Song Review Of The Song 'Stand By You' By Rachel Platten

Most audiences view music as a form of entertainment only, so society tends to overlook the messages behind the music. Some artists use music to promote their beliefs or inform their listeners about unnoticed issues. Music can spread awareness about misfortunes in the world, and Martina McBride uses her celebrity status to promote her own concerns about child abuse. In 2002, Martina McBride recorded a song titled “Concrete Angel” to spread awareness about child abuse. Her song addresses the general population, consisting of bystanders, because most people are aware of tragedies such as child abuse, but they ignore the problem. Through emotional appeals, characterization, imagery, and foreshadowing, “Concrete Angel” illustrates the story of a young girl’s abuse in order to call the bystanders to awareness of the societal problem.

Robin Thicke’s music video to his song “Blurred Lines” avidly contributes to the patriarchy, while portraying sexism, gender standards, and beauty standards. His music video can be analyzed from a feminist theory approach, as it’s evident that his song and video contribute to a patriarchal society and its inherently sexist and sexualized ideologies. The ideology behind the song and music video is purely sexual and about male dominance. The lyrics to the song and actions in the video exhibit extreme over sexualization and objectification of the women. Analyzing this piece of popular culture through a feminist approach opens up a provoking conversation about how popular culture functions in a patriarchal culture. Analyzing pop culture though a feminist theory can allow for a larger variety and more in-depth analysis about the social aspects and political agenda within popular culture.

Growing up with a baby face gives the impressions to others that I am a innocent 14 year old teenager, which it can be convenient at some points. But, it has its downfalls as well, people start treating me like a little girl, when in reality I am a 19 year old (about to be 20 in a few weeks) strong feminist believer and I am the confident friend who loves to make my friends feel empowered. Even though I look innocent, I like to go on adventures and get lost, I am very ambitious as well, and I love having fun. I want to give that first impression to people who do not know me well enough. The song “Pretty Girl Rock” by Keri Hilson best describes my confidence as a woman, ambitious, and a fun feminist.

Rachel took her arm away from his but still walked close to him. Then he had cried out "Rachel! Do you not love me? Is not my love for you as sacred as anything in all of life itself?" Rachel was quiet. They passed a street lamp. Her face was pale and beautiful. He had made a movement to grab her arm and she had moved a little farther from him. "No," she had replied. He then said "Some time--when I am more worthy?" he had asked in low voice, but she did not hear him, she did not even say goodnight and went into her house.

Rachel is first introduced into the play at the very beginning where we see she has gone to the jail to visit her boyfriend Bert Cates. Rachel is very desperate to try and get Bert to just throw himself at the mercy of the court and admit that what he did was wrong. She just wants to be with him. As she enters the jail she speaks to Meeker saying “Mr Meeker, don’t let my father know I came here”, This quote portrays Rachel’s character very well. She is shy and lacks confidence, obviously worried of what would happen if her father found out she was visiting Cates, the enemy to her father at this point. She has lived her life in fear of her father and because of she followed everything

“Hug Me” by Meg & Dia inspired by the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley

Carole King was originally named Carole Klein when she was born in New York City on February 9, 1942 [1]. An accomplished pianist by age 10, Carole began songwriting in her early teens [1]. Shortly after, she helped form a quartet called the Co-Sines and created her stage name, Carole King [1]. While attending Queens College, King met Gerry Goffin, her first husband [1]. Shortly after King and Goffin’s marriage, they

Karen Joy Fowler’s , We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, tells the story of a family rent by the loss of all their children to cages and solitude. The youngest child, Rosemary Cooke, recounts her life through episodic flashbacks told without a mind for chronology, as her father had once told her that she need not start with the beginning. She should always start with the middle. The title of the novel illustrates the origin of each episode in Rosemary’s life, as every year and every milestone came to pass with an unimaginable amount of pain. Rosemary’s family, as well as everyone who came to know her, were completely beside themselves with the loss of Fern. Beside themselves with grief and anger and indignation, they make their choices in life out of instinct rather than logic and careful thought. Rosemary’s retelling is marked by emotional highs and lows which had changed everything in their wake, as her life was a science experiment that became ruined by empathy.

Rachel had always had a love for sports, but football was a life changer for her. How it all started, is one day her step-father jokingly asked her if she wanted to try football, and she replied with yes very seriously.

Don't look at me is the first line of Christina Aguilera's song "Beautiful." This instant whisper from the voice of Aguilera creates an ashamed vibe for the song. It is spoken quietly and without any musical instrumentation. As the music softly and brilliantly builds up to the first verse listener's already have a misinterpretation of the lyrics. The audience presumes that the song will be about depression or shame and disgrace because one would associate not wanting people to look at you with shame. However, once they read more into the lyrics they notice that the meaning of the song is much deeper than shame and actually has an opposite message. When the audience hears the title of the song they could

Barbara J. Risman (1998:2) defines gender essentialism as “the assumption that basic differences in orientation and personality between men and women are rooted in biology and nature.” Gender essentialism is found in many different aspects of western culture or more specifically American culture. One way gender essentialism subtly sneaks its way into our culture is through music. An example of this occurrence would be the song “God Made Girls” by RaeLynn.

Rachel grew up in a house hold where she had to grow up really quick. In her early teenage years she witnesses her mom struggle through abusive relationships with her step dad and other boyfriends that came after. She eventually became an alcoholic. By the time Rachel was 13 year old, she dropped out of school to take the role of the emotional and financial care taker of her mother. Living in her

Having released one album a year since 2007, Chris Lambert recently took a brief hiatus from songwriting to confront his family history and get to know himself more deeply. After eighteen months and a road trip across America, he's returned with a new sound. The Blue Hour is his most personal album to date.

The first song is “Sit Still Look Pretty” by Daya. It was written and released 2016 and in the genre synthpop. The reason why the song was written was to show that girls are not trophies. Also that she is not going to sit there and act how society wants her to act she is going to act how she wants to act. I picked this song because it's always empowered me to stop thinking what other people think of you and be myself.

While there are many depictions of thematic tension that demonstrate the allegorical allusion between good and evil within this scene, I will break down two moments that independently argue the significance of Rachel’s character as the manifestation of good, redeeming the negative connotation Christianity has within the story. With the technical elements already dissected, I focus solely on how the scenes operate on a thematic scale. The first moment would be when Rachel joins in with a Preacher for a duet of the song “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”. While the preacher sings throughout this song from the start