“My love, she keeps me warm.” Without context, these song lyrics have no impact or power behind them. However, if told that these words were sung by a female vocalist, and preceded by the lyrics “I can’t change, even if it tried, even if I wanted to,” suddenly the words have meaning as a woman sings of her love for another woman (Haggerty, Lewis, Lambert, 2102). These lyrics come from the 2012 song “Same Love” by Macklemore with Ryan Lewis and featuring Mary Lambert. In the song “Same Love,” Macklemore raises his voice against the issues of discrimination, gay rights, and marriage equality that we see in today's era. He uses two fallacies in the song, but Macklemore’s use of the three rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos in his song “Same Love,” have a great level of success in proving the importance of gay rights and marriage equality. Right away Macklemore establishes his credibility and knowledge, ethos, by stating, "When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay, 'Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight" (Haggerty, Lewis, Lambert, 2102). With such a forceful statement, he shows that he can relate to this issue, which gives him the credibility that people look for in such an important topic. By speaking of personal experience, this gives the audience a closer look into his life and may feel a connection that many people might need to relate and understand the lyrics or topic of the song. With the song beginning with an anecdote about Macklemore as a third grader fearing he was gay brings a great sense of the ethos appeal. This directly illustrates society’s corruption of an innocent child’s mind with the fear of being gay and believing that being gay would be a fault. This opening anecdot... ... middle of paper ... ...with the relaxing style, the delivery also enhances the success of the rhetorical aspects. By keeping the song at a slower tempo, the listener is able to hear the song’s message and meaning at its entirety. The structure, style, and delivery of “Same Love” all work together seamlessly to ensure the success of the song. “Same Love” by Macklemore is a song that tackles a tough social issue and the importance of the issue in a very successful manner. I have great respect for Macklemore for choosing such a controversial and important topic, when his celebrity status is still relatively new and in the limelight. He saw that he had the power and media’s attention, so he took that opportunity and used it to make a positive statement. Works Cited Haggerty, B., Lewis, R., Lambert, M. (2012). Same Love. [Recorded by Macklemore]. On The heist [MP3]. Seattle: Macklemore LLC.
When looking at the landscape of Hip-Hop among African Americans, from the spawn of gangsta rap in the mid 1980s to current day, masculinity and an idea of hardness is central to their image and performance. Stereotypical to Black masculinity, the idea of a strong Black male - one who keeps it real, and is defiant to the point of violence - is prevalent in the genre. This resistant, or even compensatory masculinity, encompasses: the hyper masculinity rife in the Western world, misogyny, and homophobia, all noticeable in their lyrics, which is in part a result of their containment within the Black community. The link of masculinity and rap music was established due to this containment, early innovators remaking public spaces in their segregated neighbourhoods. A notion of authentic masculinity arose from the resistant nature of the genre, but the move to the mainstream in the 90s created a contradiction to their very image - resistance. Ultimately, this in part led to the construction of the masculinity defined earlier, one that prides itself on its authenticity. I’ll be exploring how gender is constructed and performed in Hip Hop, beginning with a historical framework, with the caveat of showing that differing masculine identities in the genre, including artists
Domestic violence, the connotation of the two words immediately invokes images in everyone's mind. Two songs will be discussed in this paper, these songs relate directly to the issue. The first song is “A Child Called ‘it’” by Buckcherry, released in 2008 on the Black Butterfly album. The second song is “Im ok” by Christina Aguilera, released in 2002 on the Stripped album. Buckcherry’s song, is based on a true story of a child that was abused by his mother. Similarly, Christina Aguilera’s song talks about her women who is being abused, you can tell this from the beginning of the song when she sings, “my father's fist would put her in her place.” Both of these songs directly talk about domestic violence and
The overall proposition of this song is love, yet the band expresses their love by promising to get their love anything they want. This relates to Joey Stark in the book Their Eyes Were Watching God. Joey gives Janie basically anything she wants and tells her that he will show her the world. When Joe first meets Janie he tells her “A pretty doll-baby lak you is made to sit on de front porch and rock and fan yo’self and eat p’taters dat other folks plant just special for you." Joe explains that he will do anything for her because he loves her. He tells her that she is meant to kick her feet up and relax while someone does the work for her. That’s why I chose the song Say you don’t want it because the band is expressing love by giving the girl that they love anything she wants. In the music video of the song the main singer finds this woman and take her around the city. He buys her food new clothes and eventually at the end they realize they love each other. It connects to joe starks in the beginning of the story promising Janie that she can have everything
One way in which Hip-Hop addresses these social issues is through lyrics of Hip-Hop songs. There are many artists who have songs that contain lyrics that both outwardly and subliminally state the issues that minority communities face. One such artist is J.Cole. In many of Cole’s songs, you can...
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One of the largest happens to be homophobia in everyday society. Some believe that certain lyrics in his song in relation to this issue are absurd (Mincher par. 3). Despite this, Macklemore remained able to get his point across that homophobia is dangerous. Terms like “faggot” or “dyke” have become words used to belittle homosexuals. Even the term “gay” had become negative, used as an insult rather than a sexual label. In his song, Macklemore states that the term is now “a word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it. Gay is synonymous with the lesser.” (“Same Love” l. 39-40) These words are insufferable enough that they have led some to commit suicide. Macklemore made sure to address the depressing issue, “When kids are walking 'round the hallway plagued by pain in their heart...some would rather die than be who they are.” (“Same Love” l. 69-70) In a country where gay marriage is deemed illegal it is understandable that there is a lack of hope for the younger members of the community. In turn, he offered an optimistic ending to America’s ruling on same-sex marriage by depicting one in the music
Throughout these decades music has evolved, “The music of today is not like the music of past generations and the messages in today’s music are nothing like before. Today’s rap is more about obtaining and maintaining an image, whether that image is fact or fiction is often a mystery.” (RJ4AY) Teenagers nowadays a...
“No law is gonna change us We have to change us Whatever God you believe in We come from the same one” Love shouldn’t have any law you should love however you want no matter what anyone says. No law is going to change us we have to change us before a law does. And no matter God you come from everyone is created and loved the same. “Strip away the fear Underneath it 's all the same love, about time that we raised up” Don’t be afraid from who you are embrace everything about yourself because we are perfect in Gods eyes because he put everyone on this plant for a reason. Also Macklemore states that it’s about time someone brought up this dilemma about gay people being discriminated for being
These six words in many ways defined the late 1980s and 1990s, encapsulating the rise of hip-hop, NIKE, Michael Jordan, and the racial-class narratives embedded in each of them. The problem of such ethos are highlighted in a music video from Seattle’s very own Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
... lines of each stanza and the “Yes” before most lines. This makes the words really stick to you. I think the song is very affective because all of the comparisons he makes are all so true. I also think because he made the song from different perspectives including the blacks, whites, and the government makes a big difference too. It makes it so that you can rather see what it feels like to be in the different people’s shoes.
In conclusion the deeply rooted homophobia that is mistakably reflected in Banton’s lyrics and that, more importantly, pervades the Jamaican society, is a very controversial issue. Not only is there the question of whether Banton is correct because he is singing about his culture but despite the fact that he is expressing his beliefs does he have any right to threaten the lives of human beings.
The differences in the two song show that there are many differences between music in the 1980s and 2000s, especially, if the two music is not from the same genre. Although these two song differ in persuasion and the moment in which they were written, they are all meaningful for their audience that appreciates their
In " Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke and Pharrell it talks about how a men humiliates a women.This song talks a about sexiest men and how he caresless about womens rigths or feelings, this song made alot of people angry becaause of how it talks about women.This song actually compares womens rigths and feelings to animals
These are the lyrics to the rebuttal of Blurred Lines, called Defined Lines. This song is the feminist version of Thicke's original song lyrics.
Hate, a passionate dislike for something or someone, has taken part of every war in the world, whether it is a political or civil one. Macklemore, the rapper of the song “Same Love”, uses powerful lyrics and imagery in many of his songs. It is in “Same Love” that he raps about a social issue that the world has been dealing with since, some could argue, the beginning of time. In the song “Same Love” he uses his rap to speak to everyone who can make a change in this world. “Same Love” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis bring awareness to the unjust issue of homophobia by giving people the information they need to obtain a voice and stand up for humans who have had their rights stolen.