Erykah Badu was born as Erica Abi Wright on February 26, 1971. She is known on stage as Erykah Badu. Erykah Badu is also known as a woman of influence. Erykah uses her music and knowledge of the world to make her influence her own. One big way she does it is with her music, and in this poem, “Friends, Fans, and Artists Must Meet”. Erykah’s poem, “Friends, Fans, and Artists must meet”, African-Americans. This poem represents Erykah’s view of the world in the different type of perspectives. These perspectives are broken up into three different stanzas, which initially creates three different themes. The topics expressed in this poem are low self-esteem, acceptance of oneself, and people’s expectations of you when you become someone greater than
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This theme is just expressed throughout the poem especially in this specific stanza, “Folk in the face like she isn’t the same, Still the same bitch she just changed her name, she doesn’t really like to hang around with us no mo.’, Wasn’t nothing like that back in ‘94”. This quote specifically expresses the main theme of this poem and one of the biggest flaws in the African-American society. Also in this topic that is being discussed is the way people put up grand expectations for you when you become greater than who you really are. This can be an important thing as well because it has been shown when one person in the African-American community is onto a wave or trend that is different from everybody else’s people can put up these expectations towards that person and can cause envy/jealousy towards that individual. An example of this is expressed in the stanza from Erykah’s poem, “Friends, Fans, and Artists Must Meet”, “ She a rebel for the struggle fighting just like me I know she down to sing at the cookout for free I was kind of disappointed with the song she wrote Went to her website wrote a long ass note She done made a million dollars but she down to earth she be rocking chuck Taylors and a thrift so’ purse Signing autographs ‘til the park was dark I know its kina hard when they love your art”.
The second topic I’m going to talking about low self-esteem, most people only …show more content…
This concept is also expressed in Erykah’s poem, “Friends, Fans, and Artists Must Meet”, it often goes into detail about a particular individual whether that individual is a friend, fan, or artists. This is a concept that can be turned into a holistic view of yourself as an individual and with yourself as someone in a society full of forced and irrational ideas. A holistic society like that tends to push away an individual's view of themselves away and insert the ideas society finds more acceptable, this is where you push to better yourself beyond society’s view and create your own. These views of yourself as an individual can help someone overcome a view they have for themselves. An idea like this is exactly what Erykah’s poem does, it helps individuals realize they are much more than what society stores into their brains and can become much greater than they ought to be. This repetitive stanza throughout the poem exemplifies this idea, “Friends, fans, artists must meet which one are you, which one is me? Friends, fans, artists must meet which one are you, which one is
This theme is just expressed throughout the poem especially in this specific stanza, “Folk in the face like she isn’t the same, Still the same bitch she just changed her name, she doesn’t really like to hang around with us no mo.’, Wasn’t nothing like that back in ‘94”. This quote specifically expresses the main theme of this poem and one of the biggest flaws in the African-American society. Also in this topic that is being discussed is the way people put up grand expectations for you when you become greater than who you really are. This can be an important thing as well because it has been shown when one person in the African-American community is onto a wave or trend that is different from everybody else’s people can put up these expectations towards that person and can cause envy/jealousy towards that individual. An example of this is expressed in the stanza from Erykah’s poem, “Friends, Fans, and Artists Must Meet”, “ She a rebel for the struggle fighting just like me I know she down to sing at the cookout for free I was kind of disappointed with the song she wrote Went to her website wrote a long ass note She done made a million dollars but she down to earth she be rocking chuck Taylors and a thrift so’ purse Signing autographs ‘til the park was dark I know its kina hard when they love your art”.
The second topic I’m going to talking about low self-esteem, most people only …show more content…
This concept is also expressed in Erykah’s poem, “Friends, Fans, and Artists Must Meet”, it often goes into detail about a particular individual whether that individual is a friend, fan, or artists. This is a concept that can be turned into a holistic view of yourself as an individual and with yourself as someone in a society full of forced and irrational ideas. A holistic society like that tends to push away an individual's view of themselves away and insert the ideas society finds more acceptable, this is where you push to better yourself beyond society’s view and create your own. These views of yourself as an individual can help someone overcome a view they have for themselves. An idea like this is exactly what Erykah’s poem does, it helps individuals realize they are much more than what society stores into their brains and can become much greater than they ought to be. This repetitive stanza throughout the poem exemplifies this idea, “Friends, fans, artists must meet which one are you, which one is me? Friends, fans, artists must meet which one are you, which one is