While at first glance Joyner Lucas’s “I’m Not Racist” may seem highly uncouth, it can truly offer refuge from the current political belligerence within America depending on how one interprets the song’s message. Political turmoil is running rampant in this day and age which has made it facile for many members of society to entrench themselves in their beliefs without considering another perspective, to turn an argument into a yelling match based on who can push their point hardest, and to generally be swept into the overwhelmingly dogmatic culture propagated by society. While “I’m Not Racist” isn’t a perfect song that can show bias at times, it is ultimately effective and does send a fairly positive message about understanding as well as acceptance…
Many influential songs have been produced recently and ¨Stressed Out¨ performed by 21 Pilots is one of them. It was written by Tyler Joseph to describe the pressure of adulthood as you reach that progression. The song sets a nostalgic tone in the introduction and lasts throughout the song as Joseph explains what the transfer to adulthood feels like. This is one of many songs out right now that explains a clear representation of problems teenagers face on a daily basis.…
With the fear sparked in many of us due to the recent presidential election as well as the many examples of how the government has failed and oppressed the minority of this country, “I Get Out” by Lauryn Hill seems to be a very significant, symbolic, and appropriate anthem. On her live album titled, “MTV Unplugged No. 2.0”, which was released on May 7th, 2002, Ms. Hill speaks on many social issues and personal realizations. On “I Get Out”, she analyzes the government and its relationship with herself, as well as other minorities. The song holds a sense of rebellion and seems to encourage self-liberation as she speaks of setting herself free of the struggles, prejudices, traditions, and oppression, amongst many things, brought into the lives…
This and the use of incorrect grammer, so common to rebellious teenagers, helps portray the message of the song, which is that today’s youth are prisoners of the older generations society, which alienate the younger generation and instead of looking for support and comfort, they thrive to rebel against these rules and law enforcement bodies, with the institution of society having no effect on the younger generation as they don’t comply and don’t want to reform. This creates the younger generations culture, arguing they are their own society.…
society has oppressed. The American dream plays as the imperfect promise of success; only if one accepts that the dream has a limit on its possibilities can he or she not be destroyed by anger towards the faulty promises. Troy Maxson, head of the Maxson…
The pity and boldness in the voice of the narrator in, “Let America Be America Again” is easily noticed by the reader of the poem. Hughes feel that African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and Asians all deserve the same opportunity to the live the American Dream just like the Caucasian-Americans but instead the minorities always get the “short end of the stick”, even though they put in the same or greater efforts. Lines…
to able to use thier own seed. They want the farmer to send them a money…
Langston Hughes's poem "Dream Deferred" is basically about what happens to dreams when they are put on hold. Hughes probably intended for the poem to focus on the dreams of African-Americans in particular because he originally entitled the poem "Harlem," which is the capital of African American life in the United States; however, it is just as easy to read the poem as being about dreams in general and what happens when people postpone making them come true. Ultimately, Hughes uses a carefully arranged series of images that also function as figures of speech to suggest that people should not delay their dreams because the more they postpone them, the more the dreams will change and the less likely they will come true.…
The content of the chorus represents pride in our unity as a nation and also our diverse multiculturalism. The chorus is really what brings the nationalistic emotion of which this song portrays. Here cultural differences are acknowledged, but they are submerged into national identity. Also, during…
The theme of this story is achieving the American Dream of riches and fame, it’s also about the need for love and support.…
This song speaks on the issues in the U.S. during the time of the Vietnam War, specifically towards the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement is present in this song when McGuire explains the issue on minorities struggling to gain their rights (blacks). He says, “...Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama- You may leave here for four days in space- But when you return its the same old place” (31-33). This shows the problems of how blacks were struggling during this era for equal rights, such as voting. Selma, as seen in the song, was the key town in which African Americans sought to gain their voting rights where they started a march to Selma in order to gain attention from president Lyndon Johnson (Yardley). The lines also explain how the issues of the civil rights movement were not easily changed when he talks about how if you leave for space for a few days, that the problems in America have still stayed the same. The efforts of the civil rights movement is also present in the song when McGuire says, “And marches alone can’t bring integration” which also alludes to the March on Washington, in 1963, where blacks petitioned for equal jobs and…
Milan Kundera once said “ Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” This song reminds me to always pick yourself up again after you fall. Why do we fall? So we can pick ourselves up again. If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely. When I would listen to the song, it would always remind me that there’s more to shoot for than just success. It reminds me that the difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s motivation. For an example, I think about goals and life as a bow and arrow. An arrow can only be shot by pulling the bow backwards. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means it’s going to launch you into something great. “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”…
A song is more than just music, song typically is usually based on a person’s emotions, problems, and their lives. Coasters is one of the examples that is based on a person's emotions. In this perspective, it’s Khalid’s emotion and how it affected him. He relates his emotions as a Coaster, always going all over the place and wanting it to stop. In the song “Coasters” by Khalid, he utilizes the literary devices of Imagery, symbolism, and diction to prove that having to get over someone is difficult situation that some people deal with, but it’s for the better for themselves.…
Since the theme of our paper is regret, one of the songs we chose is “Just a Dream” by Nelly. “I was at the top and now it's like I'm in the basement,” tells us the tone of the…
The argument of the song that Pink and Billy were showing through lyrics and music was addressing the political corruption that supposedly occurred in the Bush administration. Pink and Billy wrote many social issues during the song. The line “How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?” refers to all the mothers that lost their children in the war in Iraq. The feeling of a death of a child before a parent is horrible. Most of the fallen were and still are American…