Music Competition
The first event of Day 2 of Resonance 2015 was an exhilarating music competition that resonated the issues revolving around masculinity in the most melodious way. Students were required to perform a song or compose their own melody to illustrate the different personas of man. Music was the perfect means to complete this task as it speaks of a person’s inner most thoughts and emotions and instills in the listeners a sense of empathy and understanding.
First up was The Sri Ram School, Noida who, at a short notice combined two songs; ‘Superheroes’ by the Script and ‘Let Her Go’ by Passenger. Superheroes is a beautiful song that describes how the pressure on men compels them to keep to themselves and this frustration and pain turns to grievous anger and power.
The next performance was by Step by Step who sung their own composition ‘I’m a Man’ where all the representations of man were put into one melody.
Heritage School also performed their own composition ‘I Wanna Bleed’ by Akarshit Arora. This song is about how men lose out on the simple things in life, for instance, spending time with family and later, he’s just left lamenting about the lost time. He says that it is the pressure of ‘manly’ responsibilities that steals away precious time from them and it is lost doing things that men are compelled to.
Next, DPS Ghaziabad shared their views through a self-made composition which expresses how men are not the only offenders and cannot be judged by the image that society has created of them; as the offenders of women. They say that men are also victimized and not much attention is paid towards the same.
Shiv Nadar’s song tread along the same lines as Heritage school; how a man cannot be open up because he has to appear as a tough man.
Ria Prakash, a student of Vasant Valley based her song on a conversation about men and masculinity, the name of their song was ‘The M Word’. In stark contrast, their song questioned why men don’t open up and “what are they afraid of.” But the song also suggested that society is opening up to a new perspective of masculinity when they say “you can be all that you want”.
Finally, Pathways School Noida performed the song ‘The Man I Want to be’ by Chris Young in which a couple ends its ties because the woman wants her partner to be a different man, a good man.
With this, the music competition came to an end. It was sonorous of the theme of masculinity and expressed the final message with just the right amount of ring.
Resonance 2015 