Sell Out (Featuring Derek Baker)

Starting with a low acoustic sound rather than Aaron’s signature upbeat style, the vocals of the song are mainly featuring Derek Baker who begins raping in a slow tone, as the hip-hop drum beat starts (focusing on the use of snare drum and bass drum). As the song gets to the chorus Aaron’s vocals start in a rougher tone than normal (with an echoed effect used), as Derek continues to rap in the background "Sell out, sell out, the chant isn't that clear, I'm 100% sure, that i've been misread my dear!" . The musical structure only changes between the chorus and the verses, with the chorus containing a slightly higher sounding guitar, before changing back to the lower guitar sounds, and at the end of the song when a low held bass sound is used as Aaron sings over the top. The lyrics of the song are about claims of Aaron selling out when he get signed and changing in how he is, but he counter argues this within the song.

Aaron: I wrote this song after releasing the Getting Out EP, after a fan tweeted me calling me a sell out for changing my style slightly or something like that, and that I was becoming 'mainstream'. In all honesty I'd hardly call myself a sell out, but still, it seems that you win some fans, you loose others.

Don’t Say That I Don’t Know You (When You Don’t Know Me)

Starting with a swift sounding violin, with a slight echo following it, the song opens in a manner which would not suit a musican of his age, a mature sound is already created. Aaron's vocals start a fairly low tone compared to Aaron's ordinary option of a high singing voice, it is at this point that the consistant use of a kick drum is used to keep the beat of the song up until the chorus, during this time the violin also changes slightly to keep in touch with Aaron's passionate lyrics. During the chorus, there is a sample of church bells heard in the background along with a brief drum roll whilst the violins continue to play, a brief bass guitar note is repeated in the background during the chorus as well. The main lyrics of the chorus are "Although it's hard to say goodbye, I can safely say that I no-longer know why, for reasons that I can't explain, you'll take your time and ignore the pain." The song then repeats the verse format and chorus format and then ends with the introduction being edited to sound like a broken radio message, as the song finishes.

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Aaron: I've gotta admit that this song was heavily influenced by some of Coldplay's songs from Viva La Vida, especially with the music. But then again, I do love using a variety of instruments, and the violin seemed to match the mood that I wanted to be given from the lyrics, which are again about loss and attempting to deal with a loved one leaving my life, but it's more about death than a failed relationship. Overall I'd say that this is one of my personal favourite songs from the album, but that's just because it's the most mature sounding one in my opinion.

Photoshop Is A Girl's Best Friend

A high, and simple keyboard note is held in the opening moments of the song, before progressing into a gradually more bassy keyboard note, whilst a clapping effect is used to keep the beat as Aaron sings slowly, with held notes matching the repeativeness of the keyboard loop in the openning verse.A the verse reaches the end, there is a build up in the tempo of the song, with the drums now encorperating a snare drum, along with a symbol crashing before the start of the chorus, and another keyboard note, sounding more like the high one opening the song is used over the top, Aaron's vocals repeat the line "you can't fake beauty like she can" before the drums become a standard hip-hop set up, but have the clapping effect replacing the snare drum, as the keyboards build faster and a more bassy effect, before following the same format for the remaining verse/chorus strucutre. Before the final repition of the chorus, there is a lul in the song, in which the "you can't fake beauty" line is spoken by Aaron without any music, before the chorus picks up again, and then the song suddenly ends. Lyrically the song is another song which is written about girls who believe that their online image is the only thing that is important to them, and can be seen as being aimed at the "Myspace generation".

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Aaron: This song lyrically is me taking another stab at 'scene kids' and all the former myspace kids, along with those who fake beauty on the internet by over editing pictures of themselves. I must have been in a mood with someone on Facebook for doing it or something when I wrote this, but I'm sticking with what I say. Don't fake beauty, it's less attractive. I closed the song on this note just because the music is different, and is a style which I've been experimenting more with. It could become a dominant part of the music that I plan to make in the future, so I wanted it to close the album as a sort of preview into a style I'm considering progressing into.