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The Chosen Two: Party Police

For the two days in which we had decided to split up on the suggestion of our teacher, we all had already considered different songs for ourselves. But after further discussion when we decided to get back together, we seemed to be having doubts about our previous song and so, we chose Party Police by Alvvays as the song for our music video. Hira suggested a different song by Alvvays and from there we explored this avenue even further until we came across Party Police, which we all felt we could work with really well. 

The song was released in 2014, as a track in the artist's self-titled album "Alvvays" and is alternative/indie, very much in line with the artist's overall discography. 

Here's me writing down the songs we shortlisted (there were a lot more than this).


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