Songs About Jane

Ten Christian band Twenty One Pilots declared its musical manifesto three years ago in the song “Car Radio,” “I will try with every rhyme to come across like I am dying to let you know you need to try to think.” Twenty One Pilots’ hit “Stressed Out” is currently played on secular radio stations across the country and in Europe, and the duo is selling out concerts at every venue. Even though they are open about their faith, the band continues to sneak like a hacker through the world’s default…

issues of police brutality and the attempts to subside it with the Black Lives Matter movement. “Freedom” appeals to the African American audience and those who oppose their treatment. The artists, Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar, are the protagonists of the song who are faced with the conflict of man vs society, which is confronting ethnic…

but do we always listen and understand the lyrics? When you listen to a song for the first time, you’re just getting a feel for the song, and you enjoy the beat. The next time you listen to the song, you actually try to listen to the words. You start to understand what they are saying, and find lines you like the most and figure out what the artist means. These lyrics will be looked at from a sociological perspective, for the song “Wrong Way” by Sublime; I’ll be using course concepts for trying…

His Own Shot” by Brand New, relates to me personally because of a friendship I came across in high school. When I listen to this song, it brings me back to my teenage years, when I was a young girl longing for a relationship with my dream guy. This band was introduced to me by an English teacher from highschool whom I had the biggest crush on. I connect with this song because it reminds me of the relationship I had with this teacher. He stole my heart at first sight, introduced me to beautiful…

local community college (with a slightly bigger budget). However, after the first song I knew that I was going to be proven wrong. Featuring a myriad of Broadway hits, the soundtrack of this performance is what you would expect on a show-tunes playlist. Instead of making it difficult to live up to, the familiar soundtrack worked in the actors favor, with the entire audience humming along to almost every tune. Each song was brought to life not just through the lyrics, but the choreography as…

confused about the differences between lyrics and poems. Poems are outlined to be silent or aloud, on the other hand lyrics are mapped out to go along with music. Poems, unlike lyrics, can be misunderstood and read without a sound, however lyrics normally need accompanying music to be understood in the correct way. If you lay out the lyrics of Pink Floyd 's song "Time" without the accompanying music, many questions and observations come to mind. One of which why is there no chorus in the…

and best-selling author. In 2007 she received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for her performance in “Dreamgirls”. The title song from the album was “I Remember Me” which was co-written with Ryan Tedder who is also a Grammy Award-winning recording artist. Along with co-writing this song with Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Tedder wrote the music and produced the track for this song. Ryan Tedder is a self-taught musician and the lead singer of band OneRepublic in which he is the lead vocalist and plays…

Die Pig, Die!,” a quote from Ice-T most controversial song “Cop Killer” had everyone in rage. With words like these being said and being published without modifying the lyrics should say something about the artist and producer. From the society point of view, they would see this as hatred words being said as literal words towards cops and the artist intending to do something towards them. In reality and the artist point of view of creating a song, artists express themselves lyrically but need to…

Six Songs of Me Part One: What is the first song you ever bought? To remember a single song that was the first I ever purchased is difficult, but I can trace it back to one band and one album. The album is called Nevermind, performed by the band Nirvana. The song, in particular, that comes to mind is “Come As You Are.” I have always been a big Nirvana fan and this song is one of the first that I can remember downloading. Whether or not I downloaded them off of Itunes or Limewire, is beyond…

Kim Addonizio’s book, “Tell Me,” is a collection of poetry that depicts various different relationships and people in her life. It is mainly comprised of poems about doomed relationships and relationships that already cease to exist. In the poems, she frequently writes about memories of her past relationships. She also writes about feeling depressed and isolated. The collection of poems are extremely straightforward and clear. Many of them are also relatable and intensely personal. Her writing…