Comparison of Two Different Song Lyrics

During the 1900s, passion of composing music arose and encouraged many young teens to create garage bands and elder to perceive music as career. Famous musicians like Robert Johnson, Bill Monroe, and Elvis Presley were seeking the same. Although many were composing songs, most of them adapted their own versions from many which created a list of similarities and differences between them. Most commonly similar were themes or forms yet some differentiated in delivery style or instrumentation. Many artists got more creative and used similar instruments but give a twist into the sound play. This can be seen in the script or heard in the audio of the songs “Walkin’ Blues” and “Blue Moon of Kentucky” like many others.

The evolution of the 1960s “protest song” has typically been associated with Joni Mitchell, but the expanding range of protest songs in the 1970s defines her continued presence as a leader in terms of environmental activism. More than just a vestige of the late 1960s, Mitchell continued to write protest songs long after many other artists from the 1960s had changed their lyrical content. In the “mellow turn” of early 1970s country rock and folk music, Mitchell represented a new environmental shift that moved away from the proto-typical antiwar songs of the 1960s. Mitchell, along with other musicians of this era, defined a shifting musical focus on songwriting and musical presentation during the early 1970as:

The 1960’s was an era of revolution and social change in the United States. Painters, dancers, actors, musicians and many more artists all wanted to portray societies immoral issues through their art. Musicians played a very prominent role in providing society with an outlet on the importance of this change. Within these musicians was a folk rock singer and songwriter by the name of Robert Allen Zimmerman, or as America knows him, Bob Dylan. He is known and honored around the world for his influence on popular music and culture, however, he is much more than that (Wood 313). The beginning of Bob Dylan’s career as a singer and songwriter was marked by his repetitive emphasis on social change throughout his protest songs which include “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall,” “Masters of War,” and “The Times They Are a-Changin’”; with each song, Dylan exposes many issues that affected, not one, but many lives as he aimed to spread social and political consciousness to society.

Another similarity is that the melody is repeated several times in both pieces. Yet another similarity is that both selections have moderate tempo in some parts of the pieces. One last similarity is that both selections include many major chords, meaning that the sounds tend to be

The story and the song used in this comparison are “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway and “Stronger” by Kelly Clarkson. Both of them deal with hope and strong urge of motivation. However, they deal with it in a distinctive yet a very similar way. This essay will convey the main settings, plots, and themes differences between the two pieces.

In this essay I will be critically analysing and evaluating ‘The Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers album in relation to their associated genre, their lyrics, their musical creativity, their social and political context, their overall impact on music and popular culture and

The values, beliefs, and attitudes of the Family of Woodstock have changed over 40 years. When Woodstock occurred 40 years ago rock and roll was everything. There are many changes with the youth’s trends and how they act. There are big differences between the morals and values of the young and the old today. However, they do not create conflict with the delivery of the systems. At the time when Woodstock was going on drugs and rock and roll were big. The young people thought of it as being

First, both songs are similar in some ways. Both songs might be the the same because of notes or maybe they both use instruments at the same parts of the song. Both songs use the same guitar solo. Both songs, also, use background voices. They might not be in the same parts of the song,

To compare Chuck Berry’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Music with Elvis Presley’s Hound Dog would be similar to comparing a granny smith to a golden delicious. Both are apples, and look fairly similar but have a noticeable difference in texture and taste after the first bite. With almost a decade between both songs, the exterior shows two songs which are noted as strong contributors to the genre of rock ‘n’ roll, following very similar conventions and a focus on the same audience. Yet with a keen ear some significant changes between the instruments and utilization thereof can be heard. Both songs are arguably very similar, with a few minor changes that can make a significant difference.

Some of the similarities were how the narrator explains everything that’s going on in certain parts of the story, such as the beginning. It starts with a flood. A little boy finds a mongoose and wants to hold a funeral for Rikki the mongoose.

Many say that music has evolved over the years. This essay shall explore the elements of two versions of one song. It shall discuss the correlations and disparities of these songs and confer how it has been revolutionised to entertain the audiences of today.

The two songs I have chosen to compare and contrast from each other are “Love is Strange” by Mickey and Sylvia, and “Back in Time” by Pitbull. “Love is Strange was released in 1956, while “Back in Time” was released in 2012. Sylvia and Pitbull were both simultaneously active in the music industry between 2001 and 2011. Mickey, Sylvia, and Pitbull all had a common genre in their musical career, hip hop. “Love is Strange” was featured in a major motion picture known and loved by many called Dirty Dancing.

Bob Dylan uses powerful lyrics in his song The Times They Are a-Changin’ to emphasize the need to adjust to change and to try to understand that change is inevitable and timeless. This lyric poem utilizes a rhyme scheme of ABCBDEDEFG and a trochaic meter to emphasize its central meaning. Dylan uses imagery, repetition, symbolism and many other figures of speech to convey his meaning. Dylan points out that every single person needs to be informed that change is coming and that the people need to deal with it. The song has a strong meaning that people must join in this change and stop fighting it.

Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin” is a unique song that was written in the early 1960’s during a time of political and military upheaval. The poem/song was written to influence the younger generation, and to serve as a rallying call for the people to come together to bring about a needed change. The civil rights movement was the main influence of the song but it can also be applied to the frustration, and anger the American people felt as a whole towards the Vietnam War. What truly makes the song unique is the way the song was written and its hypnotic verses that can be used to describe several different time periods where the people needed a rallying call for change. The most recent event being the war in Iraq and

“The Beatles shift towards more introspective songwriting in the 60’s would never have happened without him” [V.Bogdanov, 2002]. Artists such as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell and Tom Waits all acknowledge the profound impact Dylan had on the industry and themselves as artists. “Bob Dylan, I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. If I'd like to be anyone, it's him. And he's a great writer, true to his music and done what he feels is the right thing to do for years and years and years. He's great. He's the one I look to”. [Neil Young, 2005]. Dylan encapsulated a generations hunger for change, challenged the social and political status quo but interestingly seemingly rejected this status after receiving the ‘Tom Paine Award’ from the National Emergency and Civil Liberties Committee he drunkenly questioned the role of the committee and claimed to see something of himself and everyone in JFK’s alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald [Andrew Loog Olham, 2005]. In 1965 The Byrds cover of his song Mr. Tambourine Man helped to propel not only The Byrds to super stardom but established the folk rock genre. [V.Bogdanov, 2002]. His verbal sophistication drew comparison to the romantic poets and much literary criticism artists still strive to attain today. His launch of Theme Time Radio Hour for XM Satellite Radio helped him to establish