Personal Analysis OfWrecking Ball, And The Music Video

This genre of music has always been controversial. Its explicit lyrics send the wrong message to listeners. The glorification of drugs, violence, mistreatment and horrible

The song incorporates a lot of harmonic dissonance. At the beginning, the music is consonant and monophonic in texture (0:12). However, once a piano and chimes are added, the music becomes dissonant and has a polyphonic texture (0:30). Dissonance is usually used to represent disagreement. In this case, it represents the disagreement between supporters and haters of people with different sexual orientations that exists in the world, as suggested by Macklemore. This musical element of harmonic dissonance is used to connect back to the lyrics. This specifically connects to the lyrics about hate and religion in which Macklemore illustrates the cognitive dissonance between how people use religion for hate and how religion is supposed to be inclusive of everyone. The harmonic dissonance of the music provides a good connection to the cognitive dissonance of the lyrics. The music also makes use of crescendo to build anticipation and emphasize important points. One example of this is when Macklemore says, “The same fight that led people to walk-outs and sit-ins, it’s human rights for everybody, there is no difference,”(2:43). This is an explicit example of how the music helps support the lyrics. When the lyrics are making an especially critical point, the music increases in volume to draw the audience’s attention. The music also uses

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

Music is a very good thing for people because it can sometimes calm a person down and make them feel happy. Music is a good way to express one’s feelings in a positive way. Sometimes people use it for good reasons and sometimes bad reasons. I chose to write about the song “Hotline Bling” by Drake for my project. I think this song shows the emotion of sadness and depression.

This song portrays her early mental weakness or low self-esteem given that she appeared to be, “scared to rock the boat and make a mess. So I sit quietly, agree politely. I let you push me past the breaking point. I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything” (AZLyrics, 2013). This is in view of the fact that she was able to gradually convert into a leader fighting with the eye of the tiger that is, “louder than a lion cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar” (AZLyrics, 2013). This maturity targets bravery to grow from their insecurity which pushes a constructive message of strength to everyone. In brief, the role of emotion in her music will, therefore, continue to brings to mind considerable positivity from a psychological

Through perseverance and never giving up, that struggle is overcome. The musical piece possesses a great sound or timbre, the combination of all the instruments is and the artist lyrics fit right together as if it were a puzzle. The song starts off with a piano with a very low tune that goes along with John Legend singing a hook. Following the hook you here Meek Mill speaking basically giving the piece an intro. The sound just at the very beginning of the song makes you want want to listen to it all the through. To go along with the piano there is also a drum and trumpet that follow , and they also give the piece that humble type of feel. The dynamics within this piece seem to alternate, going from a soft tone to an loud uplifting tone back and forth. While each artist is giving there testimony of tough times, the song has this steady soft tone; while as they explain there perseverance through those tough times the adds this loudness to its tone. The dynamics of this song leads listeners to believe it will be structured after a dream theme, but he proceeds to paint more pictures of destruction. Piano strokes, patiently-guided strings and motivating words form a comforting message of resiliency. The track then transitions into an violent illustration of spiteful arrogance and threats. (AZLyrics, 1) To me it seems that the dynamics of this piece gives it that

This part of the song depicts the struggle of sexism in the United States. This song resonated with me because of my disbelief that so many people voted for a man who was so candid about sexism, racism, and ableism.

Humans have been expressing their feelings through different forms of art. Some artist express their thoughts through writing and others through music. When you hear a song do do you really think about the meaning of the song? I am almost sure you answered no to the above question. Through music, artist have been able to express their ideas about issues that have happened around the world. Some include poverty, racism, and others about violence. Through this song created by Mark Foster, Jacob Fink, and Mark Pontius they have been able to express their feeling about violence.

Although the song is about Lupe’s opinion it has a theme within it being the "fear of individuality". As you listen to the song you hear Lupe talk about political point of views, tragic events and local media and ties this to the theme by giving his opinion on world events to show his own individuality. In the very first verse, Lupe talks about a 9/11 conspiracy, the government cutting the budget of schools, the Gaza strip bombing and even the news. In this first verse of the song, Lupe gives much opinion helping to express his theme then going on to talk about the opinion of

The song has simple lyrics, that carry a huge strength, and haunt you even when the song is over. The juxtaposition of the beautiful landscape, the scent of flowers, with the blood of human beings brutally beaten, gives a powerful and poignant felling to the song. The song exposes the brutality of racism in America, and doesn’t leave any room for more words. When the meaning of the song is fully grasped, one remains shocked, angry and disguste by the imagery portrayed.

She doesn’t focus on the media but instead only points it out as one of the key things that cause eating disorders to continue in our society. She’s not dwelling on the problem but instead bringing the problem to the light in a very effective way. Most of the power of this video comes from the lyrics themselves.

There is many things to say about this song. This song is generally about discrimination and racism which is a big part of today’s society

The tempo of the song is very consistent, it never speeds up nor slows down. The rhythm of this song can be a bit hard to find since it’s so slow but the rhythm follows the 1, 2, 3 pace. The texture of the song changes, it starts off as homophonic when she accompanied by the backup singing the accompanied by the instruments. Then it turns into monophonic with the solo of the instruments. This song has two major functions in my life which is aesthetic enjoyment and emotional expression. In my opinion, this song’s beauty is the epitome of perfection, I have no problem saying that this song is one of the, if not the most beautiful song I have ever heard. I would say it functions say emotional expression because I feel as though with the melody alone it speaks to me. Every single time I hear this song I feel that happy and peaceful feeling you feel when you’re in love. Even if not being in love this can make you excited for it. Though the song is very slow, the mood of it is happy. You can tell from the lyrics that she is in love and happy to be in love. You can also get hope from the lyrics, she is hopefully that they can go together and be

I don’t like Miley Cyrus performance. I don’t like her performance because she is always on the wrecking ball her song

This song made it on my favorites because I love the artist; Frank Ocean has been one of my favorite artist ever since I was in middle school. The meaning to song stands out to me considering that it’s about how life isn’t moving too fast. In addition to this, we can live life without restrictions so we can look back on our past with no