Analyzing The Song 'Leaving The Motel'

“Crazy Blues” by Noble Sissle is a cover of the song originally written by Perry Bradford. This timeless piece of history was first recorded on August 10th, 1920 by Mamie Smith and later released on as a vinyl record by Okeh Records.3 Smith’s version of the song was wildly successful, selling 75,000 copies in the first month following its release. Within a year, the record had sold over a million copies, and in all, two million copies were purchased.4 After its incredible success, recording companies rushed to record other African American singers. Noble Sissle’s version was recorded later that same year, and had similar success. Despite the large quantity of blues recordings during the 1920’s, “Crazy Blues” is considered the first successful blues song recorded by an African American artist.9 Ironically, “Crazy Blues” is considered more of a popular song than a blues song despite many references to “blues” throughout the track. Nevertheless, this song paved the way for black music makers into a then predominately-white recording industry, and quickly after its release, a market for black music emerged. Perry Bradford, who wrote “Crazy Blues”, also persuaded several record companies to invest in a music market specifically for blacks.9 After record companies realized the lucrativeness of selling “race

This implies that something clicked within the man and woman that they cannot keep tugging back and forth living the way they had been. Lines 13-15 resembles a hyperbole that seems to exaggerate an x-ray, “we held ourselves up to a light that X-rayed our flesh to see if we were made for one another”. Though an X-ray does allow one to see inside their bodies, it cannot literally tell one whether or not they are a perfect match with someone. Throughout the stanza, the theme is represented in a way that the couple starts to question whether or not they are right for one another. This shows one of the many issues real relationships face in the real world—questioning whether what they have is real and worth

This song relates to Jay Gatsby and Wes Moore. Gatsby longs for Daisy and wants them to run away together. Nick tries to explain to Gatsby that you can't always get what you want but Gatsby won't believe it. Wes Moore also realizes that you don't always get what you want when he is sent to jail after being accused of murder.

It is especially important to pay attention to the first two lines in each verse, as they reveal the most in terms of the lyrical meaning behind the song. The song begins with the lines “I keep a close watch on this heart of mine, I keep my eyes wide open all the time.” The key theme in these lines is the idea of Johnny Cash keeping his sights on what is important, his new wife. He is “keeping a close watch” on his heart as if to ensure it does not give into desires and go astray. This key theme of devotion is continued throughout the rest of the song, as can be constantly seen in each beginning lines in each verse (Cash).

On average, 1 person commits suicide every 16.2 minutes(Do Something). The song 1-800 by Logic sets a scene of a boy who goes through life and struggles with being gay, bullied, and suicidal thoughts. Which leads to a call to the 1-800 suicide hotline. The video takes a turn and ends happily with the main actor being married and surrounded by family and friends. The main point that this song displays is that suicide is a real problem and it portrays that through stressing the importance of accepting everyone. My main points in this paper are the content of the video, the sound and pace, how this piece affects today’s society, what modes of persuasion are used.

The third stanza goes on to define the pain, only now in more emotional terms, such as "It hurts to thwart the reflexes / of grab, of clutch" (14-15), as well as the pain of continuously having to say good bye, each perhaps as if for the last time: "to love and let / go again and again" (15-16). These lines reinforce the impression that the first stanza's definition of "to love differently" is in fact an anti-freedom or state of emotional anarchy, now using words like "pester" to describe any separation; the poet is compelled "to remember / the lover who is not in the bed" (16), hinting at obsessive tendencies as being possible components of the relationship. We also learn that she believes love requires work, which she cannot do without her partner's assistance, and that this lack of cooperation frustrates her. She believes this neglected effort is the other party's fault by his failure to do his fair share, thereby leaving her own efforts ineffective, the whole of it characterized as an effort "that gutters like a candle in a cave / without air" (19-20). Her demands of this work are quite broad, encompassing being "conscious, conscientious and concrete" in her efforts and optimistically calling this work "constructive" (20-21) before ending the stanza.

We see how these concepts norms, values, structure and social facts, and agency give an understanding to lyrics in a song for society and how the concepts tell the story in the song “Wrong way” by Sublime. Many important factors came from these concepts we have to see the role society (her father, brothers, and narrative) played in Annie’s life and what influenced her choices in life. Symbolic interaction theory effectively explains the narrative in this song because of the different views Annie and him see with her life, that her reality of her life is a good life, and that he does not see it as a good way of life but as a bad road ahead.

Ludacris does a remarkable job of portraying his message about the struggles that some adolescents are faced with. “Runaway Love”, by Ludacris, featuring Mary J. Blige (2007), represents the theme of struggle through hip-hop and rap music. It is about little girls who are “stuck up in the world on their own.” They have to take care of themselves because the people they are around do not care about them. They range from nine to eleven years in age, and their goal in life, at such a young age, is to run away from home. Ludacris is trying to get the listener to realize the struggles that even children have to face because adults are not the only ones who have problems, like most people believe. He is very successful in

Many people have a drive. What is your “why”? The song that you are about to see get analyzed is by a musical group called Survivor. The song was originally made for Rocky (the movie) but the song made its way known all over. This song is called “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor. This piece categorizes as a rock (genre) song. Survivor uses Hyperbole, Alliteration, and Idiom to convey a message that helps persuade people to never give up. “If you dream it you can achieve it.”

“Cherrylog Road” addresses the love in a more allusive way than “Come under the Covers”. Dickey uses figurative language and metaphors to describe the tension between the two lovers such as “Through dust where the blacksnake dies / of boredom” and “So the blacksnake, stiff / with inaction, curved back / into life, and hunted the mouse” (79, 88-90). Not only does this imply the contrast of tension between the two statements and the two lovers, but also the lack of actual sentiment between the couple. In contrast, “Come under the Covers” is slightly more direct with the intentions of the couple. “Come under the covers cause I want to leave you satisfied tonight” clearly allows the listener to know what is being implied by Petricca (13-14).

Sex without love is unity and solitude happening simultaneously. At the beginning of the poem, sex is compared to dancers and ice-skaters gliding over each other, but in the end, it’s like a lone runner. Emotions are not shared, and Olds states that “they do not mistake the lover for their own pleasures” (line 19) revealing how selfish the act is and commitment becomes a jargon to the lovers since they are only interested in themselves. “Sex without love is an empty experience, but as experiences go, it’s one of the best.” (Woody Allen).

The song “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out” by Cat Stevens, featured repeatedly in the film and on the soundtrack of Harold and Maude (1971), was an original work created for the film. It best represents the film and the ideas portrayed in it through the film’s main characters by relating to them through uplifting lyrics and meanings that can be associated with the pasts and presents of the characters. It describes the way one yearns to live and displays the way the other does.

In this way Armitage may be suggesting that they use to have a close relationship, but have grown distant with time and age. The speaker looks back onto, perhaps fonder times where the Harmoniums “hummed harmonics still struck a chord” and “where father and son,/each in their time” had sung, implying that the speaker wants to have the relationship he used to have with his father, however the speaker still is not able to express his feelings clearly enough, only able to “mouth” a “shallow or sorry phrase”. In “In Paris with You” there are also mentions of the past, in the very first line the speaker says “don’t talk to me of love, I’ve had an earful” implying that the relationship is purely physical in his mind, this is further implied in the third stanza when the speaker asks to forgo a date. “Do you mind if we do not go to the Louvre,/ if we say sod off to sodding Notre Dame,/ if we skip the Champs Elysées,/And remain here” in these three lines the speaker is very specific, this implies that going to the Louvre and Notre Dame is something he has done before, perhaps with his last lover, and is purposely trying to avoid doing it again and thereby avoiding a relationship. The speaker asks to skip the date and the romance, the speaker is not asking for love but sex, he says he’s “in Paris with the slightest thing [she does]”, “with [her] eyes,” “[her] mouth” and “all points south”, all very physical descriptions implying sex.

The Vietnam war was a major event to America because it had major conflicts with personal opinions of the people of 1960’s. In this era, plenty of people were rethinking on why they were fighting in a war that they did not need to be fighting. and joined the anti-war movement. This can explicitly be seen from the type of music that people were listening to at the time. The song that I am going to be analyzing is “Paint it Black” by the Rolling Stones. This song resonated with the persona of the people for multiple reasons because it was a song that was about losing a loved one and dealing with the sadness.

“I’ll Be Missing You” is a rap ballad by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans featuring R&B group 112. This song was written in memory of renowned rap artist Christopher Wallace who many may also know him as ‘Biggie Smalls, Big papa, or The Notorious B.I.G.’ He was gunned down and murdered in Los Angles in March of 1997. Almost immediately following his death, Puff Daddy and Wallace’s widowed wife, Faith Evans, team up to say their farewells. What started out as a tribute to Wallace, ended up having a much bigger impact on the world than expected.