That makes the task of judging the songs difficult yet incredibly rewarding: an exercise in inquiry and collaboration, not unlike the creative work of the songwriters themselves. "Each year’s showcase provides a kind of time capsule, reflecting an amazing breadth of issues, songwriting styles, and approaches. “A unique aspect of this contest is that it is open-themed: Students write about the topics that speak to them, whether from personal, lived experience or from their empathy for the situations and struggles of others," Simos continued. “The influence of the annual showcases, the recognition provided by the awards, and steady faculty support-such as incorporating projects into classes for feedback and discussion-has helped to increase the quality, depth, and diversity of each year’s roster of songs.” Each year, themes of social change and social justice speak more strongly to our student songwriters,” said Mark Simos, Songs for Social Change faculty facilitator. “I’ve been involved with the contest since its beginnings in 2008. The contest thus provides over $10,000 to nearly 30 student songwriters through a detailed adjudication process involving a team of volunteer faculty judges drawn from across the college who listen to over 100 entries submitted each year. He created an endowed fund to increase the top awards to $1,500 for the first-place song, $1,250 for second place, and $1,000 for third place, as well as a $500 award for songs performed in the showcase and a $200 award for songs selected for inclusion in the SoundCloud playlist. Block-Schwenk has donated more than $175,000 to the contest-the largest financial donation Berklee has received from a current faculty member. The Songs for Social Change contest, originally established by a gift from the Luongo family, has received endowed funding from Kevin Block-Schwenk, associate professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences Department. Verse 1 I feel unhappy, I feel so sad I've lost the best friend that I ever had She was my woman, I loved her so But it's too late now, I've let her go Chorus I'm going through changes I'm. We wrote this song to encourage the public to reflect on how society treats the homeless population and how they can make a difference.” “It was the middle of the day and many people were passing through, but no one stopped to help him. “‘James’ was inspired by an experience I had in Symphony Community Park in Boston, where I witnessed a homeless man having a medical emergency,” she said. Perkins-Zalik’s song “James” focuses on bystander ignorance of the homeless population.
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2 The track is a partially acoustic alternative rock song that has been compared to pop music from. Her cowriter Zachary Simon is a film scoring major from Woodbridge, Connecticut. Performed in the key of G Major and played at 97 beats per minute, 1 'Change' was written by Pale Waves's guitarist and lyricist, Heather Baron-Gracie along with Sam de Jong it was produced by Rich Costey, with de Jong serving as co-producer.
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Perkins-Zalik, this year's third-place winner, is a professional music major from Vancouver, Canada. The 'Truth Hurts' singer has updated and released a new version of her song 'Grrrls' after receiving backlash over a lyric in the original version that fans said was considered an 'ableist slur. Image by Emily Whiting Michelle Perkins-Zalik (with Cowriter Zachary Simon), Third Place