Michael Jackson Thriller Song Interpretation

The song "Man in the Mirror" by Michael Jackson reflects his views on the social issues and encourages social change.Born in 1958 in Gary, Indiana, Michael Jackson became the lead singer of the popular group, the Jackson 5 at such a young age. He went on to a solo career of extraordinary success. The “ King of Pop” with ought a question reached the pinnacle of success when he delivered the best-selling album in history. Micheal had two awful short marriages but they lead him to have 3 beautiful children who were ususally hid from the public eye. Unfortunately, In the 1990’s the down fall of being a famous legend had caught up with Micheal. His physical appearance began to change drastically, and his behavior grew extremely bizarre, making him a perfect target for media. Sadly, on 25 June 2009, Jackson suffered cardiac arrest in his Los Angeles home and passed away.

The authors use the same type of figurative language in all three stories. “Sleepy Hollow”, “The Minister’s Black Veil”, and “The Devil and Tom Walker”, all three use imagery. The use of imagery is used throughout the stories to comprehend the setting, mood, and to get across the personality of the characters.

Chris Brown who is known to be a multi- platinum talent R&B and Pop artist in the music industry. When I first heard “Autumn Leaves” that debut on 9/6/16 by Chris Brown featuring Kendrick Lamar, I knew that there was a meaning behind what was being said in this song. Kendrick Lamar is known to be poetic in his music and that he speaks directly to his audience. Chris Brown is known to go through break ups, and most music artist tells a story through their music. Autumn Leaves stood out, due to the fact the autumn stands for “fall”. During the Fall season the leaves beginnings to gets old and fall off. This song spoke about how easy it is for a relationship to fall apart and not know where your heat lays with that special person anymore.

Visualizing the scene of this tragedy proved to be an effect strategy Beller used to illustrate his tone. The visualizations the author provides generates the specific ideas Beller wants his readers to recognize: “The whole street paused, froze, screamed, and some people broke into tears, many people brought their hands up to their mouths, everyone was momentarily frozen, except for the ashen guy, who just kept walking¨ (Beller, 62). This perception of the crowd creates an image in readers minds. With that image accepted, readers can more fully grasp Bellerś chaotic tone.

“Strawberry Spring” offers the reader an opportunity to “show that we are not afraid” of facing our fears (King, “Why We Crave” 1). After all, anyone who has heard of Stephen King will automatically know that reading one of his stories may result in a thrill. For example, near the beginning of the narrator’s encounter, “a junior named John Dancey” happened upon a “dead girl lying in a shadowy corner of the Animal Sciences parking lot” (King, “Strawberry Spring” 2). Accordingly, the explicitly specific imagery used to reveal the brutality of Gale Cerman’s death is quite unsettling! Most of us spend our entire lives avoiding our “hysterical fear” of death, and allowing us to read such a description is “daring [our] nightmares” (King, “Why We Crave” 1). “Strawberry Spring” fulfills Stephen King’s claim that one reason we watch and read horror is to show “that we are not afraid” (1).

The song chosen is “Thriller”, and it was performed and partially written by Michael Jackson. The lyrics in this song have many poetic elements that make it such a diverse and interesting song to listen to. “Thriller”, has at minimum 10 poetic elements, but here are three-four major elements that emphasize the poetic merit in this song.

Music allows an artist to give those whose voice may not be loud enough to be heard. Their music can cover any issue of poverty, discrimination, segregation, people of color, oppression, and etc. The lyrics are the key part to get any point across but also any footage that accompanies gives the viewer more of an insight into these issues. Many artist/bands like Bob Dylan, Fort Minor, Joyner Lucas, Hurray for the Riff Raff, and Michael Jackson address many issues the class talked about and the point of view of those who are viewed as minorities. The music these artists and bands produce gives the listener an idea of what exactly is happening in the world and what has happened. Each song individually covers the importance that we, as humans, must change the way we think and act and listen to the problems others have and even if it does not affect us.

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.

to music critics Jackson’s album Thriller seemed to be inspired by “a mixture of several genres

What is the meaning of music? Do they help send a message, or is it just something to dance to? This song sends out one of the most meaningful things that the world has finally realized is something we need to consider, being equal.“They don’t really care about us” by Michael Jackson symbolizes black people being just as equal as white people. In the song it states many things that helped me find out what this song actually meant. It wasn’t hard trying to figure out because the whole song is basically talking about what they did to blacks or how they treated them. I picked piece by piece the song and how it helps send out a message. I’m going to talk about how this song is actually meaningful and actually symbolizes something.

While analyzing this song, it is clear it is about the suicides of nine teenage members of the LGBT community. The first line “bang, bang go the coffin nails, like a breath exhaled, then gone forever” leaves a very clear image of a burial. Most specifically the burial of a suicide, which is hinted at with the line “how did I miss the red flags raised?”.

Michael wrote this song on how he felt about racism and how it had affected and the people around him. In the song he states that he was “Tired of the Devil” and in that situation I think the devil he was talking about is racisms and how he was tired of the devil winning. He also stated “If your thinking of being my brother it don’t matter if your black or white” meaning he didn’t care about what color you were he was going to accept you for you and that color had nothing to do with it. His main purpose for this song was basically to state that He doesn’t care about the color of someone’s skin, but what he does care about is their character. In 1995 Michael also wrote a song titled “ They Don’t Really Care About Us” also had the same meaning as others, saying that the government doesn’t really care about is human beings.

Besides all the foul language, Eminem’s depressing song has a deep message to it. I can relate it to it besides the fact he talks about him overcoming his drug addiction. The song talks about depression and eventually by the end of the song he talks about expressing optimism and hope for a better future. Em says that as a kid , moving school to school, he would try to blend in with the room and try to seek extra attention to be that cool kid. Unfortunately, I could relate to him. As a kid I would always try blend in with everyone. I would go as far as trying to make fool out of myself to try to seek that extra attention. But as I started getting older, I started to realize that all of it wasn’t worth trying to seek attention. Anyways, in the

The song reveals many perspectives values such as my cultural, my beliefs, and my identity. For, example, people normally like a music video that does not include violent, people feel not so violent and not so stress when watching people with drug or they are a gangster. The hatred of this song identifies me as a challenge,

When I listen to this song it gives a sense of hope, hope that everything will be alright. The songs sends out a powerful message that anyone and everyone can help and make a difference in the world. The style of this song is so powerful it’s an eclectic style of many incredible genres such as; gospel, rock, hip-hop, R&B etc. many of the famous artists of this song were called the United Support Of Artists for Africa, despite their musical differences came together and created a moving and inspirational meaningful song. That touched millions around the world, even today it’s still an iconic song to plenty such as myself connected to the world through those powerful lyrics, when Jackson wrote, “