Comparative Essay-Music
Longing for Love:
A Comparative Essay
Jack Ettlinger
ENG4U1
Ms. Palka
July 18, 2010.
Longing For Love
A Comparative Essay By Jack Ettlinger
In the song I Just Haven’t Met You Yet (IJHMYY) written and composed by Michael Buble, themes such as love, optimism, and loneliness are all are evident. These themes are also found in the song Love Song For No One (LSFNO), written and composed by John Mayer, but optimism is replaced by pessimism. Both of these songs are about a man longing for love; however, in the first, the man is optimistic and hopeful, while in the second he is getting anxious and a little doubtful. The way that the themes are portrayed are both similar and different in that they are about love, optimism/pessimism and loneliness, but each song has differences on how the themes are viewed.
In I Just Haven’t Met You Yet the theme of love is evident, of course, and the song focuses around it. Just by reading the lyrics you get a warm fuzzy feeling, and that is what love is supposed to bring. But what is love really? Is it one specific thing? Or is it just a nebulous word that is used to describe the feeling two people get when they think about each other or spend time together? Love is an enigma by it’s very nature; each and every person has his or her own opinion of what it is, and it may mean different things to each, but certainly, love is what Michael Buble is feeling and discussing in his song. If everyone interprets love differently than it is possible to also make someone angry or upset, as it does in Love Song For No One.
In Love Song For No One love is embodied in a very different way than the way that Buble portrayed it. With Mayer’s song, he chose to go down the route that many people do when love is not going their way - the route to sadness, frustration and impatience. The song focuses around these feelings. Even just the title captures what the song’s overall feeling is. This guy is simply getting tired of waiting and starting to
A Comparative Essay
Jack Ettlinger
ENG4U1
Ms. Palka
July 18, 2010.
Longing For Love
A Comparative Essay By Jack Ettlinger
In the song I Just Haven’t Met You Yet (IJHMYY) written and composed by Michael Buble, themes such as love, optimism, and loneliness are all are evident. These themes are also found in the song Love Song For No One (LSFNO), written and composed by John Mayer, but optimism is replaced by pessimism. Both of these songs are about a man longing for love; however, in the first, the man is optimistic and hopeful, while in the second he is getting anxious and a little doubtful. The way that the themes are portrayed are both similar and different in that they are about love, optimism/pessimism and loneliness, but each song has differences on how the themes are viewed.
In I Just Haven’t Met You Yet the theme of love is evident, of course, and the song focuses around it. Just by reading the lyrics you get a warm fuzzy feeling, and that is what love is supposed to bring. But what is love really? Is it one specific thing? Or is it just a nebulous word that is used to describe the feeling two people get when they think about each other or spend time together? Love is an enigma by it’s very nature; each and every person has his or her own opinion of what it is, and it may mean different things to each, but certainly, love is what Michael Buble is feeling and discussing in his song. If everyone interprets love differently than it is possible to also make someone angry or upset, as it does in Love Song For No One.
In Love Song For No One love is embodied in a very different way than the way that Buble portrayed it. With Mayer’s song, he chose to go down the route that many people do when love is not going their way - the route to sadness, frustration and impatience. The song focuses around these feelings. Even just the title captures what the song’s overall feeling is. This guy is simply getting tired of waiting and starting to