American Noise Analysis

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American Noise The song American noise is a song by the Christian band known as Skillet. This song to me is an anthem for the young generation of our society who feel like outcasts. Most hard rock groups of this present age concentrate on what they feel is wrong with society, but not really doing anything about it. The only element it lacks is to empower the listener that they have a voice. That is what this song does for me it gives me hope that tomorrow is going to come and be better than the day before. That I have a voice in society and I have to be the person I expect others to be. The song starts with a piano melody once the words are spoken the piano tempo is accompanied by a chime/bell of some sort. The lyrics echo or feedback, …show more content…

There are so many truths that people want you to believe just because they say it is so, when you found a live hood on that belief it can be shaky. Because it didn’t come by your own mindset but through someone else’s strong belief in it. When I’m sometimes in a crowded room I can voice my opinion and just shut down immediately, which is why I don’t feel my opinion counts in a way. There are other lyrics in this song they say “1 for all and all for 1…lift up your voice/ Let love cut through the American noise…you’ve got a voice and a song to sing… sing your own song take all the noise/ and make into music.” Just listening to that part with my ear buds just gives me hope that I will be heard even though I’m crying in my closet having a pity party. The way you can hear the piano throughout the whole song gives me a sense of clam empowering that while weeping my endure in the night, joy comes in the morning. The way that the music and the lyrics match up to me at least is perfect. I couldn’t imagine the song using different instruments or even a techno version of it. This is one of the songs where an acoustic version would not be better than the original. If you changed this song into the hard/heavy rock song that the band is widely known for, it would ruin the song. It wouldn’t have same feel to it which means the meaning of the song would be

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