What Are Words show "Stolthetsprisen", where the organisation awarded a prize to a disabled person for helping other people in the same situation to improve their way of living. Medina, as well as other artists performed at the show. Medina also performed the song during the President's Star Charity show in Singapore on 31 July 2011 to raise funds for the handicapped. In the wake of the 2011 Norway terrorist attacks, Medina was contacted by the family of Monica Iselin Didriksen, a victim of the massacre whose favorite song was "What Are Words," and was subsequently invited to Norway to sing at her
Word painting the chord progression, a kind of ambiguous oscillation between moods. Justin Timberlake's song "What Goes Around" is another popular example of text painting. The lyrics descend an octave and then return to the upper octave, as though it was going in around in a circle. In the chorus of "Up Where We Belong", the melody rises during the words "Love lift us up". In Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire", there is an inverse word painting where 'down, down, down' is sung to the notes rising, and 'higher' is sung dropping from a higher to a lower note. Another inverse happens