Chained To The Rhythm By Katy Perry

Katy Perry’s song lyrics for “Chained To The Rhythm”(1) displays how society has been placed in a rhythm of life doing specific things at specific times. I would recommend this to year 12s as it portrays the ideas that we live our lives according to stereotypes and how we have been desensitized to the horrors that happen around us(2).

The first idea that the lyrics of “Chained To The Rhythm”(3) reveals is that we live our lives according to stereotypes. A stereotype is an idea that takes a quality of a specific race or nationality and transforms it into a universal view of said nation or race. The statement “Trapped in our white picket fence” directly connects to the idea of an all american suburb which is a stereotype that film and television created to portray the the look of a perfect american family and hide the imperfections that happens behind closed doors(4). The white picket fence was a large part of 1950s america it was symbolic of the white middle class, people would look at these houses and think perfection, but perfection doesn't exist, lives for the white middle class would have had problems that they shut behind there fancy houses and gardens. The fact that we even have stereotypes is horrible because it can class a person in a negative way but what makes it
This relates to year 12s as teenagers nowadays will have the newest technologies, phones, cars and