Goodbye Earl

They costume domestic violence by using beautiful Fox and passionate love making, to turn the violence into something almost resulting from too strong of love. Too many young men and women will find this all provocatively sexy. The video portrays the woman looking beautiful, even while being choked; the man tortured by his rage, longing for love and peace, and believing that if only the woman would behave, then the man would retreat to serenity (Meyers). This however is not the real perception people should be seeing, imagining, or believing. Abuse is not love in any shape or form, but to subjective people who don’t completely analyze the situation, it almost makes it look like in this case domestic violence can be tolerated and justified. This is not the message we should be sending to people in these types of situations or to some who may be faced with them later in life. Domestic violence is already a huge problem in today’s society. This song is not to blame for all of it, but I’m sure it add’s to the numbers involved.

As Wendy Martin says “the poem leaves the reader with painful impression of a woman in her mid-fifties, who having lost her domestic comforts is left to struggle with despair. Although her loss is mitigated by the promise of the greater rewards of heaven, the experience is deeply tragic.” (75)

The symbolism in this song is that life is hard for other members of the society. This song regards a man trying/ resolving to alter his ways before starting to change the world. This

The song consist of four stanzas: three that tell stories of people's lives, and the last a riddle which brings comedy into the song. In the first stanza we are introduced to Cyrus Jones. "Cyrus Jones 1810 to 1913,/ made his great grandchildren believe you could live to 100 and 3/ a 100 and 3, is forever when you're just a little kid so/ Cyrus Jones lived forever. " The second stanza allows us to meet Muriel Stonewall. She lived 51 years and during those years in her life, was forced to send her sons off in World War II, and then bury them. By the time we are introduced to Mickey Carson, the melody and voice in the song are increased, which intensifies the listener's curiosity of what the narrator is talking about. Mickey Carson rode his bike and longed to be like Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeze, he died at 62.

This stanzas opening “Now I’ve found a quilt I’d like to die under” is a small change in tone but it is not minor in scope. The slight change from a calm nostalgia to more exited nostalgia is very important resulting in a change of diction. The narrator begins to describe the quilt with phrases that contain allusions to her past like “the yellowbrown of Mama’s cheeks”. The change of tones impetus fuels these allusions which attribute to the complex meaning of the century quilt that family is the blanket of life which keeps one safe through the darkness(night). The immense amount of illusions continue on into the third stanza strengthening the complex meaning. Whilst being the longest paragraph the third paragraph is also a hive of hidden meanings with allusions to the future and of what’s to come of the quilt. The most essential part of this paragraph is the use of the word “dreams” and

In the final stanza, he makes the reader sad as he assumes the inevitable will happen and she will die. He expresses this through metaphors such as a “black figure in her white cave”, which is a reference to the bright white hospital rooms and although he is the black figure he thinks she just sees a shadow which could be the grim reaper or even death himself, coming to end her journey. No one wants to deal with the sorrow of losing a loved one for good, as

The lyrics gather the attention of those African-Americans enduring racial discrimination to be prepare for a change, “You will not be able to stay home/brother/You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out”(lines 1-2).It feels like the Heron is conveying a sign of desperation to those listeners.Unity is essential for everyone who happens to

The music and lyrics of the song simultaneously start, creating a feeling of hurriedness, and not leaving any time for the listener to think about the music and the feeling it creates on its own. This reflects the lifestyle teenage boys were thrown into upon the entrance of high school and their rushed, and somewhat forced, decision to join the Panther football team. Halfway through the song, the music becomes

Set in the American South, the song “Goodbye, Earl,” written by Dennis Linde and performed by the Dixie Chicks, is a comedic story of vengeance and retribution. Best friends throughout high school, Wanda and Mary Anne part ways after graduation, but eventually meet back up to murder Earl, the abusive husband of Wanda. Using double entendres, strong imagery, and a light tone, Linde and the Dixie Chicks conveyed the strength of Southern women through their song, but also created controversy with a divisive music video.

Sheer funk. Great beat, brass and sax all align together to call us to “that man,” that invisible man in the square with the sign asking for donations. The bluesy “Bad News” takes a different tact with a great introduction of xylophone and percussion with the melody being carried by guitar. Oh and the bad news has arrived, it’s closing time. “Put on your armor/march yourself in line/swallow all your feelings…” as the sax wails out our sorrow. That same playful attitude of a loss of bar time comes into a moment evoking how we’re sometimes marginalized even when we’re blissfully ignorant. She don’t know that full effect she has on guys and the marginalizing cat calls of those same

Mixed martal arts helped me put my anger to use for good, but it also created a whole new side of me and is the reason to this day i will never put my gloves back on even though the rush of adrenalin it shot through me like someone jabbed with an adrenaline shot right to their heart. To this day when im angry enough or somethig hits me in the face or the wrong way i snap into a blackout stage asif i was a druken alcoholic, but still coherent with no control over myself, the anger takes over my body instantly. It terrifies me everyday, it even prevents me from participating in my favorite sports like football or anything involving injury. This song really reflects my anger and shows me that i may not be th only one out there that can't control a side of them that is ugly. It really gives me hope that one day i may be able to control myself and go back to enjoying things that i

This song was made to inform listeners on a few of the struggles immigrants and refugees face. In an interview M.I.A stated that the song was about people “...appearing really threatening to society. But not being so. Because, by the time you've finished working a 20-hour shift, you're so tired you just want to get home to the family. I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.".

Her first line reveals that the following emotional breakdown is a result of standing by as an opportunity comes and goes (Jones qtd. in Kimbrough). Jones wishes that she could go back and make a different decision, but it is too late. The speaker proceeds to lament the missed chance with a lover, her regret made evident in the repeated line, “ I don’t know why I didn’t come” (Jones qtd. in Kimbrough). Presented simultaneously with the text, the song strengthens the idea that failing to take action leads to sorrow.

This song shows their lifestyle once Ill died, also painting their values as shallow. Guellen may have become richer because of their decision, but their integrity ended up

It is shocking really that a song that promotes date rape and objectifies women is even permitted to play on the radio. The argument, of course, is that the song does not affiliate itself at all with the subject of rape, and that people who take offence are, in fact, simply reading too much into the lyrics.. This notion is outrageous. Even if the song was not intended to have this sort of content no one can deny that the is little to dispute when deciphering the meaning behind *these lyrics: