Transitions may be challenging, confronting, exciting or transformative and can propel individuals into new phases of life and cause transitions in social context for broader society. Ben Haggerty, Mary Lambert and Ryan Lewis’ song ‘Same Love’, explores transitions that result in creating shifts in attitudes and beliefs, deepening understanding of one's choices and changing attitudes of either conforming or resisting the social norm.
A proposal of transition is portrayed through the idea of failed conformance, which the persona experiences towards the teenage phase of his life. As the individual grows up from younger years he accepts his sexuality but due to the negative social pressures placed around homosexuality, he choses to conceal and …show more content…
Social context and attitudes in the 90s were completely different to what they are know. The world has seen many changes in the favor of gay rights and is consistently providing more. The lyrics during the young phase of the personas life “we paraphrase a book written 3500 years ago” is an allusion on religion through the bible and its traduce of homosexuals. Due to the majority of society being religious, the social context and social conformity was to disregard homosexuals and their interests. Through the metaphor “With a veil over our eyes
We turn our back on the cause” exposes society who tend to ignore issues and do nothing about gay right which is just as bad as being the ones who discriminate. At the wedding we see the individual's parents happy and proud for his son which is a complete contrast to the way they acted during a dinner where the persona had invited his boyfriend. This transition of social context is the turning point of the protagonists life, where he can be free to express his sexuality and not be ill judged by
A proposal of transition is portrayed through the idea of failed conformance, which the persona experiences towards the teenage phase of his life. As the individual grows up from younger years he accepts his sexuality but due to the negative social pressures placed around homosexuality, he choses to conceal and …show more content…
Social context and attitudes in the 90s were completely different to what they are know. The world has seen many changes in the favor of gay rights and is consistently providing more. The lyrics during the young phase of the personas life “we paraphrase a book written 3500 years ago” is an allusion on religion through the bible and its traduce of homosexuals. Due to the majority of society being religious, the social context and social conformity was to disregard homosexuals and their interests. Through the metaphor “With a veil over our eyes
We turn our back on the cause” exposes society who tend to ignore issues and do nothing about gay right which is just as bad as being the ones who discriminate. At the wedding we see the individual's parents happy and proud for his son which is a complete contrast to the way they acted during a dinner where the persona had invited his boyfriend. This transition of social context is the turning point of the protagonists life, where he can be free to express his sexuality and not be ill judged by