Vitalogy

Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in 1990. The songs Nothingman and Better Man are from the band’s third studio album released in 1994, Vitalogy. This essay will focus on and determine the band’s gender representations through structure and language features in the two songs, Nothingman and Better Man. The two verses in Better Man illustrates the difficulties faced by a woman in an abusive relationship with her male partner. The first verse uses imagery and rhyme to show the female’s

Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in 1990. The songs Better Man and Nothingman are from the band’s third studio album released in 1994, Vitalogy. This essay will focus on and determine the band’s gender representations through structure and language features in the two songs, Nothingman and Better Man. The two verses in Better Man illustrate the difficulties faced by a woman in an abusive relationship with her male partner. The first verse uses imagery and rhyme to show the female’s

“Better Man” is a song that is written by Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam is an American band that was formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. "Better Man" is the eleventh track on the band's third studio album named Vitalogy from the year 1994. By the choice of words for “Better Man”, the author’s tone is depressing and remorseful. Although depending on the speaker there could be several different tones of this poem. Hearing a male speaker and comparing it to a female speaker you may have two or three different

Anyone familiarized with grunge music can agree that the genre skyrocketed in popularity in the 90’s, due to bands such as Radiohead, Nirvana, and most importantly Pearl Jam. From the beginning of Seattle’s early grunge scene rose a band that would go on to make multi-platinum albums, tour the world, and use their platform to express their own beliefs. Pearl Jam, in spite of their fame, prefer to use their art to reflect their values and use their platform to convey their activist beliefs. Starting

things happening in the world, big or small, in their songs. Pearl Jam is another grunge band. Pearl Jam was also formed in the 90s. They released their debut album, Ten, in 1991. Since then they’ve released nine other studio albums: Vs. in 1993, Vitalogy in 1994, No Code in 1996, Yield in 1998, Binaural in 2000, Riot Act in 2002, Pearl Jam in 2006, Backspacer in 2009, and Lightning Bolt in 2013. Pearl Jam is by The Who, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Kiss and the Ramones.