She Shook Me Cold Song Analysis

Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”, written by lead singer Freddie Mercury, is an elaborate and intriguing best-selling song from 1975. There is much speculation about what this song could be about, but there is a general understanding that no matter it is about, the song is used to express Mercury’s feelings. Throughout the song, there are various shifts in tone and music style, which are very important in demonstrating Mercury’s emotions toward himself and others. The song is symbolic of Mercury’s emotional struggles, and through various rhetorical strategies he conveys his confused and fragile emotions to the listeners.

The Woman of Songs perverts the “‘natural’ order” and thus personifies “ambiguous attitudes towards female sexuality that precipitated the crisis in modern conceptions of gender” (Schaffner 181). Moore states that “the degeneration of the gender-inappropriate pervert was seen as sliding back down the evolutionary ladder” (144). Thus, the “gender-inappropriate” Woman of Songs is envisioned as degenerate, and is shown to literally regress to the form of an insect. Yet, the Woman of Songs’s degeneracy is also implicated in the idea that she is “very much a woman of her time, that is, increasingly rebellious to the dominance of men” (145). In either case, it is a threat to the ‘normal’ functioning of society that the Woman of Songs represents.

In this society being heterosexual is unexceptable. The song “Forbidden” shows a group of couples who escaped society saying that their love will not be ‘forbidden’. This leads into “Painting In The Rain”, one of the most impactful song and video on the album. When Hall gets arrested for being straight, people riot in front of his house holding signs that say things like “God hates straights” and vandalizing property writing “hetero” on the front door. In attempt to rid of the words on the house, Halls lover, frantically paints over the words, but it is no use since the rain is just washing it away. This is a metaphor in itself showing that whatever the minority try to change people's mind the majority just ends up washing their statements away. To see all of society treating the couple that way opens up those who are close minded, showing them that love is love and you shouldn’t be punished or looked down upon for who you

Intro: Like various art forms such as film, television, and literature allows artists to express their own sense of identity, that being nationality, race, class, ethnicity, gender or sexuality. In this case, Queen uses music to illustrate the themes of gender and sexuality through their music video I Want to Break Free (1983). This essay will attempt to discuss how Queen’s music video, I Want to Break Free, explores queerness in relation to queer theory. Firstly, I will introduce the ideas and arguments of queer theory through Gilbert Herdt article Same Sex Different Cultures (1997). I will then discuss Queen’s portrayal of drag within the music video and how it can be seen as queer rather than heterosexual. Lastly, I will argue that

With its evolving and unique sound, “Bohemian Rhapsody” by the British band Queen may be one of the strangest, most inspired and least-understood songs in the history of rock. Released on October 31, 1975 in the album A Night at the Opera, “Bohemian Rhapsody” became very popular, staying at the top of the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks and by the end of January, had more than a million copies sold. Freddie Mercury, the sole writer of this song, never disclosed the song’s official meaning, but Brian May, the lead guitarist of the band, believes it is about his struggles in life and how he tried to get past society’s standards, for the lyrics progress through the central character’s understanding of the situations portrayed in the song. Nonetheless,

It is suggested that one of the reasons why artists use misogynistic lyrics in their music is that they have internalized the negative stereotypes about women that are prevalent in American society. African women were historically portrayed as animalistic sexual beasts and African males in a submissive role, giving in to wild instinct or bodily impulses. The internalization of such stereotypes may be a possible explanation of the hyper sexuality within certain hip hop music. Various authors have argued that misogyny is merely an outgrowth of the cultural acceptance of misogyny at large.

Meghan Trainor made headlines with her earworm hit “All About That Bass.” Many critics praised the song for its message on body positivity, however, a closer look at the lyrics reveals the song is not as positive as the general public has been led to believe. Much like John Fiske’s analysis of a news report, one can use Louis Althusser’s technique to expose the bias of “All About the Bass” and reveal just how the listeners of this song are being hailed.

Even though Singer used indirect references to explore sexuality, he also apply the direct reference excellently. In the short story, “Taibele and Her Demon”, the protagonist, Taibele, was sleeping when the antagonist, Alchonon or also known as Hurmizah, sneaked into her house and raped her: “‘And because you told the story with such relish, I heard your words from the abyss and was filled with lust for your body’” (335). In this scene, sexuality was redefined as desire or lust, hence Alchonon explicitly said it. This occurred because sexuality has the root word sex, which can be interpreted as sexual activities. Therefore, sexuality was directly imposed onto the main character Taibele. Moving on, the effect of implying sexuality directly

This album went straight to business by leaving sexual revolution of the 1960s/1970 in the past for the sexual aggression of the 1980’s. While some thought Dirty Mind was the “Joy of Sex” set to music two of it tracks showed the socially conscious of the singer.

Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off was released as the lead single from her record-topping album 1989 and became a smash hit across the world. Written with the help of Max Martin and Shellback, Shake It Off is an uptempo pop song that is in the key of G Major at a tempo of around 160 beats per minute. Vocally, Swift’s range in the song spans two octaves from G3 to G5. The rhythmic beats leave an impression on any music lover. The song begins with boisterous drums pertaining to the idiophone family that create a pop rhythm from the start. The drums are multi-timbral, syncopated, and upbeat with the bass drum being deep and resonant in the ears of any listener. The ride cymbal is prominent throughout creating a rhythm that never sways. The texture

2. "… there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour." (p. 11)

The art of dance is big and broad because it varies in different types of dance. Each type of dance represents its own and unique techniques or styles. Thus, each can bring in different feelings and emotions to the audience. This paper will discuss in details about three videos recording three distinctive types of dance, including Cold Hearted – a jazz dance by a singer and choreographer Paula Abdul, Sleeping Beauty, act I - a ballet dance of Tchaikovsky, and La Ecuación in Cubanía - a Cuban modern dance. The full description and analysis of those dances will be emphasized before providing some insightful thoughts, feelings or judgment about them.

The lyrics of song #1 have a poetic feel to them. You've got to hide your love away, can be categorized as (2) sexuality or (8) abstract or poetic image making. The sexuality can be seen within the lyrics and even in the title of the song. Homosexuality is what the song is about when reading the lyrics carefully. Almost like a picture story you can imagine a gay individual who has to had his love and everywhere people stare at hime making the person feel two-foot small. After understanding the deep meaning of the song it becomes more personal and beautiful. That is where an abstract and poetic image is made.

Having grown up in a devout Zoroastrian home, Mercury knew what admitting he was a homosexual would mean for him. He felt he would lose the love and admiration of his family, friends, and fans. Freddie Mercury used the song “Bohemian Rhapsody” to reveal

If one were asked to describe David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World” with a single adjective, it is probable that – regardless of their specific musical tastes – they would do so with the word strange. This is so for two reasons: one, the style of the music is markedly different from much contemporary music, with interesting combinations of instrumentals and vocals (more on that in a moment); and two, the lyrics are quite cryptic, relating a strange and very incomplete tale whose meaning is not explained, and whose participants are not fully described. An analysis of the lyrics reveals that this is so. The narrator of the song speaks of encountering an apparent stranger in passing, whereupon the two speak of “was and when,” with the stranger saying that the narrator “was his friend” (Bowie). This “came as some surprise” to the narrator, who “wasn’t there” and who proceeds to speak into the stranger’s eyes, saying “I thought you died alone, a long, long time ago” (Bowie). To this