Abel Tesfaye or better known as “The Weeknd” released the song ‘Pretty’ on his Kiss Land album. This video will provide a new perspective to the artist who's music is centered around sex, drugs, and his image as a "starboy".When first listening to this song, you are not completely sure what is going on, the song starts off with “Somebody told me that it was pointless for me to come back, into your arms. Said you fucked another man, finally I knew this day would come.” As these lyrics are being sung, an airplane is landing and Tesfaye starts to walk through an airport. What we learn from these first few lyrics is that Tesfaye was away and that his girl cheated on him with another man. The scene of the airplane shows us that he has come back to see his cheating lover. …show more content…
While sitting in the back seat of a Lincoln Continental, Tesfaye has an odd look on his face like he is accepting pain. This shot shows us the difficulty Tesfaye has to face coming back to a lover who cheated him. When his driver tells Tesfaye that his lover "missed you" could be understood that she missed him so much that she could not wait for
The song I picked for this homework assignment is called Runaway Love by Ludacris and Mary J. Blige. The song is describing the hardships of three young girls and their struggle to survive. Finally, the girls are fed up with the lives they are forced to live and decide to pack up their things and run away. I think this song can relate to many aspects of sociology that we have learned in class. Some examples shown through the song are poverty, education, healthcare, marriage and family. All three girls’ different stories and struggles they face.
My personal choice memoir was The World is Moving Around Me by Dany Laferrière, it was a memoir about the Haiti earthquake. Throughout the memoir Laferrière conveys not only his emotions, but his peers. His choice of words and phrases made this novel not only about the Haiti earthquake, but the country of Haiti and its people. His fixed descriptions show this event didn’t only move him physically, but mentally. Lastly, Laferrières connection to the people out side of Haiti, specifically the United States is key to show the world wide impact.
In Verhsawn Ashanti Young’s article titled, “Nah, We Straight: An argument Against Code Switching,” he makes his objectives clear as he argues against people Right to their own language. The author questions the advantage of standard American English as opposed to other types of English. He refers to those aspect as code switching, which he believes can lead to racist thinking. Code switching, according to Young, calls out for one way of speaking to be omitted in favor of others, based on one's rhetorical situations. The author points out that students are required to translate from Afro-American English or Spanglish to standard English and not the other way around, which is concerning. Youngs method to get around this segregation is the usage
In Lupe Fiasco 's song "Words I Never Said," he collaborates with Skylar Grey to bring awareness to hard topics that no one wants to converse about, by expressing his own emotions, supplying factual evidence, and challenging the credibility to back up his statements. Throughout the song, Fiasco gives his opinion on subjects he finds important, like conspiracy theories, terrorism, and drugs. After rapping about all these issues and more, Fiasco explains, why it is important to stand up and talk about the unfair and unjust problems in the world, instead of being afraid of what people think. Fiasco 's purpose of the song is successful because he exemplifies the feelings that the audience can relate to and uses metaphors, alliteration, and facts to explain his reasoning. He succeeds in persuading his audience, by bringing up his own judgments on real life events, supporting those judgments with
Chris Gastauer Tara Dickerson ENC1102 1 Feb. 2016 Poetry Essay #1 Wasalu Muhammad Jaco or as most of his fans know him Lupe Fiasco is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. Fiasco is known mostly for his conscious hip hop style of music, which focuses on social issues including terrorism, racism, religion, prostitution, child warfare and crime among others. “Little Weapon,” “All Black Everything,” and “Prisoner 1 & 2” are a few of his more famous songs. “Little Weapon” takes the listener on a journey which focuses on children and fire arms. “All Black Everything” considered one of Lupe’s most inspiring songs explores the idea that racism was non-existent and African American people were never enslaved or segregated.
Hip-Hop’s criticism of George W. Bush is a good example of hip-hop’s reflection of Black public opinion. The Republican candidate who already had a low approval rating of 57% amongst African-Americans received an even lower approval rating after his lackluster efforts to support Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 (Jones, 2003; Cillizza & Sullivan 2013).
Though the boys sing together, the words of the song have a different meaning for each. The train, which Wright mentions on several occasions, is a reminder of the trip they will all take to the afterlife. For everybody but Big Boy, this ascension to Glory comes sooner tha...
“Fire away. Take your best shot, show me what you got. Honey I’m not afraid (Chris, Lines 4-5)…” Strength, love, heartache, all words that many people can identify with, but what about mental illness, depression, and suicide. These words are those that humans avoid, pretend they are not there, but in reality those three words effect many more people that was ever thought possible. Over 18.2% of United States citizens suffer from a mental illness (Depression), 6.7% of United States citizens suffer from depression (Depression), and each year in the United States there are on average 42,773 deaths by suicide (American). Now, many people can relate to the words love and heartbreak, but many more can identify with the three words that the world
Her father came back to bring her after a long time he left her. As a girl, she wanted to be with her family, but she thought about all the things, about her father, then she determined that who knows if her father again abandons her. That was the reason she let her father go, and Jameela let all the pain go from her heart. “No, baba. I didn’t say it right. It‘s not that I can’t go with you. It’s that I won’t go with you. I’m staying here.”, said Jameela.(pg.181) This shows that she learned a good lesson that she mustn’t depend on the people who bother her, also she should try to avoid situations which may bother her later like going with baba. She was in a difficult situation which she had to choose going with baba or staying by herself. That situation helped her to be the person that leaves the pain as she didn’t go with
At the time of his life, he was not quite ready to be obligated to such a woman. Maxwell contained lust for other women and wanted to prolong his spinster ways. He was not entirely ready for a monogamous relationship. Within their correlation, with his significant other, he had multiple sexual relations with numerous promiscuous women. He says, "You played me dirty, your game was so bad, toyed with my affliction...( Pretty Wings by Maxwell Songfacts)". Within this song, he acknowledges his unfaithfulness and untrustworthiness infliction. He concedes, in fact, that he toke his spouse for granted. He sounds remorseful as he reflects on his wrong doings. He utters, "I was wrong, you were right, I turned your love into a lie, baby believe me, I 'm sorry I told you lies (Pretty Wings by Maxwell Songfacts)". Eventually, the relationship came to a halt and ended, leaving Maxwell chastened. He liberates his significant other from the pain he has inflicted, allowing gives her the opportunity to be happy with someone other than himself who can give her the love and appreciation she requires. He articulates, "If I can 't have you, Let love set you free, To fly your pretty wings around ("Pretty Wings by Maxwell Songfacts) ". As time continues, his involvement with other women fades as his appreciation and gratitude of what he once had increases. He realized he had
My first song I´ve chosen is Sean McGee, song titled My Story. Mainly the song is about him facing different struggles, obstacles, and all the horrible things and situations he´s been in throughout his life. I can connect to this song and the lyrics for many reasons. One of his lines were ¨Do you know how it feels to be left out in the rain¨? And I have faced times like this when I feel like no one is there or have my back, and in the line he´s trying express how it feels to have nobody and be all alone. Also throughout this song he expresses how everyday you wake up your face with something rather it's just a minor issue or something that will greatly impact your life.
Being locked up isn’t a fun or easy situation. But for Kodak Black, he really exfoliates his time being institutionalized. Being locked away for criminal activity, Black serves his sentence in Florida. Writing this rap, producing this rap, and preforming this rap must bring some great emotions to Black. As I listen, I can hear his feelings in his voice and this is very powerful. Emotions racing out of him, big feelings, soft tones, beats and vocals add to this powerful song. When you hear of Black you think; project baby, hard life, gang related, and self-made. The song I decided to write about is called “Institution”, and was written by Black while locked up. This song demonstrates how prison can affect a person, not only their life around
In the song Location by Khalid the point is to express how he feels towards a girl. He says he doesn't feel like they communicate enough with each other and they need to become closer because its a un health relationship but he likes her alot and says that he wants nothing else but her. He says in the song “focus on communicating” and that “I don't need nothing but you” that shows that he loves her so much. To spend so much time with someone and want to get closer shows you care and that you love them dearly. Also to only look at one person in the way you love them for along time is a amazing thing that is hard to come by. The reason that I know the song is about these things is because He straight up says what I think the song is all about
“Often” encapsulates the masculine side of male R&B singers through various use of lyrics and imagery. The song opens with The Weeknd staring emotionless into the camera, a blank stare almost as if he is in his own world. Showing very little to no emotion is widely accepted as an extremely masculine trait. In one of Devors ' essays he says “men/who conscientiously avoid anything associated with femininity are seen as exuding masculinity”(Devor 139). This can be interpreted as expressing emotion is associated with being feminine, so by not showing emotion The Weeknd exudes masculinity. Further demonstrating his masculinity The Weeknds ' demeanor throughout the music video gives off an air of confidence almost arrogance. He is seen standing
Feeling unwanted from the closest people in your life who turn away from you when you need them the most, is the worst feeling a person can endure. I chose the song “My Story” by Sean McGee, because people young and old can relate to his song. People from different backgrounds can relate to each other when there are living homeless or raised as a foster child. Sean McGee wrote “my daddy don’t know, my momma don’t care, it don’t matter if I’m here, it don’t matter if I’m dead” people all around the world have the same issues and share a common culture. A master status is the most important status a person occupies, this is a key factor in determining a person’s social position.