Hotline Bling Drake Analysis

“Pip pip da doodley doo” (Drake Parker). In Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh, two teenagers with opposite personalities must learn to live under the same roof. Drake is a cool, good looking, slightly daft, guitar playing, ladies man who plays by his own rules while Josh is the dorky, clumsy, responsible one. The two must learn how to get along when Drake’s mom falls in love with and marries Josh’s dad in the first episode. The rest of the series consists of the duo’s wacky misadventures. Meanwhile, Drake’s mischievous little sister, Maegan, plays pranks on the two in a constant attempt to make their lives miserable. The genre of the show is situational comedy (sitcom) and its target audiences are preteens and younger

In the past decade, Drake happens to be the most successful and influential hiphop artist to have originated from Canadian soil. Born in Toronto, Drake resonates his feelings of the city and his upbringing in his albums which reflect a very different past when compared to traditional or even modern-day rap artists. In the context of this paper, Drake’s album which was released in September 2013 called “Nothing Was The Same” will be examined. The album consists of thirteen songs with an additional two bonus songs. While critically analyzing the album, it has a very clear reflection of Drake’s past and it is his rendition of what he went through and what has eventually led to his successful stature as it stands today.

Robin Thicke’s music video to his song “Blurred Lines” avidly contributes to the patriarchy, while portraying sexism, gender standards, and beauty standards. His music video can be analyzed from a feminist theory approach, as it’s evident that his song and video contribute to a patriarchal society and its inherently sexist and sexualized ideologies. The ideology behind the song and music video is purely sexual and about male dominance. The lyrics to the song and actions in the video exhibit extreme over sexualization and objectification of the women. Analyzing this piece of popular culture through a feminist approach opens up a provoking conversation about how popular culture functions in a patriarchal culture. Analyzing pop culture though a feminist theory can allow for a larger variety and more in-depth analysis about the social aspects and political agenda within popular culture.

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In this song, Chance the Rapper states he wants to be an independent musician. He is sick and tired of today’s music industry treating music as a way to make money. Nowadays, almost all of the musicians are signed by record labels and forced to make music for the money purpose. However, Chance The Rapper wants to be a true artist and has entire freedom to follow his heart to make music just like his predecessors did decades ago. He respects to the old generation artists and the freedom of music creation, so he decides to be an independent musician and make this song to tell people that he won’t join any record label.

Have you ever heard about how an artist gets his work copied by another artist? It could either be a popular artist who has their work plagiarized by another lesser-known artist.

In the 2015 kendrick Lamar song “u”. Kendrick describes the feelings that constantly haunt his heart and the guilt he carries everyday. Reflecting on his darkest moments, lingering pain and the details of his depression. The song “u” by kendrick uses literary tools like Soliloquy and Conflict to show how built up guilt leads to his prolonged depression.

Everyone is tempted by sex, drugs, easy money and the power generated from violence and vengeance. The film “Boyz N the Hood” follows Tre, who moves to a neighborhood in the socioeconomically disadvantaged South Central with his father and becomes involved with new friends. The movie best portrays how being of low socioeconomic status during that time had a devastating effect on an adolescents development. For many young people during that era, the future is a day that never came.

Boyz N the Hood (1991) tells the story of three young African-American boys, Trey, Ricky and Doughboy, growing up in a lower-class neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. The movie is based off the life o a young black man living with his mom and moving to Watts, California to live with his dad. The movie brings friendship, parenthood, violence, and revenge into one concept of how parts of the country are.

Music is a very good thing for people because it can sometimes calm a person down and make them feel happy. Music is a good way to express one’s feelings in a positive way. Sometimes people use it for good reasons and sometimes bad reasons. I chose to write about the song “Hotline Bling” by Drake for my project. I think this song shows the emotion of sadness and depression.

Almost twenty-five years after the film’s theatrical release in 1991, the significance and importance of Boyz n the Hood is incalculable. The film continues to be one of the most realistic portrayals of life as a young African-American male growing up in South Central Los Angeles during the 1990s. It presents inner city Los Angeles in non-biased, true to life manner. Only few films after have tried to take this innovative approach, all not receiving the success and lasting impact of Boyz n the Hood. The film uses this to its advantage to realistically investigate issues of race, violence, and other hardships in Los Angeles ghettos.

Is Vanilla Ice's song “Ice, Ice, Baby” an example of plagiarism? Of course, it is, and Robert Matthew Van Winkle, who known professionally as Vanilla Ice knows it. Vanilla Ice became famous for a while, not because of his talent, but because of the copyright of someone else baseline. Some people said that since the words were not the same, then it wasn't plagiarism. It was just an artist sampling another artist's music which happens all the time. To me, I believe that this is an example of plagiarism. Vanilla Ice can't go and change one beat in someone's music and call it new and original without giving the person any credit. He thought changing the rhythm of David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” baseline and not giving him credit would avoid him from any trouble. Vanilla Ice song “Ice, Ice, Baby” is an example of plagiarism, with evidence and proves that it was a number one hit just because it was based on the baseline of "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie.

Throughout the beginning of the 1991 film, Boyz N the Hood, it is clear how difficult it is for children and adolescence to not fall under the cycle of gangs and violence. Once Tre moves in with his father there are ground rules put into place to help him understand his responsibilities and not fall into the same routine as his friends. Tre’s father tries to tell him about how to respect all “brothers” and don’t talk about them in a negative way. However, it is shown that no matter the skin color of an individual, there is hostility and judgment for all within the black community. We were able to see this with the actions from the black officer throughout the film.

In my opinion, Kendrick Lamar, an award-winning rapper and songwriter, has one of the best abilities to describe his distressed and abused lifestyle in Compton, California. He is not your original cliché artist who does not speak about anything meaningful. Kendrick, also known as K. Dot, is one of the most well known and most respected rappers in this era. Not only does he speak about his gloomy past, but he also speaks about his fortunate future. His ability to give detailed representations of his struggles and his story telling allows me to, metaphorically, enter the mind of Kendrick Lamar.

‘I make money moves,’ Cardi says in her song Bodak Yellow. Welp, not everyone agrees that this song made all of the money moves that it could have. Social media, as it does, began criticizing the artist, Cardi B, for not securing an endorsement from Christian Louboutin before giving them so much love in her song. Here are a few things about this. Many artists shot out brands that they love simply because they love them.