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    Gender Stereotypes

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    One way to apply the blues with men’s problem with women is to argue how men come up with their lyrics. It states that the arguments eternalize negative stereotypes of women during 60’s, blues people follow their blues progression with some distortion and a quick tempo. It also follows a simple chord progression of blues-based rock and roll formulas. "The resulting noise makes it sound as if the listener's stereo volume is turned up too far, adding an element of urgency". It is the belief that…

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    do whatever they want to you because your love for them is so powerful that you would never let them go. This song conveys how love went stale because they didn’t truly love each other. They only used you for their own benefit and to state this the lyrics uses imagery to express this meaning throughout the song. Example “Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya She tied you to her kitchen chair And she broke your throne and she cut your hair”(Jeff Buckley). This song makes us want to love those…

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    Sun-Kissed Book Report

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    give up her hope in finding her way out. The lyrics “Losing friends and I'm chasing sleep Everybody's worried about me In too deep Say I'm in too deep (in too deep) And it's been two years I miss my home But there's a fire burning in my bones Still believe Yeah, I…

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    music with feeling a cold gust of wind around her. Eventually Ava's parents make her go to the beach for 4th of July. One day she was walking on the beach and black lab runs up to her following behind was the dog's owner, his name is Lyric. They start talking and she feels these amazing feelings again. She feels alive. All of a sudden she remembers Jackson and it ruins her mood. She leaves in a hurry and he screams his email to her. When Ava and her family get home everything feels…

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    how it’s likeable. Most of the music we hear today are upbeat and have catchy lyrics. It is easy to remember a song or the lyrics of song if it has a great beat, but songwriters and composers today have abused the term “having a great beat,” so having focused solely on that their songs become lively yet senseless, to the point that many of the lyrics composed no longer have depth and…

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    Body Count Ethnography

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    Los Angeles heavy metal band, Body Count, found themselves in the middle of censorship disputes with the release of their self-titled album in March 1992. The main issue surrounded Ice-T’s lyrics in the song, “Cop Killer” which was deemed to encourage violence towards police. Calls to Time Warner to discontinue distribution of the track gained in popularity when the song was publically condemned by Vice President Dan Quayle. There were also appeals to boycott all Time Warner media from the…

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    (above) was a creative response to Sappho, the response was a poem “translation” of themes within Sappho, constructed from the lyrics to a pop song which shared the same themes with the Sappho. The pop song chosen was Madonna’s Like A Virgin, the poem was made from the deconstructed lyrics. The poem is entitled Maidenhood.…

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    his point of view of the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. Amid the 1800's bondage was being annulled be that as it may, before this time slave conditions in the sugar homes were among the most merciless. Subjects that persistently emerge in the lyric are Walcott's appearances about the devastation of the Caribbean utilizing references to death, rotting, and recorded figures. Walcott utilizes realistic symbolism, unpredictable dialect and rhyme plans to pass on what he feels were not kidding…

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    father we don’t need to escalate" and this sentence is a metaphor for the authority. He logically proved to them that wars are not the right way of dealing with any situation. Despite Gaye's sorrow and the miserable events that he got through, the lyrics showed an optimistic tone like, "bring some love here today", "for only love can conquer hate", and "we have got to find a way". He got this optimistic tone from Martin Luther King. As in king's quotation, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness:…

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    and later succeeded as a top 10 hit in 1966. This information not only highlights the popularity of the song, but also how the genre became popular during the 1960s and 70s. Audience members seemed to enjoy the mix of various styles and uplifting lyrics during this…

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