I Hate U I Love U Song Analysis

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The world is full of great songs and unique artists. Millions of songs are produced year after year. Only a select few are remembered. One song in particular is I Hate U, I Love U. The song written by Gnash, focuses on a love story gone wrong. I Hate U, I Love U features vocals by Olivia O’Brien. The song was released on February 17th, 2016. It topped ARIA charts April 19th, 2016. The song is featured in their album US. Gnash uses a love, hate type relationship between two people who seem to be in love. The audience can gain that the theme of this song is relationship problems using hate, but in a loving way.

To begin with, the tone of the song is heartbroken and torn apart. The music in the song is a low tone being played by a piano
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The protagonist misses the antagonist dearly. One may believe they were close friends but messed around, and it caused them to get attached even though they said they wouldn 't. They were trying to do the “friends with benefits”; however, it didn 't end the way it was suppose to. They both clearly went through some things and they are doubting the love they have for one another. The antagonist has a harder way of showing his love. However, the antagonist seems to have found someone else, and leaves the protagonist lost and lonely in the world. The audience can conclude by him getting a new girl, it could help him get over her. On the other hand, the protagonist is feeling like she wasn 't good enough, and upset because she will never be the girl he chose to be with. She is left to pick up the broken pieces. She believes that thinking of hating him will make her believe she will get over him. The protagonist is having a battle between the heart and mind. Her heart is still with the guy, but her mind says she needs to move on. The climax and turning point of the song would be the chorus: “I hate you I love you I hate that I love you don 't want to, but I can 't put nobody else about you I hate you I love I hate that I want you you want her you need her and I 'll never be her.” The chorus is the high point of the song when the protagonist is wanting to hate the antagonist, but can 't allow …show more content…
Gnash uses many modern day love into this song along with his other songs that are in the same album. This song will get any person from being pumped to being in the feels thinking about life and love. The audience can conclude that love is dangerous and hard to seek. When found, sometimes a person really does have to let go of what they really love. Love isn 't what people always think it is. Some people find love and never let it go, but many have to let go. Some find love and end up the happiest ever, and then others suffer from love whether death takes away the love or someone else takes it away. We can conclude though that Gnash knows a lot about

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