Green Day Minority - Power
English Assignment – Written Text
Green Day - minority
The Song ‘Minority’ is written and performed by Green Day which consists of four band members, Billie Joe Armstrong (Lead singer/Guitar), Mike Dirnt (Bass/Backup vocals), Tre Cool (Drums) and Jason White (Backup guitar/backup vocals). It was released on the album ‘Warning’ from the record label ‘Reprise Records’ on October 3rd 2000.
Minority is all about standing up for what you believe in and not letting people push you around or tell you what to do. This is emphasised in the opening lyrics saying “I want to be the minority. I don’t need your authority. Down with the moral majority. ‘Cause I want to be the minority.” These lyrics are the chorus to the song and repeat four times to really get the point across. Already in the opening lines you can feel the power behind the lyrics and can tell that they want to stand out and not blend in with the crowd.
The verses in between the chorus’ are all about being yourself and saying who cares what everyone else does just be yourself. Although the whole song is powerful three parts really stand out. The first is “Stepped out of the line, like a sheep runs from the herd.” This is basically saying that although it is uncommon for a sheep to run away from its herd or in this case people to leave behind what others are doing and do their own thing and stand up for what they believe in, it does happen and they are being that lone sheep and leaving ‘the herd’ to do whatever they want, whenever they want and you can too. The second is extremely meaningful, it goes “One light, one mind, flashing in the dark, blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts.” This means that while some people do stand up against everyone else a lot of the time they are quickly ‘blinded’ by what everyone else is doing and forget what they were standing up for in the first place. The final part that sticks out to me is “For crying out loud, she screams unto me. A free for all, fuck ‘em all,
Green Day - minority
The Song ‘Minority’ is written and performed by Green Day which consists of four band members, Billie Joe Armstrong (Lead singer/Guitar), Mike Dirnt (Bass/Backup vocals), Tre Cool (Drums) and Jason White (Backup guitar/backup vocals). It was released on the album ‘Warning’ from the record label ‘Reprise Records’ on October 3rd 2000.
Minority is all about standing up for what you believe in and not letting people push you around or tell you what to do. This is emphasised in the opening lyrics saying “I want to be the minority. I don’t need your authority. Down with the moral majority. ‘Cause I want to be the minority.” These lyrics are the chorus to the song and repeat four times to really get the point across. Already in the opening lines you can feel the power behind the lyrics and can tell that they want to stand out and not blend in with the crowd.
The verses in between the chorus’ are all about being yourself and saying who cares what everyone else does just be yourself. Although the whole song is powerful three parts really stand out. The first is “Stepped out of the line, like a sheep runs from the herd.” This is basically saying that although it is uncommon for a sheep to run away from its herd or in this case people to leave behind what others are doing and do their own thing and stand up for what they believe in, it does happen and they are being that lone sheep and leaving ‘the herd’ to do whatever they want, whenever they want and you can too. The second is extremely meaningful, it goes “One light, one mind, flashing in the dark, blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts.” This means that while some people do stand up against everyone else a lot of the time they are quickly ‘blinded’ by what everyone else is doing and forget what they were standing up for in the first place. The final part that sticks out to me is “For crying out loud, she screams unto me. A free for all, fuck ‘em all,