The Climb By Ann Rinaldi: Song Analysis

The song I chose for the listening guide is “Crystalize” by Lindsey Sterling. The song was released as a music video on her YouTube channel. Lindsey Sterling, an American violinist, dancer, performance artist and composer, picked up learning the violin at age 5. Since then Sterling was in a band at age 16, introduced her own YouTube channel in 2007, and was a quarter finalist on Americas Got Talent in 2010. Americas Got Talent gained her both popularity and more traffic on her YouTube Channel and since 2010 Sterling has released two studio albums, an EP and a couple of singles.

Recorded on April 2, 1956, Johnny Cash’s first hit, “I Walk the Line,” features lyrics in which Cash wrote to explain his devotion to his first wife, Vivian Liberto. At least, that was the original intent. Vivian later divorced Cash due to his use of drugs and affairs he had with other women. With the separation, and the lack of faithfulness to both his wife and to the lyrics of this tune, the lyrics obviously do not hold up in Johnny’s case, however the song still serves to explain one’s unwavering love for another (Turner).

The poem “The White Porch” by Cathy Song is an illustration of maturity and coming of age. There is an innocent tone to the beginning of the poem with sensual undertones as the writing progress’s. In the poem, a woman is reminiscing about her young womanhood as she sits on her porch awaiting her presumed lover. Song creates the character of the woman to be of a homemaker, describing her duties taking care of laundry, having a cake in the oven and snapping beans in her lap. Through the visualization that Song creates it is assumed that the woman is pregnant, and as she is waiting for her husband she thinks back to the things she herself used to do when she was younger with her own mother. She is reflecting on the way her mother raised her thinking about how she wants to raise her own child. The speaker admits to sneaking in her lover late at night behind her mother’s back, but does not seem to feel remorseful because all her decisions led to where she is in her life now. Cathy Songs poem “The White Porch” portrays the transition of a girl into a woman using symbolism, imagery and simile.

Whiskey Lullaby is a song sung by Brad Paisley (ft. Alison Krauss) which narrates the story of a soldier coming back from war to find his wife in bed with another man. After this, the man drinks away his life trying to escape the pain until he commits suicide. Then the song continues to talk about how the woman follows down the same path after hearing about his death. In the end of the song they both get buried next to each other which symbolizes how they are finally together. The audience for this country song is those who have served or who have had family members serve. The unexpectedness of how life will figure itself out when the soldiers return. Also, how hard it is for families when their loved ones are out fighting, and they are

Ludacris does a remarkable job of portraying his message about the struggles that some adolescents are faced with. “Runaway Love”, by Ludacris, featuring Mary J. Blige (2007), represents the theme of struggle through hip-hop and rap music. It is about little girls who are “stuck up in the world on their own.” They have to take care of themselves because the people they are around do not care about them. They range from nine to eleven years in age, and their goal in life, at such a young age, is to run away from home. Ludacris is trying to get the listener to realize the struggles that even children have to face because adults are not the only ones who have problems, like most people believe. He is very successful in

In The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande describes of her life, how she came to this country with difficulties. Grande was young that it was really hard for her to understand the circumstances that were happening to her and her family. The relationship between the two passages is the different directions, but their purpose is similar. The purpose of the two passages explains the struggle of how a family from a different country is going to survive without any help. The first excerpt, ‘Mi Mama Mi Ama,’ describes the tension and confusion of the writer’s early stage of her life. They run from there to here to survive and for their new and hopeful lives. This is before she moved to the United States and the first night that she spent with eating bird food. The second excerpt, ‘The Man Behind the Glass,’ describes Grande’s and her siblings’ first day of school. As they have the same purpose, to survive, they conflict from getting ready to go to school, because they don’t know a word of English. Grande’s father can’t help them either because he doesn’t know how to speak English.

In the memoir The Distance Between us, written by Reyna Grande in 2012, U.S., Reyna Grande told her story from childhood to adulthood, she described her relationship with her family and how it was affected by the distance between them. In her childhood, she was separated from her father and later from her mother, making her live with her grandmother Evila. A few years later, her mother, Juana, returned to Mexico, but she wasn’t the same happy and sweet mother Reyna had remembered, and it was because Reyna’s father got another woman. Later in the story, Reyna’s father returned to Mexico and decided to take the kids with him to the U.S. In the second half of the memoir, Reyna described her life in the U.S., her experiences, the abuses she received and how she went through a lot of things to become a successful woman. At the ending of the story, she described her feelings towards her father in a bittersweet way: “What was needed was something I was struggling to give—my forgiveness.

In this story, Carolina and Savvie are sisters that can't be apart from each other. “I will Follow you” by Roxane Gay follows a story about these two girls that have lived a very difficult life and all they have is each other, they keep thinking back and forth about their very traumatic past as little as ten and eleven years old. Savvie and Carolina were kidnapped and molested, after six weeks of them being kidnapped by this perpetrator, they try to maintain a normal life but they keep getting flashbacks. When the perpetrator (Mr.Peter) returns to their lives he sends a letter from prison to the girls and asks them for forgiveness. These girls are put to the hardest test, will they let Mr.Peter still take advantage of them after they are

Over seven million Americans in 2014 battled a drug use disorder. In the song, “Snow (Hey Oh),” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis sings about being addicted to drugs. The Peppers’ music represents the funk rock genre, which music covers several different types of songs. Although addiction is a horrible thing, overcoming it is truly lifesaving. As shown in their music, the Peppers’ create songs about life experiences and overcoming bad habits.

On March 25, Laurin Talese released her highly anticipated debut album Gorgeous Chaos. The album is a wonderful canvas painted with Talese's stellar vocal ability. Laurin Talese's seasoned voice is a testament of her vocal training and background vocal experience. She sings with a great air of confidence and makes creative vocal choices in her approach to each song. The opening track of the album is entitled "Someone to Watch Over Me", a very smooth intro that allows us to be captivated by Talese's pure voice. The piano accompaniment that soon follows is executed with textbook precision.

I will never forget my first Broadway musical show in New York. It was a magical experience that I believe everyone should be able to experience at least once. You step into a world unlike any other. My first musical ever and my most loved one has to go to ‘In the Heights”. In the Heights is based on a three-day journey of a small Hispanic neighborhood in New York called Washington Heights. The musical touches bases on salsa, hip-hop, soul music, and merengue. In the small Latino community of Manhattan’s Washington Heights, the story plot revolves around a character named Usnavi, and his hair stylist girlfriend Vanessa. This Tony award-winning musical, encounters the many diverse residents of Washington Heights, while they’re the peak

No matter how many times somebody is asked to give an explanation to what the song Stairway to Heaven really perseveres, different answers will be given every time. The song Stairway to Heaven was written by Led Zeppelin in 1971. Throughout all these years, still everybody has their own interpretation to the song, and they will respond differently based upon what the true meaning of the song really is. The reason being is, the song represents many different values throughout it, and it is the others choice to determine the outlook on it.

No matter how many times you ask somebody to give you an interpretation of what the song Stairway to Heaven really perseveres, you will get a different answer every time. The song Stairway to Heaven was written by Led Zeppelin in 1971. Throughout all these years, still every time you ask an individual about their interpretation to the song, they will respond differently. The reason being because the songs represents many different values throughout it, but it is your choice to determine about how you choose to have an outlook on it.

Different elements of these recordings and the classes progress with the song “Piu Non Si Trovano” revealed each rendition of the song's strengths and weaknesses. To start, when comparing the professional recording to the classes progress two differences, composition and blending/balance of the choirs, became very obvious to me. After first hearing this recording, I had already confirmed that the singer's had more of a presence and a better mastery of composition than we did. This applied to breathing together, ending and beginning different parts of the song together, and saying consonants together throughout the whole song. I also differentiated the skill level, regarding the choir essentials of balance and blending, between the professional

What goes through a writer’s head when preparing for a novel? What does he/she research on for the novel to bring out the best outcome? This is the main theme of Andrea Levy, an English writer with Jamaican origins, ’s essay, which was published round about 2010. In her essay Andrea Levy gives an account on which aspects came into her consideration before she wrote The Long Song.