Analysis of 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night by Simon and Garfunkel

For instance, the song “Ohio” seems to lament the Kent State shootings at the surface level, but from a more analytic perspective, condemns Richard Nixon and the United States military for their irresponsible and unwarranted actions in the Vietnam war, which will be discussed more later in the paper. The mood and tone of the song, which captures the frustration that the youth of America felt regarding Nixon regarding the war in Vietnam when this song, parallels the mood and tone of Starr’s motown classic, “War.” Much like “Ohio,” “War” also delivers a clear and powerful mood and tone of frustration towards the powers that be regarding the war and its drastic effects on society. “War” differs from “Ohio” in the method that it uses to portray this mood, in that “Ohio” utilizes a somewhat typical chorus-verse style to deliver its message, while “War” relies on audience involvement through the use of a call-and-response technique. Throughout the song, Starr takes on the role of a feux-preacher, begging his audience to join with him as they sing, equating their beliefs that the war in Vietnam is worthless and detrimental to society. In spite of these similarities in mood and tone, the two songs could not be more different from a musical perspective, as “Ohio” uses

It makes me look at human beings in a different light, to pause and consider everything that is happening around me in everyday life. That is what makes it so interesting; it’s a song that unveils the unnerving truth. The songs I have chosen all point to today’s society – the negativity, the feelings we conceal, and the regret of open admittance. Emphasizing upon the way us humans sometime behave. We’re not perfect.

Though this song has no lyrics, it still fills you with adrenaline but also gives a melancholy feeling. Just like the effect war has on people. Not talking regarding about what happened or what's happening in our world. Sometimes silence is more effective showing pain than words are. When you look at artwork from a museum, one doesn’t always need to be told what’s going on know what’s happening. Some things don’t need to be said or explained.

The decade of the 1960’s in the United States was very different from previous years. Before the 1960’s, everyone conformed to everything of importance; the role of women, the status of African Americans, and the support of the US Military. This all changed when the 1960’s began. The concept of conformity vanished and in came the act of rebellion. Rebellion as a whole completely reshaped the United States of America and the morals that had. Starr successfully reflects the 1960’s by incorporating a rebellious tone throughout his song, elaborating on what people thought about the war, and by including what the effects of the Vietnam War were.

Whenever a person turns on the news, they can always find out that something bad has happened or is happening in the world. Issues such as racism, sexism, and police brutality are problems that has happened in the past and are still a big issue in today’s society. Imagine if a random person is getting attacked on the street but they are unable to scream for help because they have no voice. Most people in today’s society, feel that when they are getting attacked by somebody being racist, sexist, getting attacked by the police, etc. that they have no “voice” to speak up and make a change on a situation. Songwriters uses their songs to voice their opinions on issues that effects their lives or the people around them.

The social issue chosen is “TEENAGE TRAGEDY.” One curious pattern in well known music that tagged along in the mid sixties was "dead teenage" music. These melodies recounted the account of adolescent love sadly cut off by the soul harvester. Presently, while this kind of tune would appear to have a place in the class of acting as opposed to awfulness, they share a large number of the same topics that described ghastliness music of the stone "n" move time. One was the association of high school sentiment with annihilation. Love can possibly be unfortunate, and significantly a greater amount of the case in the tunes managing suicide, love realizes disaster. Remarkably, and it's made unequivocal in "Ebony Eyes," by the “Everly

The last lines in the song are ‘’ So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street when gang banging make me kill a nigga blacker than me? Hypocrite!’’ Trayvon Martin was a 17 years old black boy who got shot by George Michael Zimmerman. In these lines, he basically says why do I cry when a white man kills a black person when black people kill black people all the time. And that’s why he calls himself Hypocrite.

Before Paul Simon became popular with his solo album, Graceland, he performed with his good friend Art Garfunkel, forming the duo Simon and Garfunkel. They quickly became one of the most popular musical acts of the 1960s and still continue to be well-known today. From the beginning, Simon made political statements in his song writing, making references to the civil rights movement. On his first album with Garfunkel, they included covers of Bob Dylan’s “He Was My Brother,” “The Times Are A-Changin,’” and various other songs. “He Was My Brother” created a direct connection the civil rights movement but the other songs didn’t make a connection to the struggle of the movement in America. Even though Simon & Garfunkel were not part of the civil

The song just says one day everything will be different and at this time segregation is going on. This song and the story will match well because it talks about changes happening and changes happen in the book. This would be some of the music you would here in the old times and it just goes really well with the book. The setting and the old times and segregation happening also make it go well with the book in all. The book talks about how the economy for whites and colored people was so different and the song just says that Jazz is the one thing that just makes people love the music and enjoy

The lyrics in the song tell us of how that even though slaver no is allowed it is not forgotten. That while black are free that still are repressed by society.

They wished they could have taken action to have demanded more respect but unfortunately were never given the chance and that’s where the inspiration of the song came to light. At first this song gained more popularity with those who were powerless and against the dominant white culture but as time grew so did his messages and then he started to grow to other groups who were looking for a change as well. A very demanding tone is exuded by encouraging his audience to “stand up for their rights”, in the entirety of the song but in a positive connotation because it gives off a sense of togetherness and a ‘we’ feeling, which is most important when creating a song like

The lines read “From lowered blinds the dark folk stare and her the fair folk talk.” As I was growing up and even in my current life, my grandfather has always had his opinion on the different races in which walk our earth. He was raised in a time where racism was a common thing, and to no surprise blacks and whites didn’t always get along. I, as a seventeen-year-old high school student, have never worried or had a problem with people of color or origin. It is hard for me to listen to some of the things he says, but I know it is because of how he was raised and he will always be that way. Just as it was stated in this poem and will be a living fact for many years to come, black and white people won’t always see eye to eye. However, they will still continue to appreciate one another because everyone is created

Simon and Garfunkel is trying to show silence and darkness as more of a friend that you are glad to see and to show that silence is not a bad thing with their tone. Disturbed on the other hand is trying to show the sound of silence and darkness as more of a old friend you would rather not meet until the very end. Very similar with Disturbed’s song the Touch of Glass they seem to try to tell you of the hardship of silence and

Simon and Garfunkel were an iconic duo that sang many hit songs. One of them is the Sound of Silence, which in all reality is just a poem set to a melody. There are three main things that are three main points that really stick out in this poem: silence, neon light, and an anonymous narrator. But what do all of these have to do with one another?

The song "Sounds of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel is a very catchy song because of the rhyming and also has many of the poem language and diction already in it which makes it a very interesting tune to listen to. My first impressions of the song were in a positive manner. It first come out with “Hello darkness, my old friend” showing that he is in the dark and does not know