Analysis Of Concrete Angel By Martina Mcbride

The song I chose is a song sung by Martina McBride, a country singer, called Concrete Angel. The song was written by Rob Crosby and Stephanie Bentley, later released on November 18, 2002. The song is about a young girl, Angela Carter, who doesn’t have the most stable and safest home. At home she is domestically abused by her drugged mother, neglected and forced to take care of herself; she packs her own school lunch, walks to school by herself, and is wearing the same dress showing her mom does not care to give her new clothes. When watching the music video, in the beginning children are laughing at her, which shows she is bullied, another main theme tackled in the song. The bruises are seen by her teacher and the neighbors hear her

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When looking at the song Concrete Angel, it is apparent from the very first verse that this song addresses child abuse, however the song tells a story about child abuse, and that and the way it was lyrically written is why it was chosen as an example. When looking at this example, the lyrics speak to the child abuse by talking about a little girl going to school wearing the same clothes, and hiding her bruises. Then it speaks about neighbors ignoring the crying, and then it being too late the next morning. In the end the child that is being abused is with her angels, meaning that the abused turned out to be fatal. Therefore this song is almost in the middle in regards to sending a preventative message, because it explains what can happen when people ignore obvious signs of abuse, but then again the message that it should not have happened in the first place is not there. If they included a verse about what the outsiders seeing the abuse should have done then the song could have been seen as more preventative in regards to the child abuse. The second song which is similar to Concrete’s Angel is the song Alyssa Lies by Jason Carroll, this song was chosen because it shows that children who are friends with children are abused, will notice these things and want to help. This song once again conveys the message about child abuse that if you do not seek help, or ask for help from someone else in the beginning that it can be too late. The song addresses the fact

In “Black Roses”, Bowen begins the song with piano chords played hard, but with gaps in between. This is to grab the listeners’ attention, but at the same time put the emphasis on the words she is singing. As she is striking these piano chords, she sings “You can throw your words sharper than a knife/And leave me cold/In another house on fire.” Her voice is soft and somber. Her tone implies that she has been defeated by forces beyond her control. The instrumentation at this point in the song is only the piano and Bowen is forcefully striking the chords. This forcefulness is indicative of the forces she feels she has been defeated by. What has defeated her is the relationship with her partner. This relationship has collapsed just as her mother foretold. Bowen chose not to listen to her mother’s sage advice and now must live with the defeat she feels about the failed relationship with her partner as well as the damage it has caused between Bowen and her mother. The texture is very thin at this point, with vocals only being accompanied by the piano chords. This thin texture and absence of additional musical accompaniment indicates the void she feels as a result of what has unfolded.

The woman’s struggle is continued in the second verse. “Talkin’ to herself, there’s no one else who needs to know, she tells herself, oh” gives the listener an insight into the woman’s thought process. She has convinced herself that no one else needs to be