When I was in 3rd grade when we moved to Ankeny, IA. It’s really close to Des Moines. We rented a house behind this mansion and they had two kids there so, I became friends with them. They also went to the same school as me.…
Under the Influence: Discrimination Since the start of the 21st century, racial diversity has increased and the nation’s minority population has grown substantially. Minorities today are the majority in many parts of the country. Studies predict that if current rates of the national population continue to trend the way it has for the past 20 year, then by 2035, minorities will outnumber non-Hispanic caucasians. There are many benefits and advantages of diversity, however, there are also challenges and barriers. It is important to note that the very communities that are growing are also the ones that are experiencing significant obstacles, disparities and discrimination.…
Given all the tracks in coloring book, Chance the Rapper revealed to media that “Same Drugs” was the hardest to write and release on the mixtape. From that we , the listeners, should take the time to fathom the lyrical piece for it’s deeper meaning. When the track first dropped fans thought it was about Chance reminiscing about doing drugs with a friend in his pastime. However Chance laid on the line that this poem definitely wasn’t about actual drugs as the fans first thought. However through further analyzation of the lyrics it can be said that the song is really about chance’s drifting relationship with a friend and him pondering on his nostalgic childhood adventures.…
From this course, the artist that influenced my music taste the most is Ruth Brown with her song, "Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean". I really like her performance in the music video for this song because she have such a unique and robust style of singing that just pull you in. She bring pop influence to an R&B song, which completely change the mood of the lyrics. Her robust vocals also introduce a sense of fun and enthusiasm to the song. She makes her songs unique by singing the lyrics at different range of vocal, which also give her songs a sense of individuality that only she can replicate.…
In most wars, men are usually called into duty more often than women are. Often, there were no women around the camps the men were stationed, leaving the men in an isolated state where only the presence of a woman could bring them back some joy. The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong communicates the story of Mary Anne Belle who was brought to Vietnam by her lover, who miss her company. It is also about the deductive analysis of Mary Anne Belle and is a collection of the progression of her character’s changes as her days in Vietnam passes by.…
Hip-hop is a historically black genre of music, with different iterations almost everywhere in the world now. If you turn on your car radio on the way to work it’s likely that you’ll hear a popular hip-hop song. You may even come across street performers having a rap battle. Either way, it’s one of the most common genres today. Hip-hop is a genre dedicated to telling stories of hardship in a poetic form.…
I have no musical back ground at all, I just learned the word timbre so I am going to approach this from a listener points of view, as in a untrained ear so to speak. I listen to both songs three times while following the lyrics, and each time I notice something slightly different. The lyrics showed the content of the song in a social sense. But the timbre showed the emotional side that the lyrics alluded to. There is a progression of emotional that leads to a climax at the end that leaves the me the listener wondering what more about the culture and the tragic daily events that I have never known.…
In the fifth line, Brooks declares that she “[wants] to go in the back yard now,” representing how she has now grown up enough and is ready to go out on her own. In the sixth line, she says that she may want to go “down the alley,” illustrating how she has become more rebellious than before and wants to experience even more than she did before. In the first stanza, Brooks only wanted to “peek at the back,” but now she wants to go in the back and go down the alley. The “alley” is used to represent the extremities Brooks will go to in order to change her life. The “alley” is so far away from what she is used to in the front yard, so she wants to go there in order to experience all that she can.…
The Masterwork by Beyonce Lemonade is a visual album written by an American singer Beyoncé. This album has bought much attention do to the content and the celebrities that are part of the album. The weekend, James Blake, Jack White and Kendrick Lamar. In the album there are songs that mainly carried a little bit of rock and hip-hop. The album was released to Tidal on April 23, 2016.…
Sweet Child O’Mine by Guns N’ Roses The song became really popular until the current time because it has the best guitar solo of all time. This song was recorded during 1987 from the Appetite for Destruction album of the Guns N’ Roses that was released on the 17th of August the same year. Then, they made it as a single and was released on August 17, 1988, in the US, while in the UK it was released on May 29, 1989. The band who made the song was the Guns N’ Roses, they are an American rock band that debuted in 1985 and they are still a group until the current time.…
In J.Coles “She Knows” he uses a juvenile young man to demonstrate the life of a average suburban family and the struggles they go through. By looking at the the two scenes spoken about in this essay, we can see what exactly J.Cole means in his title “She Knows”, which most viewers don’t see; this is important because J.Cole changes the meaning of “She Knows” through the entire music video. The first important scene starts with the young man being dropped off by his mother and father on his way to school. This scene is significant because previously before the young man left the house he stole money from his parents and the young mans mother gazes at him in the car as if she knew what exactly he had done. The second important scene starts with…
Many artists these days tend to sample other authors work into their songs to add a greater purpose or meaning to their music. Although this technique is not used in a lot of genres and appears mostly in hip-hop music, forms of music sampling have been around since the late 1900’s. Artists like Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar are known for sampling other artist’s music or speeches and incorporating them into their songs to enhance the message or theme that is trying to be presented. Kendrick Lamar uses a sample in his song “Alright” to help illuminate what life is like as an African American and the struggles that they face due to their skin color.…
The song that I have decided to analyze is Formation, by Beyonce. Beyonce is a worldwide sensation in the pop music industry as well as in feminist culture. Beyonce originally started out in a singing group called Destiny’s Child, where she first became well known; once the group split, Beyonce started her own musical career and has not looked back since. In 2008, eleven years after dating, Beyonce and rapper and music producer Jay-Z married. Three years later, Beyonce became pregnant with their daughter, Blue Ivy.…
The novel, The Last Time I Saw Mother details the journey that Caridad embarks on to uncover the past that was hidden away from her and is the central message throughout our trailer. One of our core ideas is the representation of the members of Caridad’s family and their past through the “red strings of fate”. Caridad’s story is not her own. Her story and the secrets of her past are intertwined with the other protagonists within the book. Their connection has created a motif of a red string which quite literally connects the scenes throughout of the trailer.…