Not Today By Twenty One Pilots: Song Analysis

Living in a perfect society. Depressed. Anthem is a story where they live in a perfect society. Our world now is almost becoming that., Being controlled by our government. Being controlled by the cops, the government. Being depressed plays a big part in our society. Having people commit to things they don't want to make, which makes them feel awkward and uncomfortable.

The song "Stressed Out" by Twenty-One Pilots is a story about a struggling singer which seems familiar to the audience on a personal level. While exploring such sensitive topics as stress, becoming an adult, and nostalgia, it also touches upon the issue of originality. The understanding between the lead singer, Tyler Joseph, and the listeners is reached with the help of the themes, the tone, and the narrative of the song.

One of the largest parts of my life for the past few years has been music. I has been like a home and it definitely provides a connection for me. Many of my favorite songs are relatable to me in some way. They may describe an aspect of my life, or even a specific way that I feel. Having this thing that I can relate to and actually understand is such an amazing thing.

That is a hard thing to do in the music business because most of the songs are just used to talk about girls and beer. When you sing about your feelings, they get heard by only select few people. Everyone has at one point and time felt alone, sad, and forgotten. For some this is an everlasting feeling.

“Prince was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor, he served as a major figure in popular music for over three decades,” states Evita Gorgorni from Useless Daily. Prince Rogers Nelson was born June 7, 1958, and died April 21, 2016. He self- taught himself to play the piano at seven, guitar at thirteen, and drums at fourteen. Prince has won seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, an Academy Award and sold over 100 million records worldwide. One song of his, “Kiss” was nominated for Favorite Soul/R&B Single, and actually won an award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The song is important because it tells of a man who is explaining his intentions with a woman. The song displays this by the instruments, lyrics, and arrangement. “Kiss” uses literary terms and is highly recommended rating almost 4 of 5 stars.

“It 's definitely… very anthemic.” Anderson shares with PPcorn. “It 's kind of about forgetting what 's gone on in the past, or what the hard times that you 're trying to overcome, or you have overcome, and focusing on where you want to go and how you 're going to get there.”

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

Throughout many of my journal entries I express the fear of going outside of my comfort zone. This fear I have is the reason why I am not vey social able or outgoing. In many of my reflections I also express the fact that I’m afraid of other people and how they will judge me. Last week in class we learned about how adolescence believe in an imaginary audience. I don’t think I ever really grew out of believing in an imaginary audience. I still constantly think I am the center of people’s attention and not in a good way.

The issue the song relates to is depression. Depression is real and it does affect people and their everyday lives. Depression can lead to many more issues in others and those issues lead to more issues and it just keeps going and going. Sometimes depression can lead to suicide and it often does, especially in teens. In an article called, “Thwarting A Killer: Teen

Though this song has no lyrics, it still fills you with adrenaline but also gives a melancholy feeling. Just like the effect war has on people. Not talking regarding about what happened or what's happening in our world. Sometimes silence is more effective showing pain than words are. When you look at artwork from a museum, one doesn’t always need to be told what’s going on know what’s happening. Some things don’t need to be said or explained.

The song “Internationale” tries to bring a lot of pro-activist and more of anti-oppression movement fillings. As the songwriter, and till this day a left-wing activist, Billy Bragg was encouraged to make an English verse from one of the French successors of the song, Pete Seeger. (It is important to mention that Eugène Pottier (born in France) was the original author of the song who composed it somewhere at the end of the 19th century, and due to its popularity, has gone all around different musicians afterward). Of course, Mr. Bragg could not resist the offer, and so he created an English version. It is well known that sometimes the translation changes and varies from artist to artist, yet two (Billy Bragg and Pete Seeger) collaborated so there would be no mistakes or misinterpretations.

Not everything comes easy in life. Sometimes you just got to have hope because if you give up what if you were almost there and you gave up almost being there. Like my poem theme is about love that he’s heart broken. In this poem is talking about a guy that was truly in loved and they left him like a dog he says in the song that the whole world turns blue that’s imagery it’s trying to say that he fell like the world is falling on him. Whit no hope of going back he’s just going to accepted that he lost and he can get her back. Also he says “Theresa rundown bar “its hyperbole it over reacting saying it rundown its nit relies saying it rundown it saying its old and hardly no one go’s.

A recent performance that captured not only the audience but also the judges on American Idol by Kelly Clarkson called “Piece By Piece” not only had everybody in tears but also in complete awe. This performance became huge in the world of Facebook, so many people watching the video, sharing the video, and telling their stories about their feelings related to the lyrics. Throughout this essay I will be discussing Kelly Clarkson’s journey throughout her life, how single family parenting is impacting the society, how the outlook on single family homes have changed throughout generations because it is becoming more of a norm and finally the emotional connection to the songs that she has written in regards to her father and the struggles she has faced throughout her life. To me Kelly has a way of capturing her audience and pulling them into the songs and really making the lyrics make sense, and helping people in similar situations realize that they are not alone in their struggles.

Ariel McCullough, Art Education 1600, Autumn 2015, Dr. Smith The Generation of Cynics Green Day is a band that a defined multiple generations. While they are not notorious for their political statements, but more of their wild behaviors, along the way they have made a few songs with some obvious statements about society. One song in particular is very clearly political. This song is called “American Idiot”.

Within the following discussion and analysis, we will be looking at the punk rock group Green day song, American Idiot. This song is the title track of their seventh studio album of which shares the same name. Which was release as a single on August 31, 2004, just three weeks before the release of the full album on September 20, 2004. The central idea of the song focusses on the idea that people are being told how think or view certain things by an over bias media. It should also be noted that this song was written during the 2004 presidential election which had a large influence on the song.