What Is Forever By Jeff Williams

The song I chose was “I’m Sorry” by the artist Joyner Lucas. This song has a pretty deep meaning to me. It’s about a man who commits suicide. Last year around Christmas time I met this guy. He was a friend of a close family member of mine. He was always hanging around them so naturally we started talking. I’m the type of person who cares about people a little too much. I started noticing that he got more quiet and more to himself. I never thought he wanted to hurt himself. I trusted him and he knew he could trust me too. Things at home weren’t good. He was hurting. No kid should ever go through that (he is my age).

For my choice of a song that produces an emotional appeal, I decided to pick Forever by Joyner Lucas. In this song, Joyner is presented with a child that he denies and hates at first. Joyner complains about wanting an abortion, abandoning his son, abandoning his wife, hopes of a miscarriage, and just anything to get him out of that situation. Ultimately, in the end, the child is born. Joyner struggles at first with accepting his fate, but eventually, he grows into it. Forever journeys into the perspective of Joyner as he is talking to his newborn child. He explains to his child, even though he is unable to comprehend it, that he hopes he forgives him for all the evil actions and thoughts he had against him and his mother. The song makes an excellent emotional appeal to any audience due to Joyner’s tone, lyrics, imagery, rhyme scheme, storytelling.

The song I selected is “Clean by Taylor Swift. My reason for choosing this song is because is one of most emotional songs. I predict that the song has a somber tone. My initial thoughts were that this an exceptional personal song. I believe the theme is about her struggling with addiction.

I picked “A Thousand Year” by Christina Perri. I love this song since the first time that I heard it. This song tells you that time can fly, and we can die but even thou he/she will love you for an eternity. My second song is “Because You Love Me” by Celine Dion. She transmits a message thru this song about the person that has been with her forever and how graceful she is to be with him. The singer cannot be more clear when she sings “You were my strength when I was weak, You were my voice when I couldn't speak, You were my eyes when I couldn't see, You saw the best there was in me

The first song that I have chosen is “White Liar” by Miranda Lambert because this song represents what I went through during my very tragic divorce. Lambert is an American country music artist who co-wrote this song with Natalie Hemby. The song was released in August of 2009. The reason I chose this song is because the words remind me of what I went through when I found out that my husband of six years had been cheating on me and how I felt. Lambert sings, “Hey white liar, the truth comes out a little at a time and it spreads just like a fire.” My husband had been cheating on me and the entire time, I sensed something was wrong, but he continued to tell me that I was wrong. According to him, they were just friends. In reality, I too was also a white liar

The song that I chose is “Holding onto You” by Twenty One Pilots. Almost every Twenty One Pilots song can bring back certain memories and emotions for me. The reason that I chose this song in particular, is because it brings back a few different memories. The very first thing that comes to my mind when I hear this song is my first plane ride. It was about two years ago, and I

Poverty and oppression is a serious condition that is prevalent even in today’s modern society. Women and children are exposed to poverty and subjected to a life of injustice. One of the countries where such problems still occur is in India. Despite the country’s modernization, there lies an undercity where the disparity of wealth is transparent. These social problems are thoroughly described in movies and literature such as Slumdog Millionaire and Behind the Beautiful Forevers. In the book Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Catherine Boo, the author describes slum life for a set of individuals and the hardship that their social conditions confined them to. Another movie that gave insight to slum life in India is Slumdog Millionaire

If you had the choice,would you want to live forever? In the book “Tuck Everlasting” by Natalie Babbitt, a ten-year-old girl had to make a choice of if she would live forever or would she not. She had to make a choice because when she was wandering around the forest she came across the Tuck family who knows about a water, called the spring, that can make you younger forever. Life is a wheel, everyday someone new enters the wheel and someone falls off the wheel; they live forever. Living forever is a curse because you lose your loved ones, see everything around you change, and you need to hide, to keep the secret away from everyone.

The “good” piece of music that I have selected is “Stay” by Florida Georgia Line. Owing to the fact that I am a huge country music fan and admire the work of Florida Georgia Line, my explanation of why this song is good might come off as bias, but I am going to do my best to impartially elucidate its value. Country music is known for its meaningful and relatable lyrics, so “Stay” communicates to individuals, who want someone back in their life who they have lost, that they are not alone. Additionally, Florida Georgia Line is a country music duo with talented singing skills. The pitch of the Florida Georgia Line singers placed “Stay” in the number one spot on the Billboard Country Chart along with its harmony, chorus, and rhythm that are pleasurable

I have chosen 300 Violin Orchestra by Jorge Quintero. As a child, my mother would play classical music for me because the doctor recommended it. Recently I read studies that brought to light the capability of focusing and recapturing what has been studied could be better done if the student listened to wordless songs i.e. classical music, while studying. When I gave it a try I realized my focus increased and just stuck to it. The song mentioned above represents me in such way that I had previously listened to classical and when I reconnected to it for school purposes I realized I had found my home in music. I chose that specific song because although it includes violin it provides this sense of modernity and really enlightens my mood.

In the second most populated country the world has, the top 10% of Indian society posses 74% of the wealth. The reason for this inequality and also a great comparison in the novel by Katherine Boo, Behind The Beautiful Forevers, are the character traits of Abdul and Asha. Abdul attempts to remain pure, like ice, in his selfless morals, questioning if people can stay good when surrounded by corruption. Asha, on the other hand, makes selfish, “muddy” decisions such as scamming her neighbors and sleeping with authority figures for power, both being actions that perpetuate inequality. Asha even goes so far as to dismiss her responsibility for these actions by asking, “how is it my wrong if the big people say it is right?" Yet, the answers to these

This song is a soft, soulful song that reminds me of my best friend, Davida White. All her characteristics make me think of her when listening to the song. She is kind, caring, intelligent, athletic, loving and loyal. When I hear the song I think of the special time we had at prom specifically because it highlights one of the greatest moments we shared together. I remember the rush and preparation process I went through to make the night a memory permanently embedded in my head. I went to get my haircut at 12 noon. Then I rushed home to get ready and took plenty of pictures, because I was looking like a million bucks, before

I chose the song “Praying” by Kesha. This song is possibly inspired by an ex. This ex of Kesha’s told her she was nothing without him, that she couldn’t make it on her own. She believed these things for a while, then realized she didn’t him. She told herself she could do it, and that she was powerful and strong. Even though all this has happened and the ex is gone, she still hopes he’s okay. She hopes he finds his peace and becomes a better person. In the song she states, “No more monsters, I can breathe again.” She saying that now that this ex is gone she can live and they aren’t holding her down anymore.

The Main key song I have chosen is All I Have To Do Is Dream which is a popular song that was made famous by The Everly Brothers, the song was originally created by Boudleaux Bryant and Felice Boudleaux who were a American husband and wife country music and pop songwriting team. The song was published in 1958 and is currently ranked No. 142 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Jazz, unlike quite a few new-age genres of music, is one of those types of genres that you have to listen to multiple times in order to get the full effect of a piece. Considering it is more musically complex than a genre such as pop, you can hear something new almost every single time you listen to the same piece. For my CD review, I chose to write about Return to Forever written by Chick Corea, released in November of 1999. Some of the reasons I chose this album is because it is seen as “alternative” jazz, and I was extremely curious as to what that sounded like, and also after listening to the first track, because it has electronic music incorporated within it. The main reason the idea of computer-produced music sparked my interest so much is because normally when I hear something electronically generated (EDM, Dub step, etc.), I end up seriously hating it.