Hegemony Aspects in Rebellion Song Lyric
Hegemony is the term that Antonio Gramsci, an Italian who was known as a leading Marxist thinker, used to denote one social party or individual’s predominance over others.
This term is not used only for political or economic subject but also any case when the dominant party shows the ability to make the subordinate party sees the view as the dominant party sees it.
In the music industry, especially in the contemporary popular music industry, it is believed by the American society that the elite society controlling it. The elite society has bigger power than the team of the artists themselves, or higher than the label of the artist. There are some conspiracy theories that say, this elite society is not …show more content…
From the lyrics above, there are three parties; the singer is the first party, ‘you’ is the second party, and ‘they’ is the third party.
As I mentioned earlier, the song itself is a hegemonic song because we can see it clearly that there are power differences between each party. Spears as the first party and ‘they’ as the third party portray the dominant party while ‘you’ here portray the subordinate party. We can see it from this part of lyrics:
‘You fall for their poison And become a part of their crew’
‘The poison they feed you And the voodoo that they do’
Spears said in this song that the second party will fall for the third party’s poison and become a part of their crew. Literally, poison is a substance that is dangerous and harmful for living being, either to the health or to the feeling. From the linguistic aspect, we can see that Spears wanted to say that the second party takes something dangerous and harmful that the third party offers and the second party be the part of it. In society, the giver is better or we can say in a higher position than the receiver. So from that sentence, we clearly see that the third party has more power than the second …show more content…
The sentence shows the leadership attitude and power and the ability of the first party to persuade, to make the second party start to see and think the same way as the first party by asking to join. The next sentence, the first party seems like to offer another option ‘or will you be taken too?’. If we take a look back to the whole lyrics, the second option that the first party offers does not sound right because back then the first party has already said that being with the third party, which is the second option, is not something positive to do. The first party has created the negative image of the third party while creating a positive image of following the first party by saying ‘but in rebellion there’s a sparkle of truth’. So still, even though the first party offers two options, the first party sounds optimistic about
Hegemony is the term that Antonio Gramsci, an Italian who was known as a leading Marxist thinker, used to denote one social party or individual’s predominance over others.
This term is not used only for political or economic subject but also any case when the dominant party shows the ability to make the subordinate party sees the view as the dominant party sees it.
In the music industry, especially in the contemporary popular music industry, it is believed by the American society that the elite society controlling it. The elite society has bigger power than the team of the artists themselves, or higher than the label of the artist. There are some conspiracy theories that say, this elite society is not …show more content…
From the lyrics above, there are three parties; the singer is the first party, ‘you’ is the second party, and ‘they’ is the third party.
As I mentioned earlier, the song itself is a hegemonic song because we can see it clearly that there are power differences between each party. Spears as the first party and ‘they’ as the third party portray the dominant party while ‘you’ here portray the subordinate party. We can see it from this part of lyrics:
‘You fall for their poison And become a part of their crew’
‘The poison they feed you And the voodoo that they do’
Spears said in this song that the second party will fall for the third party’s poison and become a part of their crew. Literally, poison is a substance that is dangerous and harmful for living being, either to the health or to the feeling. From the linguistic aspect, we can see that Spears wanted to say that the second party takes something dangerous and harmful that the third party offers and the second party be the part of it. In society, the giver is better or we can say in a higher position than the receiver. So from that sentence, we clearly see that the third party has more power than the second …show more content…
The sentence shows the leadership attitude and power and the ability of the first party to persuade, to make the second party start to see and think the same way as the first party by asking to join. The next sentence, the first party seems like to offer another option ‘or will you be taken too?’. If we take a look back to the whole lyrics, the second option that the first party offers does not sound right because back then the first party has already said that being with the third party, which is the second option, is not something positive to do. The first party has created the negative image of the third party while creating a positive image of following the first party by saying ‘but in rebellion there’s a sparkle of truth’. So still, even though the first party offers two options, the first party sounds optimistic about