Michael Jackson Song Analysis

The king of pop also known as Michael Jackson became a huge icon to many people all around the world. For the king of pop, it wasn’t always “just another generic song”. His songs truly captured the emotions or justices he wanted to convey. For example, he transitioned from love songs such as “You Are Not Alone” to a social justice songs like “They Don’t Care About Us” both from the same year of 1995. Almost all of his songs show a great message behind it with footage from the music video and or lyrics that express ideas of the sociological imagination. Particularly the song, “They Don’t Care About Us” evokes a message just from the video itself. Jackson wrote this song to bring awareness to ignored human rights, racism, and corruption not …show more content…
His lyrics really hits home on social problems because we can see that the world is unfair and continues to do so. Jackson also represents the average male with the line, “I have a wife and two children who love me”. With this line, it can represent the nuclear family of having a couple with two dependent children. Jackson also proclaims the corruption in the United States by stating lyrics such as “Tell me what has become of my rights. Am I invisible because you ignore me? Your proclamation promised me free liberty”. His lyrics show how the United States, isn’t what it’s made out to be. There is barely any liberty or even freedom here. It’s not a free country, it never has been. The combination of these genuine lyrics and video really brought the global attention on matters that needed to be addressed more. This led to why I chose this song because Jackson was able to see through the world’s society and convey it in a sociological standpoint. The really captures what sociologists see and helps us understand the world more. Such art like this is to be addressed and we can thanks Michael Jackson for his effort in fighting back the corruption in the