Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy Research

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy Research

Definitions:

Street Culture - A primary issue for urban sociologists is the disproportionate poverty in ghettos, defined as parts of American cities that are composed of mostly poor African Americans.

Trip-Hop - a style of dance music, usually slow in tempo, that combines elements of hip-hop and dub reggae with softer, more ambient sounds.

Punk - a loud, fast-moving, and aggressive form of rock music, popular in the late 1970's.

Post-Punk - denoting a style of rock music inspired by punk but less aggressive in performance and musically more experimental.

Unfinished Symphony:

The song by Massive Attack, Unfinished Symphony is a trip-hop song/punk, it only reached 13th in the UK charts and it was released on 11th of February 1991. The song was part of an album called Blue Lines and it featured songs like, One love and Day dreaming. The breakout song of the album was Unfinished Symphony. It was filmed in LA, USA and is approximately 5:20 seconds. Written By: Grant Marshall, Andrew Vowles, Robert Del Naja, Jonathan Sharp and Shara Nelson. Produced By: Grant Marshall, Andrew Vowles, Robert Del Naja and Jonathan Sharp.

Massive Attack Members -

• Robert Del Naja - 52
• Grant Marshall - 57
• Andrew Vowles - 49
• Stephanie Dosen - 44

In the massive attack video of unfinished it starts off with a typical american style gang and then it goes across the street over to show how normal life is. After it has finished moving the camera side to side it moves onto walk in front of the lead singer in the song Shara Nelson and continues to follow her throughout the music video. The other band members like Daddy G feature through out the video making little cameos. But the video is just showing normal life in america. The whole of the video was taken with one straight shot. The video ends with Shara Nelson walking round the corner away from camera shot.