A few months after writing his song “Cinderella”, Steven Curtis Chapman’s youngest daughter was tragically hit by her brother’s SUV when she ran out to meet him upon his arrival home. This devastating event gave a whole new meaning to “Cinderella”, and Chapman poured more emotion into his performance of the song than ever before, using the song as a way to cope with his grief. In David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole, the Corbett family suffers from a similar experience when Becca and Howie’s four-year-old son, Danny, runs out in front of a car and is killed. All of the characters deal with the grief of losing someone so young, and all of them grieve in their own, unique ways. Lindsay-Abaire displays the theme that, while grief is a universal…
Terrie Gray 4th period In the song “Sweet Home Alabama” it refers to the person named “you.” There is more than one “you” in this song. The first you in the song talks about Alabama, and the other talks about Neil Young. In the sixteenth stanza, it says “Lord, I’m coming home to you.”…
In “Fish Cheeks” Amy Tan finds it embarrassing and difficult to sit through Christmas Eve dinner with her family and her minister’s family. Alice Walker, the author of “Without Commercials” gave advice that would help people with self esteem and not changing. Alice Walker’s advice would’ve helped Amy Tan. Alice Walker would have a lot to say to Amy Tan, most similar to what she wrote in “Without Commercials”. Alice Walker would have told Amy Tan that she should be proud of her heritage, traditions, and customs.…
The Girl and the Dreamcatcher is an American pop band consisting of Dove Cameron and Ryan McCartan. Dove Cameron and Ryan McCartan are costars on the Disney Channel show Liv and Maddie. They are in love on and off the screen, they have been in a relationship for about 3 years and they’ve been engaged for 5 months. They started on YouTube, their first video was a cover of “At Last I See the Light”. In May 2015 Dove Cameron revealed that the two were going to officially form a band, and release their first original song.…
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.…
Shona Gordon- Tiny Dancer by Elton John For her introduction song of choice, Shona Gordon chose the song Tiny Dancer by Elton John. At first glance, Shona may look like the typical girl that only cares about her and the way she looks. But as you listen to the song something else shines in her eyes as the song play. There is a gleam of something bigger; a dream of something more for her future and the chance to make her name well known.…
In the 2001 hit, “Rock the Boat”, Aaliyah reveals to the 21st century her change into womanhood and to the R&B world a new way to chart with suggestive lyrics. Through the colors of her wardrobe, her background dancers, and her lyrics, Aaliyah brought forth a civilized way to introduce her new identity without being given a title through societal view. When Aaliyah was first introduced to the R&B world, she was identified and characterized as a little girl who did not have much experience in life. However, through her music, she drastically proved to the R&B world that she had much more experience in life than they had believed.…
Zoe, this is one of my favorite songs. When Ruth told me your name I thought immediately of the song by Lenny Kravitz for his daughter Zoe. I wanted to share with you the lyrics that Lenny wrote for his Zoe. This is song is from an album called “Mama Said”. The album came out the year before I met your mom in 1992.…
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.…
I loved the version Recorded at Raiford Women's Penitentiary in Florida 1939 featuring a state prisoner singing "Barbara Allen. " The song is based on a traditional ballad that originated in Scotland around the 14th or 15th century. It is about unreciprocated love and remorse. In essence Jhon Graeme loves Barbara Allen, but she denies his love. He dies soon after and she, consumed by guilt dies too.…
How to be the Perfect Man To be perfect is having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be. Most people strive for perfection but the key is to listen to the music around you to see what others view as perfect today. Songs like “I need a hero” by Bonnie Tyler shows men what exactly a perfect man would be. First the song criticize men for not being like Hercules or like a God. Bonnie Tyler’s song says we must find the man of our dreams.…
Throughout the song he mentions that he no longer needs his father because he has Clancy, Clancy is Tyler’s manager who has supported him throughout his career. Tyler says, “but fuck it, I got Clancy, he gave me the chance to see a world I wasn 't supposed to, I 'm stoked that I didn 't know you” (“Tyler The Creator“). Clancy is who Tyler ultimately looks up to for guidance as a father figure in his later life. Although he hates his father Tyler credits much of his success with Odd Future to his father. He even clearly states it when he says, “So you not being near fucking fire-started my damn career” (“Tyler The Creator“).…
“Lost Sister” by Cathy Song presents the universal struggle of women in finding who they are in society as observed in two different environments. The first half of the poem is in China and presents the women as united as sisters, but in the second half in America one sister becomes lost. Song is able to use inclusive terms such as sisters and they to show to juxtapose the you that both relate to the universal struggle i to create a helplessness to the poem that truly encompasses what a lost sister is. The poem begins by presenting women as sisters, using terms such as Jade, and “they” to unify them and describe them as one. The are first introduced as Jade; Jade is mostly used for decorative purposes such as jewelery, and here it is described…
People handle the loss of a love one differently, there are some people who let their feelings be known to the public while there are others who repress their grief. Gus, from the short story “Lets go to the Videotape” by Fiona Maazel, does not know how to deal with the deal of his mother. The short story starts off with Nick, the father, filming Gus falling off of his bike and putting it up online. It receives enough attention to get a spot on America’s Funniest Home Videos. After winning the show, Gus gets bullied at school while Nick becomes addicted to the amount of attention he is getting from other people in a similar situation.…
From paint spreading on a canvas, to bright lights shinning on a stage, women have equally shined in the limelight. When thinking lyrics that scream feminist, think Beyoncé; she has made it clear in all her songs that “girls run the world”, and should run this world. “We raise girls to see each other as competitors…Not for jobs or for accomplishments,….Which I think can be a good thing… But for the attention of men” directly out of her song called Flawless, Beyoncé shows how women are being brainwashed as kids, they don't even get to better them self’s, instead women do things for the attention of men.…