Track Choice: Research and Planning

Track and artist choice

Track: Feel Invincible-Skillet

Band- Skillet is a Christian Rock band consisting of current members John Cooper (Vocals, Bass), his wife Korey Cooper (Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals), Seth Morrison (Guitars) and Jen Ledger (Drums, Vocals). The band was formed in 1996 beginning with current member John Cooper and Ken Soarts, the former guitarists of Urgent Cry. Both coming from different music genre backgrounds, they decided to go with the style of Christian Rock, since John Cooper is heavily religious.

The song 'Feel Invincible' was released on June 29th in 2016 as a single. It was then attached to Skillets 7th album titled 'Unleashed'. The song was at No. 3 on the U.S Christian Rock charts and was also used as the official theme song for the WWE 2016 Battleground pay-per-view event. The song sticks with the style and meaning of the band's earlier songs i.e promoting the christian faith and in the style of heavy metal.

Lyrics

A repeated line in the song is 'You make me feel Invincible', which can only mean, since the band members are heavily religious, that this is a reference to God and the 'strength he gives us'. The entirety of the song is consistent of the band members preaching their faith and is representing how they feel with religion and 'God on their side'.Not to mention the Jesus figure represented by lead vocalist John Cooper as he poses as if on a crucifix. Also seen in the lyrics are references to strength e.g 'You're my titanium' and 'You make me brave'

The music video itself, however, has a very dark tone to it. The matte black color scheme and the bizarre black costuming seen in the video conveys a very supernatural element. It has a pitch black feminist propaganda piece styled with a gas mask and fully black clothing and a pitch black plague doctor character seen throughout, along with many other imagery.

The video is also edited as a very fast paced and chaotic way, cutting back and forth between the performers in close ups and wide shots and also cutting back to the pitch black characters and even using silhouettes towards the end for a very stylistic look. It also follows the same color scheme as most of their previous music videos, using a teal blue and black scheme, as oppose to some of their other videos which use an orange or white scheme. They don't have any particular costume scheme in their music videos or an noticeable imagery. The ideology of their songs are mostly conveyed in the lyrics.