For my final audio assignment of the week, I decided to continue exploring music in female secret agent stories by completing the Old Vs. New assignment, in which we are to combine an old song with a newer cover of the same song and highlight the differences between the two.

Continuing with creating assignments that we can possible discuss on our radio shows, I decided to make the focus of my Old vs. New mashup Kim Possible!

Kim Possible is a secret agent classic for many, and she is one awesome female secret agent! News broke about a couple of months ago that they were creating a reboot of the Kim Possible series with live actors.

The Kim Possible theme song is just as classic as the actual show itself, so I thought it would be really interesting to go back and fourth between the old song and the new song to see any differences between the two and if the new Kim Possible is going to be just as strong and tough as the old Kim Possible.

Creating my old vs. new song required me to use Audacity. Audacity was first introduced to me about two weeks ago, and while I have never heard of or used the Software before this class, it is quickly becoming a favorite of mine! To start of I downloaded both the old and new Kim Possible theme song. My old vs. new mashup starts with a layered track of both the old and the new song singing the same words as the same time. The song then breaks apart to feature solely the new song, which then flows into solely the old song.

Hearing both the old and new song side by side, there are definitely some similarities and differences between the tow. For the most part, the lyrics used in both songs are the same. the main differences between the old and new song appear to be the change in overall pitch and tone, switching to a much higher tone than the original.

I am interested to see however what the change in the song between the old and the new hints at regarding the story of Kim Possible? Kim Possible is a great example of a female secret agent because she is someone that is always forefront in the action and has a male sidekick instead of being the sidekick as a female. I think music tells us a lot about what to expect from a story, and I am wondering if the some of the changes in the new song from the old song contribute to the classic view of Kim Possible or if maybe it diminishes it?

It’s questions like these that my group and I will look to explore and answer on our radio show, which I am excited to get started on!