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Analysis Of When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening To Van Morrison
The “Yarragh” in Visions “Yarragh” is a term that describes uniqueness or strangeness of a song or voice of a singer. As in Greil Marcus book “When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening To Van Morrison, he describes his thoughts of what Van Morrisons word “Yarragh” is. Van Morrison is an Irish singer who is very unique. “You may need a sense of the song as a thing in itself ” to be able to get a deeper understanding of the singers lyrics you must be able to also and get a feel of the beat of a song and just about everything else about a song. (8). Marcus, then describes “ what he lacked in glamour he made up stangness” In 2010, Claire Elise Boucher also known by her …show more content…

The song starts off with a slow beat then gradually goes faster and goes into an entertaining beat. With different beats from a keyboard to beats that sound like wind chimes, you wouldn’t have expected this enthusiastic song to be giving a message about a sexual assault. In the song “Oblivion” Grimes sings, “And never walk about, after dark it's my point of view. Cause someone could break your neck” which describes the night she was assaulted. As most artists do,Grimes is sending out a message about being cautious when one is out late at night and could possibly experience her assault if a person is not careful with their surroundings. Grimes then sings “And now it's gonna be tough for me But I will wait forever” referring that moving on from her situation is going to be difficult but she will take all the time she needs to heal mentally from her assault. This is song is very powerful in the way Grimes presents her experience. She puts her own negative experience into a positive song for fans, which is beat to make a person want to dance and enjoy the song. But if you really pay attention to the lyrics you’ll realize the lyrics are opposite from what the beat depicts

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