Crooke Minds Analysis
In this age, music is more popular each day. Countless songs are written every moment, some are supposed to make you feel happy, sad or angry. Songs are really good when it comes to making people feel certain emotions. But sometimes, people can relate to songs because they know exactly what it is about. Whether it´s love, despair or even revolution. Songs about revolution are widely popular because of the widespread anarchism, but also because many people live in horrible conditions and need something to hold on to. One of the songs like these is Crooke Minds by Billy Talent, talking about revolution on an unnamed nation.
The lyrics of the song describe the situation of people taking a stand against their leaders oppressing and despising them. …show more content…
We are also able to take a closer look at the nature and feelings of the leaders. They are said to possess bloodshot eyes, which is a term for red eyes. Red symbolized anger and wrath (Bourn, 2011), that means the leaders weren´t happy when they were close to their ends. In the story of the song, this is the last part of the fight where the leaders are taken down and the kids tore their crown down. Music in this part is more aggressive than before and faster. However, this part only contains both of the choruses repeated twice, emphasising the message they tell and the first stanza of the song and reminding us power is not so stable and can vanish anytime. Also, the aftermath of the fight is mentioned in this part, talking about glorifying the dead and using the power the leaders abused to change the world to a better place. But there is something more interesting about this part because some parts of the choruses are slightly changed. First time we hear the second chorus, it ends with words “Nothing´s left for you and I” but the second time we hear it, it says “Nothing´s left till something dies” possibly referencing the first chorus and pointing us towards the fact that even common people are actually the same as the oppressors, they also only care about themselves and didn´t think about others and thus they were one of the crooked minds all time
The lyrics of the song describe the situation of people taking a stand against their leaders oppressing and despising them. …show more content…
We are also able to take a closer look at the nature and feelings of the leaders. They are said to possess bloodshot eyes, which is a term for red eyes. Red symbolized anger and wrath (Bourn, 2011), that means the leaders weren´t happy when they were close to their ends. In the story of the song, this is the last part of the fight where the leaders are taken down and the kids tore their crown down. Music in this part is more aggressive than before and faster. However, this part only contains both of the choruses repeated twice, emphasising the message they tell and the first stanza of the song and reminding us power is not so stable and can vanish anytime. Also, the aftermath of the fight is mentioned in this part, talking about glorifying the dead and using the power the leaders abused to change the world to a better place. But there is something more interesting about this part because some parts of the choruses are slightly changed. First time we hear the second chorus, it ends with words “Nothing´s left for you and I” but the second time we hear it, it says “Nothing´s left till something dies” possibly referencing the first chorus and pointing us towards the fact that even common people are actually the same as the oppressors, they also only care about themselves and didn´t think about others and thus they were one of the crooked minds all time