My Value In Life

This song can relate to most of us. “For What It’s Worth” deals with more than one problem. It talks about many problems that are occurring and need to stop. This song is written on a broad spectrum to cover everything that is happening during this time. “For What It’s Worth” represents the late sixties, the opposition of the Vietnam War, and many riots that are going on. People did not accept others free thinking and right to be different; that led to many of the riots and civil right concerns. Equality is a right to battle for but not violently.

Millions of people in the world listen to music for all different reasons. Most people all over the world listen to different genres of music in order to relax, but not too many people pay attention to the actual lyrics of a song. If you listen to the lyrics of a song you will realize that many songs have important messages or themes to them. An example of this is the lyrics of the song “Changes” by Tupac Shakur. If you listen to this song, you will realize that Tupac raps about not only the problems that African Americans face from society, but also the struggles that poor people in society have to endure and overcome. Many

The lyrics of a song often have no substance and a clear example would be any Britney Spears song. The lyrics of “All Falls Down” are very deep. They talk about the ideal situation in life; We should go to school, get a good job and make money to buy what we want. The lyrics then ask, what if this doesn’t happen? This is prevalent in the first verse. “She has no idea what she doing in college. That major that she majoring, it don’t make no money.” The song questions these everyday values because we focus so much on these things, we don’t realize there are more important things in life such as life itself. Even Kanye admits that he spent money at Jacob’s Jewellery store before he thought about a house. “I went to Jacob with

The song expresses how people are not living up to society's values and norms. It suggest that the socialization is at fault and that they contribute to improvement of self being. The song implies the way society goes against values and norms by one of the very first lyrics in the song. The lyric goes, “What’s wrong with the world, mama, People livin’ like they ain’t got no mamas…” (lines 1-2). This makes one aware of the lack of values in one's family. Values is the belief or an idea that a person or group has to determine is correct or not. Another verse of how the band shows one disobedience of the values and norms comes toward the middle of the song. “People killin', people dyin’, Children hurt and you hear them cryin, Can you practice what you preach, And would you turn the other cheek…” (lines 50-53). These verses show of society has failed to act stable and logical way that society once viewed as correct living. These actions show that citizens have not lived up to the expectations of society. Social norms are likes the laws of society. Laws are things that are illegal behaviour and norms are like behaving in a way society wouldn’t like. For example being in gangs, like the bloods, or the crips, or a big group that goes against society's norms like racial groups. An example of a racial group would be the KKK.

This song implies that individual’s are violating the norms and values of society. They start the song with a verse that expresses

The values and qualities of the work being done consists of the maximum level of not being concerned about anything but telling the truth about things other won’t even say, but its inside each and every one who relates to the action that the music describes, the inequality, the frustration, the eager to be limitless with expressing themselves as reality serves them a huge amount of discomfort that is being comforted by the lyrics with the classical album, Straight Out of Compton. Values with-in the musical product included being reckless with choice of words in the benefit of simply saying what’s true, regardless of the excessive profanity, violence, and misogyny, and that is what makes it a strong rebellion message to people who are in the same situation the N.W.A talked about in the

An another example representing a character in this song would be “You don't know what it's like to mind your business,And get stopped by the cops and not know if you 'bout to die or not ,You worry 'bout your life, so you take mine”(Joyner Lucas) which represents black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people, and in 2015, 30% of black people who were shot were

The song I have chosen to talk about is one of my favorite songs ever and it’s called “All Falls Down” by Kanye West. The College Dropout came out in 2004 and was Kanye Wests debut album as a music artist. This song was his third single off the album. As shown from Barbaric Poetries blog, Tia states that Kanye’s message in this song is that, “when you live life to impress others and cover up your insecurities, you will never be satisfied, thus all will seem to fall down (http://barbaricpoetries.

For my paper, I’ve decided to discuss 5 songs while also analyzing and evaluating the lyrics that depict ideas such as love, friendship, family relationships, or any social issues. Now for the five songs I’ve picked to discuss, I chose the ones that have been major influences in my life because their messages stood out to me as being extremely relatable due to the message it conveyed. The first song I’ve chosen to discuss is “Sing about me" by Kendrick Lamar, in this song Kendrick sings through the perspectives of 2 different people that he knew. One positive and one negative he later then gives his own perspective. This whole song discusses life in an urban ghetto and Kendrick exemplifies the different ways people choose to survive for example The first person who Kendrick sings about turns to vengeance through violence due to his brother being shot by gang members, while the second person sells

It may seem out of the ordinary for someone like me to relate my entire life to a rap song, but it has been the case for several years. Specific lyrics ringing through my head whenever those moments come to me. A motto that spirals into a message of questioning, and wondering to life and the decisions behind it. A song that makes me reassure my decisions, marking that this is my one chance and that, I got to make the most out of it with the risks I take. It’s a whimsical sense of wondering in shallow pools of optimism on the what if’s involved. Did I do the right thing? What if I didn’t? It’s all apart of the mental checklist that flows like a creek in the forest of my mind. Overall, my life isn't defined by the shortcuts I take, but instead

Lastly this song also reflects to pop culture in general. In this society, nobody seems to like it when other people succeed, but instead enjoy it when people. People gain pleasure off of other people’s failure that it discourages many people to go for their dreams and many potential talents would go to waste as stated in the first verse: “You'll promise that you'll pay for the things you can. You want the whole world but its burning in your hands. You're asking for help no one hears you understand. Tt's a crowd full of friendship can never go fam. They love you then but they don't love you now. Your whole life seems to be crashing down. You never feel safe when there's no around. So if you feel like giving up you gotta STAND YOUR GROUND!” and in the second verse: “People will always try to bring you down it's a part of life” In addition to that he gives advice on not giving into the crowd and just be yourself and work hard as stated in the first verse: “No one else can ever tell it you otherwise. So stop trying to be just like them other guys. Fake the haters who living to see you failing life,

In modern music, the message of the song tends to be drowned out by its ability to sell. In order to determine the substance of a piece of music, one must take a critical look at the work and the message therein. Chamillionaire’s song, “Good Morning” depicts the good life in such a way that one must love themselves, as well as their haters, in order to live well. The video portrays Chamillionaire’s life of excess, including depictions of expensive cars, designer clothes, diamonds, and other luxuries to suggest that a life well lived is a materialistic one.

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, “

Many people have different opinions on what you should be doing in life or what are the most important values or characteristics. I think that you can control all of your emotions and can influence how good or bad your life is. My opinions are not the only right answer but they are what I think matters.

My mom once told me when I was young and ignorant, “Faith is the foundation of a beautiful friendship with the one person who will always remain by your side”. These words were expressed even more profoundly every Sunday in the echoing corridors of a small church by a priest I had yet to know or even care about. Preaching with his perplexing words in which I could only muster barely a fourth of my full attention span listening to. Thus, the term faith did not exactly resonate with me until many years later. My early years were filled with the teachings of the bible in Sunday school and later on as well in middle school during Friday night sessions. Unfortunately, my mom was an extremely strong enforcer of our faith for she was also raised Catholic from birth, but my dad on the other hand has a more scientific approach to how the world came to be. The years I spent in Sunday school blurred into an everlasting line of bleak nothingness just a ticking clock waiting till an end. Even today I do not remember anything that occurred within those taxing sixty minuets of constant bible studies it’s as though I lost the key to the inner workings of my childhood. Nonetheless, there have always been unbelievably great role models in my faith such as my mom, youth ministers, and friends who encourage me to be open to my faith. However, it’s always been my own restrictions that prevent me from furthering my relationship with God. So when my sister suffered her first severe