Same Love by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert: Redefinition of Love
Imagine that you have finally found the love of your life. Someone that you want to have a family with, build a home, and grow old together. What if society denied you the right to marry this person? The right to pledge eternity to each other. The right to happiness. Unfortunately, this idea illustrates the everyday struggle of homosexuals. The movement for gay rights has always been an uphill battle. Despite animosity, people are continuing to join the gay rights movement and it has been publicized now, more than ever. In fact, the gay rights movement is so popular that it has even reached the heights of the hip-hop industry. Ben Haggerty, better known by his rap name, Macklemore, released the song “Same Love” in 2012. It underlines a powerful message of equal rights for humans. Inside the music video and lyrics of “Same Love”, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis emphasize the everyday struggle of being gay in a straight world in order to raise LGBTQ awareness and formalize same-sex marriage.
Macklemore was inspired to write the song when he came across a story of a young man who had been bullied for being gay and eventually killed himself. During the course of the rap artist’s childhood, being gay was something that was …show more content…
Lambert struggled for many years with her sexual identity. In an online interview, Mary reflects on her internal struggle of coming out and says, “I woke up every morning and I would sit and I would apologize to God. The whole lyric of ‘I’m not crying on Sundays’ is because I would go and I would sit in church and be so wracked with guilt, apologizing” (Kanye para 3). Essentially, each artist had their own motivation to the lyrics. By contributing their personal story into the tone of the song, “Same Love” hit #1 on the ARIA charts (Matheson para
Imagine that you have finally found the love of your life. Someone that you want to have a family with, build a home, and grow old together. What if society denied you the right to marry this person? The right to pledge eternity to each other. The right to happiness. Unfortunately, this idea illustrates the everyday struggle of homosexuals. The movement for gay rights has always been an uphill battle. Despite animosity, people are continuing to join the gay rights movement and it has been publicized now, more than ever. In fact, the gay rights movement is so popular that it has even reached the heights of the hip-hop industry. Ben Haggerty, better known by his rap name, Macklemore, released the song “Same Love” in 2012. It underlines a powerful message of equal rights for humans. Inside the music video and lyrics of “Same Love”, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis emphasize the everyday struggle of being gay in a straight world in order to raise LGBTQ awareness and formalize same-sex marriage.
Macklemore was inspired to write the song when he came across a story of a young man who had been bullied for being gay and eventually killed himself. During the course of the rap artist’s childhood, being gay was something that was …show more content…
Lambert struggled for many years with her sexual identity. In an online interview, Mary reflects on her internal struggle of coming out and says, “I woke up every morning and I would sit and I would apologize to God. The whole lyric of ‘I’m not crying on Sundays’ is because I would go and I would sit in church and be so wracked with guilt, apologizing” (Kanye para 3). Essentially, each artist had their own motivation to the lyrics. By contributing their personal story into the tone of the song, “Same Love” hit #1 on the ARIA charts (Matheson para