Tone Of The Song Of Demi Lovato

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.

Many generations 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 overlooked issues. Music spreads awareness about misfortunes in the world, and Martina McBride used her celebrity status to promote her own concerns about child abuse. In 2002, Martina McBride recorded a song “Concrete Angel” to spread awareness about child abuse. Her song exists for the general population that consists of bystanders because most people are aware of tragedies such as child abuse but refuse to report them. Through the elements of plot, characterization, 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.

Many people think that the poem A Song, by Helen Maria Williams, is just a love letter when, in fact, it is more of an expression of her relationship with her inspiration of writing.

While earning her degree in creative writing, Reyna Grande learned that sometimes you have to write the story you want to read. As a Mexican immigrant she was searching for literature on immigrant experiences but could never find anything written about the children of immigrants, about people like her. The Distance Between Us is her memoir, a voice for the experiences of immigrant children whose parents made the journey before them. Distance is a constant theme throughout her story. It can be recognized in hers and her family’s physical, psychological, emotional and mental experiences.

-by Christina anu, written by: Neil murray, and Warumpi Band in 1986, My Island Home, sydeny, 2000.

I chose “Humble and Kind,” by Tim McGraw as my theme song. “Humble and Kind” is a very good song that has very unique lyrics. The song gives advice on how to live. There are many manners in this song that are very important. The song is a parent telling their child how they should live life. It seems that the artist wrote the song on how he wishes he would have acted when he was younger. One of the main messages of this song are that everyone has something in their lives, but you still need to be nice. Some of the lyrics on the song are about the 10 Commandments. Even though we grow up, we still need to remember our manners and how to live life. “Don’t hold a grudge or a chip and here’s why Bitterness keeps you from flying.” This is an example

Lyrics evoke imagery within a song. From the way the word is enunciated to the volume at which the word is expressed, the listener is being encouraged to visualize the lyricist’s emotion. Lyrics with depth can be especially evocative, conjuring positive or negative imagery that synthesizes the songwriter's sentiment in a listener’s mind. Shallow lyrics do the opposite: they fail to fortify the author’s sentiment, often because there is no coherent, well-thought-out expression of emotion. Therefore, shallow lyrics are the worst song lyrics.

Mi Chacra is written in the Key of F major, it possesses twelve measures, is written in common time, and utilizes a nine-note musical range. Rhythmically, this song uses a variety of notes that include: half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, a quarter rest, and an eighth rest. There are also “ghost” notes that indicate spoken lyrics at quarter note values.

1.) Tone is the author's attitude toward the subject he or she is writing about. Tone has to do with how something is being said, rather than what is being said. How would you describe Singer's TONE in the essay? How does his choice of language help achieve his tone?

“Ompeh” is a song from the Akan speaking peoples of Ghana. “Ompeh” was an ensemble led by Stanley Ato Bortsie and Ato Quartey. The melody in “Ompeh” is a repeated rhythm that plays out through the song whereas Western music is built upon a tension and release method. The rhythms of the song are repeated throughout its entirety incorporating a drum beat, perhaps a cymbal, and people clapping. A repeated rhythm throughout the entirety of a song is not something I hear often in Western Music. Also, a cymbal is not a usual instrument in Western songs rather pianos and guitars are used more often. The tempo is also steady throughout, although the claps build in contrast to the drums that have a steady beat. The claps are a quick 1-2 beat and the

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

Beyonce uses pathos, the first of the three appeals in her song by using very descriptive phrases. When she states, “I’d listen to her, `cause I know how it hurts,” Beyonce is telling her audience that she understands what it is like to be hurt, and that if she were a boy, she would treat her women better because she could understand where she was coming from. This tugs at the listener’s heart because you can see that she has been emotionally hurt from a past relationship. Also, many people can relate to what she is disclosing. It is human nature for people to get emotionally damaged in a relationship and therefore her feelings are empathized. She also uses syntax by the way she orders her words by telling a story. If the song was not in story form, it would not produce the great impact that it does.

At the beginning of the book, We Were Liars, the mood is very mysterious and dark as Cady describes her family’s problems. However, as the book continues the mood starts to lighten up a bit, especially when Cady comes to reality with her inner ghost. The changing mood of book can be described using the song “Shake It Out” by Florence + The Machine. At first, when she first realizes that her cousins are dead the mood feels like these lyrics, “Regrets collect like old friends/Here to relive your darkest moments… /And I’ve been a fool and I’ve been blind/

The tone she brings about in her first statement is one of concern. By asking a rhetorical question like, “are we crazy,” Perry makes the listeners question their actions and self-reflect (1-2). In addition, she also asks her onlookers if they are satisfied with the way they live life. This question also requires self-reflection. Later in the song, she asks her listeners if they are tone deaf. With words like “crazy” and “tone deaf” having negative connotations, it makes people more aware of the issue Perry is bringing to light. Throughout the first two verses, Perry’s lyrics hold a tone of concern, but when the verses turn to the chorus, the tone changes from concern to mocking.

Her tone leads us to her message, which is that Christina Aguilera is, indeed, satisfied with herself and everything she is. She explains that despite whatever anyone says, she will not be discouraged in any means. She wants the reader and listener to comprehend that she doesn't need anyone to dishearten her of what exactly she is. She expresses to the reader and listener that she, herself will not be stressed by others negative disapproval. Her purpose is to basically state that she is who she is and no one will change that and addresses someone that there opinion would not matter, regardless.