lyrics project

No Shadow
Artist: Oasis
Song: Cast no shadow
Album: (What’s the story) Morning glory
Model: Jade Lyon
Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire UK

This is the only lyric I’ve changed slightly to suit my own imagery. I always saw the subject as female and therefore changed the ‘he’ to a ‘she’. It’s about Liam Gallagher’s good friend, The Verve frontman, Richard Ashcroft. He said that when he first played it to him, Ashcroft nearly burst into tears.

1995, when the album was released was a time when Britpop and my life were going strong. I loved this whole album as I did pretty much everything the band produced at the time. A vampire has no reflection or shadow but the lines of the song point more to me about the ever evasive ‘they’. The chorus “as they took his soul they stole his pride” tells me about the faceless society, the corporates, the governments, the institutions that force us to conform and be ‘normal’. If we’re different, we’re dealt with.

The individual at the centre of this song is different and special and is in danger of having the life sucked out of him/her. It happens to us all but for some, it’s harder to deal with.

I tried and experimented with the shot a few times, tried different angles and believe shadows are amazing things. They give any object form, life and grounding. They inform us completely and yet they go largely unnoticed. They hide in complete view.

Look at the picture hard enough and Jade looks like she’s simply been ‘stuck in’ afterwards from a different shot. She hasn’t. All that’s happened in the processing is her shadow was removed. Without it she doesn’t look like she was there. It’s the power of shadows and ultimately light and our understanding of it.

No Shadow
Artist: Oasis
Song: Cast no shadow
Album: (What’s the story) Morning glory
Model: Jade Lyon
Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire UK

This is the only lyric I’ve changed slightly to suit my own imagery. I always saw the subject as female and therefore changed the ‘he’ to a ‘she’. It’s about Liam Gallagher’s good friend, The Verve frontman, Richard Ashcroft. He said that when he first played it to him, Ashcroft nearly burst into tears.

1995, when the album was released was a time when Britpop and my life were going strong. I loved this whole album as I did pretty much everything the band produced at the time. A vampire has no reflection or shadow but the lines of the song point more to me about the ever evasive ‘they’. The chorus “as they took his soul they stole his pride” tells me about the faceless society, the corporates, the governments, the institutions that force us to conform and be ‘normal’. If we’re different, we’re dealt with.

The individual at the centre of this song is different and special and is in danger of having the life sucked out of him/her. It happens to us all but for some, it’s harder to deal with.

I tried and experimented with the shot a few times, tried different angles and believe shadows are amazing things. They give any object form, life and grounding. They inform us completely and yet they go largely unnoticed. They hide in complete view.

Look at the picture hard enough and Jade looks like she’s simply been ‘stuck in’ afterwards from a different shot. She hasn’t. All that’s happened in the processing is her shadow was removed. Without it she doesn’t look like she was there. It’s the power of shadows and ultimately light and our understanding of it.