Analyzing Drake's Song 'Unthinkable'

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What if Juliet from William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” were a song? Her lustful, hormonal, and her loyal ways, makes her story her story so interesting. Wondering where her amazing, glowing personality would take her. She would have no choice but to be “Unthinkable” by Alicia Keys featuring Drake. It highlights how her romance with Romeo goes on a weird roller coaster that brings out her sentimental side. The artists in the song “Unthinkable”, Drake and Alicia Keys are both known for their romantic, heartbreaking songs. Drake is a hip-hop and R&B artist who is known for his soft melody and emotional lyrics that captures how his love life is going. On the other hand, Alicia Keys is a R&B, pop, and soul singing artist that sings about …show more content…
In the play act 3 scene 2 where she talks about how she wishes everyone love and the best. She says “ That all the world will be in love with night... O, I have bought the mansion of a love,”. She expresses how love feels, and she's the one that owns those feelings for Romeo. In the song Drakes sings about the how difficult it is to fall in love and how he can’t see love in his near future with the right one. “… And i’m scared too because, I’m in the same boat, Good women are rare too, none of them have come close”. They both are hormonal and the feelings that Juliet expresses are the same about love and the fact that she found Romeo makes her relieved that she found the right one and it was not Paris. Just like in the where Drake referees a bunch of women to as not being the right …show more content…
She first talks about how she can’t marry Paris because she's already married, “ O God! O nurse, how shall this be prevented? My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven; How shall that faith return again to the earth, unless that husband sent it from heaven, By leaving earth? Comfort me, counsel me!”( Act 3, Scene 5). In the song “Unthinkable” Alicia sings about being in a skeptical situation in regards to the relationship she is in and how she will always stick by his side and that she will always be loyal to their relationship. This part of the song captures the loyal side of Juliet. “Moment of honesty, someone’s gotta take the lead tonight, whose it gonna be? I’m gonna sit right here and tell you all that comes to me if you have something to say you should say it right now (Drake: You should say it right now)”. Juliet relates to this because she stays loyal to the relationship she has with Romeo even though it was basically over and it's hard to be

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