Emeli Sande - Heaven: A Case Study on Politics, Economy, Social Issues, and Cultural Trends in the UK (Analysis)

1. Emeli Sande – Heaven (case study)

2. Politics The 2010 campaign brought a novelty to the British general election campaign—televised debates between the leaders of the three main parties: Brown of Labour, Cameron of the Conservatives, and Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats. A coalition government was formed. The student riots were also caused on November the 10th in 1010 due to the increase in uni fees.

3. economy UK Economy 2010. 2010 will be a difficult year for the UK economy. After the deepest recession since the 1930s, the outlook is for a sluggish recovery. Though recovery is welcome, it still leaves the problem of spare capacity, high unemployment and record levels of peacetime government borrowing.

4. Socially The 2011 England riots, more widely known as the London Riots were a series of riots between 6 and 11 August 2011, when thousands of people rioted in cities and towns across England, saw looting, arson, and mass deployment of police, and resulted in the deaths of five people. It was started by the shootin mark duggan by the police.

5. culturally Mainstream recognition of grime and uk street music becoming more of a common form of music with artists such as tinie tempeh and dizzie rascal winning brit awards.

7. Emile sande background Born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear and raised in Alford, Aberdeenshire by an English mother and Zambian father, Sande rose to prominence after being a featured artist on the 2009 Chipmunk track "Diamond Rings". It was their first top 10 single on the UK Singles Chart. Labels‎: ‎Virgin‎; ‎Virgin EMI‎; ‎Capitol Genres‎: ‎R&B‎; ‎soul‎; ‎gospel Songs that she has coalbed on

8. Screenshots from music videos

9. Emile sande – heaven, how is it different from the London riots

10. Background to the song The song is a mixture of pacey house beats, mellow strings and horn sections One critic said the song was ticking all the good boxes in modern urban music In the music video there are scenes of sande singing to the sky, standing outside of a cathedral and many statues of mary are seen The single was made to preoder several weeks before it was released on itunes THE VIDEO WAS SHOT IN Bethnal Green, East London where sande lives and shot by Jake Nava who's has worked with other artist such as Beyonce, Alicia keys and Kanye west

11. Analysis of heaven Repition of heaven, a higher place with desire of being there. Flashing lights has conotations of heaven and god as well as drugs, so does trying to keep my heartbeat Presure of being a good person and how only bag things are noticed From Emelisande’s view- Its harder to be good in this day and age with so many influences and avenues, have to keep your heart clean