Colbie Cailat Songs

The singer does not decide to report the abuse until it is too late. This song seems to pull on the emotions of the listener and encourages them to not hesitate to

To start off, the first stanza in her song represents a sense of how unavoidable change is and how the confusion of the bond combined with the stress of the blame game can lead to a doomed

“Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don’t make it wait any longer.”(Maraboli) When you make that decision in your life that you aren’t content with where you are, it finally clicks that you need to get up and make that change in your life. Giving yourself the power to go in any direction and being able to make the decision on how your attitude will affect your day. Knowing your self worth even at the lowest points in life that when you want to be great, you will be. It may not be easy to climb out of your lowest points because you start to make excuses for yourself on why you could never be happy again. Thinking that it just isn’t meant for you to be successful after the depressing times you have been through. Similar to, “Fight Song,” Rachel Platten wrote this song at her worst times in her life, but used it to remind her not to give up, that she believed in herself and still had fight left. The rhetorical devices used in Rachel Patton’s “Fight Song” are intended to reveal to the listener that to empower yourself, the listener needs to make those changes their life for their own happiness.

This song portrays her early mental weakness or low self-esteem given that she appeared to be, “scared to rock the boat and make a mess. So I sit quietly, agree politely. I let you push me past the breaking point. I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything” (AZLyrics, 2013). This is in view of the fact that she was able to gradually convert into a leader fighting with the eye of the tiger that is, “louder than a lion cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar” (AZLyrics, 2013). This maturity targets bravery to grow from their insecurity which pushes a constructive message of strength to everyone. In brief, the role of emotion in her music will, therefore, continue to brings to mind considerable positivity from a psychological

In particular, this song targets female who belittle themselves while being caught up in all the negativity they encounter every day when looking in the mirror. J. Cole goes as far as addressing his own imperfections and states that he doesn’t have the Colgate smile, nor the braces to fix it, but still accepts himself for who he is and embraces it (Genius 2012).

Thesis: Colbie Caillat uses her music to spread positivity and acceptance, making her a muse, while Madonna serves as a monster by encouraging reckless behavior and unnecessary rebelliousness. MUSE TS: Colbie Caillat serves as a muse by promoting positivity and self love and calling out today’s unrealistically high beauty standards. In her song, “Try”, Caillat addresses young girls who struggle to fit in and appreciate their unique beauty. C1: In the beginning of the song, she criticizes the pressure put on girls to look “perfect” by voicing the message they get from the media and from other people.

I say “her” because in the first part of the video, a male comes up. When he breaks the way the other person was mistreating him and not allowing him to be himself. I believe the relationship that a person with non-normative sexual preferences has does not necessarily is not necessarily protected to be with another person of the opposite sex, but rather multiple people. It could be their family, their friends, or society in general. The first minute and a half of the video shows a man that is crying to an older man. This particular interaction could be interpreted as how many, due to heteronormativity, are “slaves” of an identity that makes them feel uncomfortable, therefore the phrase “trap in another body.” Then it shows how slowly, the person is transforming itself, by putting make up, and dressing in a more provocative way. In the part of the men, he is dressing into what, in a heterosexual society, would be considered a female outfit (make up, dress, long hair, high heels, etc). The songs goes into how the outsiders, or could be perceived as society in general, looks at the “new identity” as if was something that the’ve never seen

The song "I Hope You Dance" was written by Tia Stillers and Mark Sanders. Tia Stillers was going through a heartbreaking divorce when she co-wrote this song. She wanted to get away, so she rented a condo in Mexico. Tia was sitting on the beach reflecting the divorce, she was kept criticizing herself by saying things like I should throw myself into the ocean and become shark bait, I am worthless like a grain of sand, I should quit being a songwriter etc. This is where she got the line “ I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean”.

“I love every inch of my body don't compare me to shawty Size 7 or 11, I'm a still be a hottie”. She’s clearly saying that she doesn’t care what anyone thinks she’s still going to love herself. She only acknowledges that not every woman is like her and some of them do fall victim to this false idea of beauty set by society. “So she won't gain weight from listening to the hate

In placement my therapist would always tell me “you don’t have to try so hard.” Which is a repeated line in the song. I suppose I lost almost all hope by being the only one believing in me, I gave up trying to make everyone happy by being myself and trying to do so good. So not long after I gave up on trying to be myself I began trying to fit in and acting like everyone else. I didn’t want to just be good, I wanted to be more than good enough. I wanted to be like everybody else around me who’s life’s seemed so much more perfect than mine.

“Pretty Hurts” was created by pop icon Beyonce in 2013. Beyonce’s career started when she joined the group Destiny’s Child. She broke away from the group in 2003 to become a soloist. The song “Pretty Hurts” portrays the immense pressure females feel in our generation to be perfect. The lyrics “Perfection is the disease of a nation” and “Blonder hair, flat chest TV says bigger is better, South beach, sugar free Vogue says Thinner is better” Shows the unfair expectations put on females today by society, and it doesn't matter if you're curvy or too thin people will still judge you anyway. The song also shows the want girls feel nowadays to be perfect because of trends on social media and societal expectations with lyrics like “ But you can't

For my pet peeve essay, “The Cost of Beauty,” I chose the song “Pretty Hurts” by Beyoncé because I believe that the meaning behind this song fits perfectly with my essay. In this song, Beyoncé sings about the pressures women feel to have outer beauty. Throughout the entire music video, Beyoncé is competing in a beauty pageant, showing the viewers the extent she goes through to achieve outer beauty.

In both Beyonce’s “Pretty Hurts” and Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful”, both women talk about the importance of loving yourself as you are. In both videos, the artists show different people who are ashamed of how they look or act. The type of people in the videos are gays, people with body image issues, and even people who struggle with social acceptance. Both singers send a message that says that you should love yourself the way you are and don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise.

“Pretty Hurts” Song - Response to Text Essay Introduction The song, “Pretty Hurts” written by Sia Furler is about girls showing the pain to be perfect isn’t worth it, we should focus more on our inner beauty. An important idea in the song is that we should focus more on our inner beauty. A metaphor is used by the author to show a image in the readers head of how terrible it is to get caught up in trying to be perfect. A rhetorical question is used by the author to make the reader think, the evolution to be perfect won’t ever make them be happy with themselves, so why bother trying to fix their appearance when they should be focusing on what’s inside.

Comprehending her lyrics, one may perceive from the understanding that her intended audience is actually anyone who may be feeling the same way as her and the effect in which she wishes to have upon them is to be like her in the