Man Tunes Essay
The Beatles were a Liverpool based rock band formed in the 1950s. Now over 60 years after their start, The Beatles are nearly unanimously known as the greatest musical group in at least the past 100 years. I selected their song “In My Life” as the subject of my Man Tunes assignment. The song “In My Life” was written by Lennon and McCartney for the 1965 album Rubber Soul. The song has a runtime of 2 minutes and 26 seconds and was placed 5th on Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of the top 100 Beatles songs of all time. Although the true meaning behind the song was never fully disclosed, a very popular theory maintains that it is a father’s ode to his son or daughter(for simplicity's sake, I'm going to refer to child as his daughter). After re-reading the lyrics there isn’t substantial proof of this, but it would make more sense than if it were a song about a lover. Humans as a species have a special bond to their offspring unlike many other animals as human children have a long juvenile period. This bond sometimes results in the undying love and commitment from parents to their offspring, which is what I believe is being demonstrated in this song.
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Paternal confidence is one of the most important concepts we have discussed in class. Paternal confidence is essentially how sure the male is that the offspring is actually his own kin. If a father has high paternity confidence, he will undoubtedly have a stronger presence in his offspring’s life. There would not be nearly as much love coming from the father, had his paternal confidence been lower. According to J. Hunt and L.W. Simmons, the variation in a male’s paternal confidence can possibly explain intra and intersexual differences in paternal care. I think that it is very obvious that in this song, the father is very confident that his daughter is of his own
The Beatles were a Liverpool based rock band formed in the 1950s. Now over 60 years after their start, The Beatles are nearly unanimously known as the greatest musical group in at least the past 100 years. I selected their song “In My Life” as the subject of my Man Tunes assignment. The song “In My Life” was written by Lennon and McCartney for the 1965 album Rubber Soul. The song has a runtime of 2 minutes and 26 seconds and was placed 5th on Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of the top 100 Beatles songs of all time. Although the true meaning behind the song was never fully disclosed, a very popular theory maintains that it is a father’s ode to his son or daughter(for simplicity's sake, I'm going to refer to child as his daughter). After re-reading the lyrics there isn’t substantial proof of this, but it would make more sense than if it were a song about a lover. Humans as a species have a special bond to their offspring unlike many other animals as human children have a long juvenile period. This bond sometimes results in the undying love and commitment from parents to their offspring, which is what I believe is being demonstrated in this song.
The lyrics in the song “In My Life” also point …show more content…
Paternal confidence is one of the most important concepts we have discussed in class. Paternal confidence is essentially how sure the male is that the offspring is actually his own kin. If a father has high paternity confidence, he will undoubtedly have a stronger presence in his offspring’s life. There would not be nearly as much love coming from the father, had his paternal confidence been lower. According to J. Hunt and L.W. Simmons, the variation in a male’s paternal confidence can possibly explain intra and intersexual differences in paternal care. I think that it is very obvious that in this song, the father is very confident that his daughter is of his own