Sandcastles
In April of 2016, the visual album, Lemonade, took the internet by storm. After America’s most influential singer opened up about what was once kept as personal, the reactions and underlining messages were unforgettable. Being able to dissect the art of making lemonade into a personal diaspora to cultivate and strengthen others into learning the art of the grieving process was goal of the album. Contrary to popular beliefs, Beyoncé wanted the outside world to see that she was human and could be vulnerable like everyone else. The entire album was a masterpiece filled with Black girl magic and truth about life. However, the song that captured the attention of many was entitled, “Sandcastles.” After going through this course, the …show more content…
The denotation aspect of this portion of the song would include the fact that it is a large room and the walls are painted a darken color. It would also showcase other basics such as a women sitting on a pillow playing the piano with headphones on her head. Even as basic as the setup may be, the idea of what is really being perpetrated becomes mind-blowing thanks to connotation. In the realm of connotation, it’s more than just a large room. This is representing the state of what’s going on inside of her head. As big as the room is, one could argue that it is empty. The darken walls are representing the darken place in her life. Then we see the illusion of fogginess. One might interpret this in a number of ways such as although she’s ready to forgive, it’s cloudy in her mind and she’s unsure of how to obtain it. One may also add that it’s a depressing time. With depression comes mood swings causing emotions to get the best of an individual. We simply see signs – signs of brokenness. To add to this interpretation, the score of music is an addition to this belief. There are major chords within the song as well as minor and augmented. The contrast between major and minor chords is equivalent to happy or sad and bright and dark. She begins to sing the lyrics and we’re able to hear the cross between each moment of anger and forgiveness as it equates to connotative
In April of 2016, the visual album, Lemonade, took the internet by storm. After America’s most influential singer opened up about what was once kept as personal, the reactions and underlining messages were unforgettable. Being able to dissect the art of making lemonade into a personal diaspora to cultivate and strengthen others into learning the art of the grieving process was goal of the album. Contrary to popular beliefs, Beyoncé wanted the outside world to see that she was human and could be vulnerable like everyone else. The entire album was a masterpiece filled with Black girl magic and truth about life. However, the song that captured the attention of many was entitled, “Sandcastles.” After going through this course, the …show more content…
The denotation aspect of this portion of the song would include the fact that it is a large room and the walls are painted a darken color. It would also showcase other basics such as a women sitting on a pillow playing the piano with headphones on her head. Even as basic as the setup may be, the idea of what is really being perpetrated becomes mind-blowing thanks to connotation. In the realm of connotation, it’s more than just a large room. This is representing the state of what’s going on inside of her head. As big as the room is, one could argue that it is empty. The darken walls are representing the darken place in her life. Then we see the illusion of fogginess. One might interpret this in a number of ways such as although she’s ready to forgive, it’s cloudy in her mind and she’s unsure of how to obtain it. One may also add that it’s a depressing time. With depression comes mood swings causing emotions to get the best of an individual. We simply see signs – signs of brokenness. To add to this interpretation, the score of music is an addition to this belief. There are major chords within the song as well as minor and augmented. The contrast between major and minor chords is equivalent to happy or sad and bright and dark. She begins to sing the lyrics and we’re able to hear the cross between each moment of anger and forgiveness as it equates to connotative