♪ Muse ♪ - Winner Announced!

• Be creative! If your sim is just standing there staring at the camera when the song is about devoted love, etc., you will not do well.
  
• This is not a regular modeling/fashion competition. Don’t worry about how fashionable the model is, don’t focus on editorial poses, etc. Go for poses that actually express your idea, and dress them appropriately for the situation.
  
• If you feel your image starts to become confusing and/or unrelated, provide an explanation as a just in case. The last thing you want to do is get the judges confused and not have an explanation to help guide them.
  
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Explanation

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I would first like to say I honestly love this song the message of mental health is powerful and strong and I clung on to that because I personally have people in my life that i'm very very close to,that deal with Bi-polar disorder and other mental help problems. I also, personally have diagnosed PTSD and i'm a strong advocate for mental health.

with that I clung on to these verses:

"What the he...ll's going on?!
Can someone tell me please?
Why I'm switching faster than the channels on TV?
I'm black, then I'm white,
No!
Something isn't right!
My enemy's invisible, I don't know how to fight!

The trembling fear is more than I can take,
When I'm up against
The echo in the mirror!"

In the image you can see a torn bi-sided Emily in the signal static I wanted to show the presence and pull of a manic behavior present in someone's mind by giving it a physical representation I also like the play on words of "switching channels on tv" as to being the changing mood and mindsets of individuals with Bi-polar disorder. also giving the idea of having an invisible enemy, which with mental health in some cases is yourself with is why their are two versions of Emily meshed into one giving the effect that the one she is in battle with is her own mind... and emily in the corner of the room represents her overall fearfulness of what is going on within herself internally.

the other verse represented is this one:
"I'm gonna burn my house down into an ugly black.
I'm gonna run away now and never look back.
I'm gonna burn my house down,
And never look back.
And never look back.
And never look back!"

people with Bi-polar disorder or even some other mental health issues such as Depression and even PTSD. They sometimes act in a destructive or violent way to themselves or to their surroundings. which is what is represented here with the fire, Emily in a Bi-polar envelopment/episode has set fire to her home and is crowded in the corner in fear of the situation and danger that she is not only mentally in, but now physically in, as well.

Explanation

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This Song to Me... Is totally about Mental Illness -- Bi Polar Mania and Or Schizophrenia Mania.... I Myself Have Bi Polar and Manic Episodes for Years and My Father with Schizophrenia so this really hit home... Talking about -- I am "Switching" faster than the channels on TV I'm Black I'm White NO! Something isn't Right! My "Enemy's Invisible" I don't know how to fight .... this is definitely to me Hallucinations during Mania Episodes...You can't think!!!!! Your brain goes so fast you can't keep up Literally!... Why Can't I see All the colours that you see? Meaning .. Why can't I just be "Normal" and be like everyone else!!!!! Paranoia!!!...Voices!!!.... The trembling fear is more than I can take --- Meaning --- When your in these Manic episodes its the scariest thing and you don't know how to come out of it it consumes you and you cannot control it ... You look at yourself and wonder what is happening which to me is the "Echo" In the Mirror ... You see nothing familiar....


With these Lyrics --- I'm gonna burn my house down into an ugly black.
I'm gonna run away now and never look back.

I'm gonna burn my house down,
And never look back.
And never look back.

In This Manic State You do "Irrational" things that doesn't make sense or not even logical in the LEAST! Such as the Song Says -- I'm gonna burn my house down and never look back!!!

Explanation

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Something about this song is very bipolar.

Trash is stuck in a depressing black and white world, but can see a colourful world through the mirror. But also on the other side of the mirror, is the manic echo of Trash.

The clock stopped ticking forever ago.
How long have I been up?
I don't know.
I can't get a grip, but I can't let go
There wasn't anything to hold on to though.

Up late at night, losing track of time.


Why can't I see?
Why can't I see?
All the colors that you see?
Please, can I be,
Please can I be,
Colorful and free?

Depression

What the he...ll's going on?!
Can someone tell me please?
Why I'm switching faster than the channels on TV?
I'm black, then I'm white,

Bipolar disorder

Something isn't right!
My enemy's invisible, I don't know how to fight!

The trembling fear is more than I can take,
When I'm up against
The echo in the mirror!
Echo!

The invisible enemy is mental health problems.
Alternating between manic episodes and depression.
The echo is yourself in the other state.

I'm gonna burn my house down into an ugly black.
I'm gonna run away now and never look back.

wanting to escape yourself and the situation in a violent and destructive way.