Kehlani Parrish Analysis

Throughout the song, the story creates emotional appeal with the use of bystanders. The bystander mentioned in verse two is, “The teacher wonders, but she doesn’t ask/ It’s hard to see the pain behind the mask” (lines 5-6). The teacher’s reaction is a common experience for many adults because most adults assume the child is not abused if he or she appears okay. Another bystander mentioned is, “Somebody cries in the middle of the night/ The neighbors hear, but they turn out the light” (15-16). Since the bystander ignores her plea for help, the audience develops sympathy for her because the girl is helpless. Sympathy is the main objective of these lyrics, and if the audience has compassion for the young girl, they might take action instead of being bystanders. Through emotional appeals, the underlying message of these lyrics attempts to persuade the listeners not to be complacent as bystanders. The artist uses music to evoke people’s emotion because most people listen and relate to music. The article “Martina McBride Finds Additional Voices to Express Herself Ahead of Show in North Myrtle Beach” mentions, “Raising awareness, she [Martina McBride] said, ‘makes you feel something as an individual to make a difference, and we all appreciate that’” (Palisin). When bystanders take action, they can prevent an abusive situation and raise more awareness.

All her memories of the night before are starting to come back to her. The line “It’s not enough to face your own regrets” (line 7) alludes to things she may have said or done and now wishes she could take it back. She is remembering the words that she spoke. Or could this be the words that someone else said to her? (Though they’re coming back fast, the things you said)” (line 8). The words that were said and the actions that were done start to come back into focus and the speaker is left to wallow in her remorse. She realizes the words and actions are not something that can be taken back. All the speaker can do is clean up the messes that has been made, think about the words that were spoken and how they led to the end of her

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

Listening to Kelly Clarkson sing “It’s Quiet Uptown” is heart-wrenching; she conveys so much emotion with her voice that it compounds the meaning of the words. She was pregnant with her own son when she was asked to cover the song for the Hamilton Mixtape, and she put emotion about the “unimaginable” idea of losing a child into her rendition of it (Dinh). Although she changed a few words to make the song more her own, Clarkson held true to the original message of the song.

At Aaliyah’s funeral everyone is crying, sobbing, or they have this look like they just lost something they loved. Which was true because everyone loved Aaliyah, her voice, her character, her everything. Everyone’s watching her parents as they see their daughter for the last time. Missy Elliot sings a song and the press were shock at the famous guest who came to say their last goodbye’s, some of them being Jay-Z, R.Kelly, Diamond Dash, and many more. Aaliyah was one in a million and she left a mark on this world that can never be

“Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out” talks about relationships in the song. She explains how most people only like you for what you have but when you lose that, then you lose your so called friends.

Welterweight champion Benny Paret was renowned for his ability to receive a hit, and had taken years of punishment in order to obtain his championship. Yet he proved, he was the greatest every time he stepped in the ring. However, all good things will come to an end. In the past two years, the fifteen round fights began to destroy his body. Eventually, it all would result in a tragic end. As the story draws to a close, the genre and the theme unfold. It becomes clear the author is emotionally invested, which allows for an in depth and personal view of the story. In the end, we are able to relate more than one would simply assume, and the lesson we learn is we are not the gods we all attempt to be.

After the death of her husband, Joe, she feels free. She was controlled by her husband. Before Joe was alive he wkkklouldn’ t let her hair down. He didn't want men to see

Within the first two verses of the song, this young woman presents an issue that is all too common for many people. She has big dreams and wants to make a name for herself, but to succumb to making that dream a reality, she would have to desert the loved ones that have made

When she realizes her imperfections are valuable, she has a whole new outlook on her life, which fills her with hope and motivates her to become a better version of herself. The tone in this song reflects a feeling of being content with one's self-image because she finally wonders "why [should she] waste a second not loving who [she is] (Bedingfield 10)? This realization is what brings her out of her depression, concerning what she looks like, to the decision of embracing her appearance because she is beautiful no matter what society

She has no one, except for Taylor, when they met, they discovered that they were going through the same experiences. Each with no one to rely on each other. Since each of them were both abandoned by a male role in their life after they would go through life like they were family.

Another idea that interested me in the song was the idea of losing someone close to you. Chris demonstrates this idea by singing “And the tears come streaming down your face; When you lose something you can’t replace;When you love someone but it goes to waste.” These lyrics show us the anguish and pain of losing someone you love. The line “tears come streaming down your face” emphasizes the greiving as people will cry and feel misery from losing someone close to them. He then goes on to say “When you lose

The last two lines represent the woman acknowledging the fact that many women before her have gone through this same experience. Time is is “rolled” or repeated in the sense that everyone was brought to this world in the same way. Line nine refers to the child having no awareness of itself or the world around it. The woman has created a life and that life has no idea that it is loved by her. The emotional connection between the mother and her child is developing on a deeper level.

The book “Still Alice” by Lisa Genova has many text to text connections with Adele’s song, “Hello”. This song released in 2015, talks about the issue of passing of loved ones. In the first verse, when Adele sang, “[t]hey say that time’s supposed to heel ya, [b]ut I ain’t done much healing”, relates to how Alice feels towards the losses of her family members. While she believed that she had done mourning over the loss of her family when “[s]he hadn’t shed a single tear …and [the] loss she felt for her mother and sister had long been tempered by time”, in reality she was never ready to overcome this situation as later she began to cry, and the situation again seemed as “explosive and anguished” as the first time (Genova 77). This quote supports

All of the songs on this album relay different messages to listeners. Most songs contain a lot of pathos, call to action and more. Pathos is really prominent in certain songs such as Sorry, Formation, and Freedom. An excerpt from Sorry says: “Now you want to say you 're sorry/Now you want to call me crying/Now you gotta see me wildin '/Now I 'm the one that 's lying/And I don 't feel bad about it/It 's exactly what you get.” This displays the emotions after getting out of a relationship or during the struggles of it. Other lyrics from this song that display this