Miley Cyrus's Song 'Wrecking Ball'

In Katy Perry’s song “Roar,” she inspires several to stand up for what they believe in and not let other people push them down. It is trying to motivate people to come back as a better and stronger person and be proud of who you are. The lyrics in this song are very inspirational considering the fact that they are trying to explain that you don’t have to be afraid of other people and know that you are an excellent person. We should be proud of who we are and accept the fact that we are going to get pushed down by other people, but we are able to come back as a stronger person. Sometimes you are going to be beaten down by someone, but you have to prove to them that you are not going to accept those actions and revive as a different person.

Has the criminal justice system always been unfair to minorities? Lauryn Hill, a famous songwriter talks about several things that opened the eyes of citizens everywhere across this nation in her album MTV Unplugged No. 2.0. In her song, “Mystery of Iniquity” she exposes the unjust court system and how everyone plays a part. The word iniquity means immoral unfair behavior. In the song Lauryn is trying to understand the meaning of the unfair behavior by the criminal justice system. She released this album in 2001, and she was not wrong for publicizing her views on this masterpiece of an album. We tend to forget that under President Clinton’s term, he enforced the 3 strikes and you're out policy, which placed more African American men in person for using crack cocaine than ever before. In the early 2000s, African Americans made up nearly 80% of a prison's population due to the federal crack cocaine laws and they also served more time in prison for drug offenses than their white counterparts. However, during this time period more than 67% (⅔) of crack cocaine users were either white or Hispanic.

This song is all about Taylor convincing her crush that she is better for him than his current girlfriend. In this line, Taylor mainly talks about the boy’s current girlfriend and all the qualities that make it sound like she’s wrong for him. In this part of the song she mainly uses pathos to sway the judgement of the boy and more importantly, her fans listening to the song. Pathos is very important when trying to convince people because humans tend to concentrate on the emotional aspect of things. Especially when it comes to music. Using pathos, Taylor is able to stir up negative emotions about the complaining girlfriend right at the beginning of the song. At the last part of the line, she also uses pathos to show the contrast between her

The song tells of an emotional breakup and the emotions shown in the song are sadness and anger. After the breakup, she emotionally was torn apart and continuously will want him. Miley Cyrus shows credibility by being who she is as a much known singer. The sound of the song automatically starts with high and fast beats which sets the intense scene for the song. By the middle of the song, the sound drops to a much slower beat but then back up for the final chorus. “Wrecking Ball” was written to the guy who caused her to feel the way she did. In the first line of the song, she uses the words “clawed” and “chained” which are not normal words used for people in a relationship. She then says she fell under his “spell” meaning that she was into the relationship more of then him. She also relate the death of their relationship to “we’re ashes in the ground.” Within the entire song when she sung the word “wreck,” it was emphasized and had a longer beat. The last two lines of “Wrecking Ball” was “yeah, you, you wreck me,” repeated twice also for emphasis. The music video begins the song zoomed into Miley Cyrus’ face almost like looking into her and her feelings. By the second chorus and the increased beat she begins swinging on a ball, creating a visual of her feelings and her literally coming in like a wrecking ball and breaking his

One of Jay–Z’s most iconic songs from the album The Blueprint is “Song Cry”– in which he chronicles the beginning and ending of a serious relationship. Rather than focus on trying to fix the relationship or put all the blame on the other person involved like most breakup songs, “Song Cry” allows Jay-Z to accept the tragic end and reflect on his own mistakes that lead to it. In a way, “Song Cry” allows him to admit to being responsible for the lasting pain of a failed relationship while at the same time catering to his pride by deflecting his own emotions. Levitin supports this idea on page 177: “ We write them to encode lessons that we’ve learned and don’t want to forget, often using metaphor or devices to raise the message up to the level

Every song can make one feel the emotion of the song. Depending on the song whether it is “Before He Cheats” or “Just A Dream” will show different emotions. In the song “Before He Cheats,” “I took a Louisville Slugger to both headlights, a hole in all 4 tires… Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats.” This emotion you can say is anger, she is also heartbroken but past the crying and sad part of it but to the point of anger and hatred. This song can really get you pumped up and hating all the cheaters in the world. In the song “Just A Dream” her emotion starts out somewhat happy, “It was two weeks after the day she turned eighteen, All dressed in white, Going to the church that night, She had his box of letters in the passenger seat, Sixpence in a shoe,

Just like Taylor Swift's song, it started off with a blank space, 5 blank spaces.

These lyrics show the protagonist experiencing an emotional twister which leads to many different feelings, one of them being pain. At many times in the story, Squeaky has to endure a similar pain inside her head. A quote that best shows this is:

When I first started to read “The New Misandry” I thought I was not going to like it. I was immediately turned off by the use of this word because it has such a powerful social stigma. As I read more closely I appreciated her message a great deal more. I particularly liked the section where she argues that “…hurting people makes them angry, anger turns to hate when the anger is chronic and accompanied by helplessness, and although you can bully or shame people into not showing their anger, the only way to stop the anger is to stop the hurt”(Russ 169). This reminded me of “The Uses of Anger” by Audre Lorde. Tactically, I do think angry can be tool for change, but I disagree that Misandry could be a productive label to use. I can see why some people would hate men, but that does not mean I think it is healthy the person harboring all of that hatred. I want to turn to the idea of hating Patriarchy, but I’m not sure if I am simply falling into the trap that Russ talks about at the end. Am I accepting the idea of oppression only on the condition that the real ugly effects are ignored (Russ 170)? This is possibly

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

Beyonce uses pathos, the first of the three appeals in her song by using very descriptive phrases. When she states, “I’d listen to her, `cause I know how it hurts,” Beyonce is telling her audience that she understands what it is like to be hurt, and that if she were a boy, she would treat her women better because she could understand where she was coming from. This tugs at the listener’s heart because you can see that she has been emotionally hurt from a past relationship. Also, many people can relate to what she is disclosing. It is human nature for people to get emotionally damaged in a relationship and therefore her feelings are empathized. She also uses syntax by the way she orders her words by telling a story. If the song was not in story form, it would not produce the great impact that it does.

“Little Toy Guns” by Carrie Underwood is a song about a girl listening to her parents arguing. The girl wishes the words they spoke to each other did not hurt each other’s feelings. The speaker wishes words were like toy guns that leave no scars. The speaker wishes words that were meant to hurt people could instead be like toy guns.

I love Tracy Chapmin’s song, Fast Car, is an emotional song about a woman who grew up in poverty and seeks a better life. We are told the women’s mother ran away leaving her to have to take care of an alcoholic father, and all she wants to do is get far away from her past. She dreams of a better life where her boyfriend/husband will take her away in his fast car. We can see things don’t turn out the way she had hoped in the lines, `I know things will get better, you'll find work... we'll move out of this shelter...'.

Mitchell Kimbrough’s “Sky” shows how life will pass one by. People oftentimes fail to make decisions or pursue dreams, but life does not wait for them nor run in reverse. The words and images of the poem, combined with the lyrics of Norah Jones’s “Don’t Know Why,” somberly explore the regret of missed opportunities as time passes.

First, the music video connects with teen girls by using lyrics that question staying in these harmful relationships. Shawn Mendes sings, “And you’re spending all your time in this wrong situation”, to motivate teen girls not to waste their time in those harmful relationships. These motivating lyrics help to encourage teenage girls to remove themselves from these relationships. When Shawn Mendes sings about how she should not waste her time in the wrong relationship, it encourages teen girls to get out of those bad relationships. Second, the music video relates to teen girls by using touching lyrics so that teenage girls realize the harmful relationships, they are in. Shawn Mendes sings the words, “But I can see it on your face when you say that he’s the one that you want”, as encouragement for teen girls to do what they want and leave a relationship if they feel unsafe or do not want to be part of it. Again, these compassionate lyrics inspire teen girls to disconnect harmful relationships, because that is what they should want. When Shawn Mendes sings about how it is obvious that the girl feels unhappy in the situation, it relates to other teen girl’s emotions and interests them to leave those situations. Through the use of concerning lyrics, of questioning and emotion the music video encourages teenage girls to leave their harmful relationships. Shawn Mendes’ “Treat