Girl on Fire Alicia Keys featuring Nicki Minaj

Girl on Fire (Alicia Keys, featuring Nicki Minaj) • Write the Title: Contemporary Pop in your book • Subtitle: Girl on Fire (Alicia Keys, featuring Nicki Minaj) • Listen to the track on each slide and complete the description of what you hear. • If you are not sure what to put, look at the notes section below the slide afterwards.

• This version of the song begins with a _ _ _ of something that sounds like a 40 s advert, followed by Nicki Minaj, _ _ _ _ with only the _ _ _ as accompaniment. • When Alicia Keys starts singing, she is unaccompanied (also called _ _ _ _ _ ) and there is a lot of _ _ on her voice, which is best heard on the word “fire”. • The drumming sounds the same throughout – a clue that it is not a real drummer. It is a _ _ _ from “The Big Beat” by Billy Squier, and it is _ _ _. • The loudest part of the kit is the _ _ _ drum, played on beats _ and _, giving a strong backbeat. • The only instruments that accompany the singer are the drums and _____ • The singer is _ _ _ _.

• In the second verse (“Looks like a girl but she’s a flame”), the singer has a _ _ _ _ on the words “flame” and “name”. • This shows that the song is influenced by g_ _ _ and s _ _ _. • At the first “Oh-oh-oh” riff, the _ _ _ drops out of the accompaniment. • Before the chorus (“this girl is on fire”), there is a _ _ _ in the accompaniment. • The second chorus has the addition of _ _ _ and a • _ _ _ _ singer.

• After the second chorus, there is a _ _ _ _. • After that, the _ _ _ _ from the opening returns. • The end of the song doesn’t feel finished, because it ends on chord _ (choose between IV, V and vi: chord IV will let you hum the tonic and chord V won’t; chord vi is a secondary chord and is therefore minor) • Music technology been used to create this song in the following ways: