The music video for "Lay Me Down" by Sam Smith shows how everyone will be stricken with grief after losing a loved one sometime in their life. The video starts out at a funeral and no music is playing. Smith is pictured in front of a casket at the front of a church standing completely still, ridden with grief. When the song begins, it is very slow paced. The people in the church can be viewed behind Smith, holding candles while trying to control their emotions. As Sam Smith walks out of the church, the video flashes back to a time of happiness. Smith appears to be saying his vows to his fiancée as they were getting married. Everyone at the wedding is dressed in all white, making the emotions seem much happier. All of the people are smiling, clapping, and having a good time. The video then reverts back to the church where the music and lyrics slow down again, showing the emotion in the song and Smith is seen alone bowing his head in the …show more content…
At the beginning of the song, not much is going on. The video begins with strong piano chords being played alone while Smith is in the church. When the wedding scene is going on, the music is lighter and there are violins playing a higher note making the feeling of that part of the video and song less depressing and sad. Also, it appears that the lyrics being sung are actually the vows that Smith is saying to his soon partner, "Can I lay by your side, next to you, you / And make sure you're alright / I'll take care of you" (stanza 2, lines 3-5). When everyone is cheering at the wedding, the beat picks up and strong piano chords begin again, almost to show that after the good times, bad times were still yet to come. The beat is still fairly fast when the priest is shown walking through the church, but slows down when Smith is shown sitting in the church pew. He sings the last few lyrics of the song, then bows his head, grieving his
Luke Bryan who started his singing career at age fourteen chooses specific words to indicate the time period and makes it clear to identify the genre in his popular song “Play It Again” released in 2013. The repletion but also his way of saying certain words makes this song special and is straightforward for college students to understand poetry. In this song Luke Bran spots a tan legged girl who he finds attractive. Luke the instantly assumes she is taken because of her beauty. As they begin to carry on a conversation a song comes on she gets excited because her favorite song comes on and before he asked her to dance she took his hand and danced with him until the song cut off.
Dave Matthews Band’s album Crash was their second major-label release and debatably one of their most popular albums, as well. The band is made up of multiple brilliant musicians consists of the violinist Boyd Tinsley, carter Beauford the drummer, Dave Matthews the main singer, as well as, guitarist, bassist Stefan Lessard, and finally Leroi Moore playing the saxophone (Dmb Tour Members). Dave Matthews Band was started in early 1991 and has only grown bigger and better throughout the years making them a statement band in our society. The twelve song album bounces from upbeat to mellow songs in a perfect blend that fits together so outstandingly.
Have you ever felt the feeling of never being loved? $uicideboy$ talk about killing themselves in the song “Leave Your Things Behind II.” Their music represents the rap genre, which is both hype and depressing rap. Not being loved can can hurt someone, it can drive someone to kill themselves. As rapped about in their song, $uicideboy$, along with others, express their feelings and their problems in their genre of music.
Music has played a large role in my life for some time, now. My musical interests vary, greatly as I try to appreciate each and every song equally. I believe this because I know that each artist creates this work of art which takes a great deal of time and effort. With that being said my ten songs, for the most part, a bit different from one another, but they are each very special to me in their own way. I would place these songs in the ‘indie’ category. My older sisters introduced me to this genre of music at a young age. I appreciate them for this because I would not listen or know the songs I cherish now, without them exposing it to me. I chose these songs because of that reason. Both of my sisters, Cristine and Gabriela, have been great
The artist chooses an upbeat and happy tempo that repeats throughout the song. He chooses this repeating tempo to draw the listener’s attention to the lyrics of the song. The slow, yet happy tempo paired with the artists bright and cheery voice creates a sense of ease and happiness within the song itself, and the audience.
Artists that in the song Juke Jam are The creator Chance the Rapper featuring Justin Bieber and Towkio. Chance The Rapper is a ???. Justin Bieber sings Tenor and Towkio sings….
Throughout the video, various groups of young people are shown laughing and dancing, but those joyful shots are interspersed with a couple that appears visibly upset and uncomfortable. While the upbeat guitars and synths of “Playing Fair” make the song seem happy on the surface, the lyrics tell another story - one that is relatively somber. Rapid switching between scenes of the happy, youthful teenagers and the upset couple really tugs at two distinct messages contained within the song - and Zachary Parks captures them so eloquently, but so
In most relationships sex is an essential and expected part, even for teenagers. Many teen relationships are subjected to the scrutiny of their peers on whether or not they are “getting some”. This stanza is ironic because in the beginning it says how dumb the questions about “getting some” are, yet at the end it talks about doing just that.
The piece of art I chose is is a song that I listened to a lot as a kid and still listen to today. The melodies and instruments transcend the lyrics. However , the lyrics hold so much more. I lived on a fire station as a kid when this song came out. Actually it was a tape in 1985. I thought because of the association with my dad being gone on fires all the time, that this song “The Working Hour,” related to him and his need to be away working on fires all the time. As an adult, I still feel those feelings as I did when I was 7 yrs old, however now I am the one working. I do the same job, and the working hour means something more to me now then it did when I was a kid waiting for my father to return from fires. This was a time when work to
I have chosen a song entitled “Penthouse Cloud” sung by the band “The Internet” which was released in 2015. Based on the lyrics, there are a lot of significant linguistic foregrounding included in the song using the techniques of parallelism and deviation.
The Vietnam war was a major event to America because it had major conflicts with personal opinions of the people of 1960’s. In this era, plenty of people were rethinking on why they were fighting in a war that they did not need to be fighting. and joined the anti-war movement. This can explicitly be seen from the type of music that people were listening to at the time. The song that I am going to be analyzing is “Paint it Black” by the Rolling Stones. This song resonated with the persona of the people for multiple reasons because it was a song that was about losing a loved one and dealing with the sadness.
A person’s heartbeat changes to mimic the music they listen to. Different types of music portray an emotion or specific memory of an individual. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe is a story of pre-colonial times in the Niger villages. The protagonist’s, Okonkwo, ideals of masculinity are challenged by various forms of misfortune portrayed through the music in his community, Gbo. The music highlights the key points of Okonkwo's village and culture as it looks ahead at the disintegration of their values, because there is no longer a harmony between the flute and drums.
The question this paper seeks to answer- Or rather – the topic this paper will attempt to flesh out is how “Rock and Roll Music” has affected, or been affected (by) Social Change or Social Movements. Perhaps the most notable examples of how music has been inextricably linked to the social-political climate of this country, would be The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.
Evanescence is an American rock band known for song, Bring Me to Life. Bring Me to Life is a song about being lost and in a state of depression until you find that one person to break you out of that sad state. This song was inspired by the lead singer’s, Amy Lee’s, husband. She says that when she first met her husband that he could somehow see inside of her and bring her to life when at the time she was going though a hard time (Edwards, Evanescence’s Amy Lee: how we made Bring Me to Life).
Woltz wakes up and starts to notice the blood's pool on his bed, the speed at which the beats pass (tempo) gets faster and higher and the overall rhythm of the music becomes gradually strong and reaches its top when Mr. Woltz sees the horse head ,that was first presented in the movie as one of the best racehorses in the world, on his bed(00:31:42-00:32:11). The use of the non-diegetic music in this shot imparts a mood, atmosphere and emotional climate of horror and fear to the viewer.