Music Video Project.