The song “Car Radio” by Twenty One Pilots teaches us that with silence we have nothing to block out our thoughts or to hide behind. In the song the artist says “Sometimes quiet is violent” (Twenty One Pilots 14), Twenty One Pilots saying that choice of words is trying to tell us that quiet can sometimes put us in those deep thoughts about things we shouldn’t mess with. “Cause this time there’s no sound to hide behind” (Twenty One Pilots 34), with us having the distraction of a car radio playing we hide our thoughts behind the sounds. “I could pull the steering wheel” (Twenty One Pilots 25), the artist is saying that he could pull the steering wheel meaning he could end his deep thoughts by suicide. The literary element that stands the most
Florida Georgia Line consists of two country singers, Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard. Ever since the two met at college, their careers have taken off. Florida Georgia Line is well known for its hit, “Cruise” which has had over one million downloads sold and topped both country radio charts. Due to this success, a remix was created with Nelly. This original song was released in 2012, and is part of the album, “Here’s to the Good Times,” whereas the remix was released in 2013.
Silence — the sound of quiet, the state of mind, the lack of meaning — all these pertain to its definition. Communication is expanding, noise is increasing, music is becoming more obtainable as people search desperately for a moment of peace or a breeze of silence. As the scarcity of physical silence increases, its value as a rare commodity increases as well. The idiom “Silence is golden” may perhaps only grow closer to reality as time passes, as exemplified by the white noise machines or silent fans entering the market and fictionalized in Kevin Brockmeier’s short story, “The Year of Silence.” In light of this, Brockmeier explores the value of silence and noise in his story without putting one above the other. Through strange clues and hidden
This first song goes well with Holden because we see throughout the whole book, how Holden experiences loneliness. Holden says, “The first thing I did when I got off at Penn Station, I went into this phone booth. I felt like giving somebody a buzz” (Salinger 59) This is just one example of Holden’s loneliness. At this time he is just getting of the train realizing he has nobody to go to and nobody to talk to so he feeling like calling someone even if it’s just to talk to. n the song Talking To Myself, The lyrics say “Is anybody out there?/It feels like I'm talkin' to myself/No one seems to know my struggle/And everything I come from/Can anybody hear me?”(Eminem) This song by Eminem is a good example of Holden’s loneliness because throughout the song it
The Dave Matthews Band has been a musical power house for years. They have meshed together almost every type of music together to create their extremely unique sounds and attractiveness towards their music. Dave Matthews, lead singer and guitarist from South Africa has put together a band that no one will ever be able to create again. Dave picked four extremely talented and unique sounding men to join his band and together they have created some amazing music. The members of the band include Stefan Lessard on bass, Boyd Tinsley on violin, Leroi Moore on saxophone and one of the best drummers in the world, Carter Beauford. Together these men will one day leave behind a similar reputation as one of the all time greatest "jam" bands of time.
"In The Air Tonight" is a strophic composition produced by Phil Collins. The aria consists of an electronic drum set an electric guitar and a prophet to add an additional fullness to the song. The exposition of the monody is at an adagio tempo. The electronic drum kit repeats a drum pattern with 12 drum hits in each loop, while accenting on every third beat {eg.1-2-1-2-1-2-1-22-1-2 | 11-2-1-2-1-2-1-22-1-2}. In the middle of the first loop the electric guitar roars a triple stopping that drags on for fifteen seconds, and is quickly followed by the sound of a nymph sounding guitar riff in the background accompanied by the prophet. The prophet presents the main melody of the song. A series of warm instruments accompany the drum pattern followed by the sound of Phil Collins's tenor voice reverbed a tad to add an eerieness to the song. He first announces in a slightly whispered, muffled voice:
“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
I decided to expand on my Week 5 Post All About That Bass. Our assignment for that week was to analyze Meghan Trainor’s song All About That Bass and to give our opinion on what message we believe the song lyrics and video provided the public with. The second part of our assignment also involved watching “It’s Not About the Nail” and the Dave Barry article that addressed stereotypes about gender and what affect they might have on individuals.
Ever since I was young, music has been a big part of my life and how I express myself. Music became an extremely important part of my life during my early teen years when I truly began to change physically and mentally. I began to have new experiences with others and began the process of figuring out who I really am. Without music, I do not know how I would express myself or how I would have endured my adolescence.
The selection thesis: “Lorde’s eighth grade graduation was supposed to mark the end of her childhood. But it was her Fourth of July graduation-present trip to Washington, D.C. that enormously marked the end of her greenness, because there she was with confronted the abrasive reality of racism. “The picnic is seen to be Lorde’s mother’s idea which indicates how she takes care of her family as a whole, due to the fact that she provided two different kinds of pickles, covers the peaches individually so they don’t get discolor, and places them in a tin of rosewater for untidy hands. As a way of being a good mother is proven by Lorde’s mother like packing the items her family will need, such as “the marigolds from Cushman’s Bakery and rock-cakes from Newton’s” which is described in the paragraph 4.
My mother has been a very important influence in my life. They have given me moral support when times have been bleak and depressing. In Donald Glover’s song, “Stand Tall”, he addresses how his parents have been there for him; how they are caring when times are rough. As a sophomore in high school, I feel as if I relate to the feelings he shares in the song. Donald starts the song off by talking about his attitude towards things as a 9-year-old boy; he says “when the sun is rising over streets so barren since the evening, colors flash before my eyes”. Donald was raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia, a small city with streets that didn’t have much life to them, I feel as if the same description applies to Ashland in the sense that Ashland is a small and boring town.
When a person dies in an accident or become disable because of an accident, it is not only a single life will be effected by a preventive accident, it is about the emotional connection to those life of so many life who will be suffering because of the devastating accident. According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “In 2013, 2,163 teens in the United States ages 16–19 were killed and 243,243 were treated in emergency departments for injuries suffered in motor vehicle crashes.1 That means that six teens ages 16–19 died every day from motor vehicle injuries”(CDC). Today alarming numbers of teens are dying not because of drugs, not even from drinking and driving, but because of the accident which could have prevented. Today smartphone is gaining popularity on all ages, particularly among the teenagers, and these smartphone also fueled teens who were already engaging on phone while driving. Report published from American Psychological Association that, parents are having a direct role on distracting their kids while they were driving. Forty three percent of teens said that they talk to their parent while driving and another twenty six percent of teen text. ( in need intext citation )If we have so many data and research that are saying loud about the fatality number on distraction teens while driving, why parents are forcing their kids to die. According to the National Highway Traffic Administrations year 2011 report, teenager from age fifteen to nineteen years make ten percent of all drivers who involve in a fetal crash who were distracted while operation moto vehicle; most of them were using a cell phone (NHTSA 2015), we have to acknowledge the risk of our decision and that five seconds of time spending off of road to read a massage will cost a life and
In the music video Radioactive by Imagine Dragons, it opens with a dark gloomy scene with a monophony beat. This video reflects real life problems such as violence and anger that’s shown in everyday life. It begins with a girl taking steps onto the scene that sync with the rhythm of the guitar which emphasizes. Inside the arena, the purple monster has fought and won the battle every other stuffed animal, however the plot twists when the girl brings in a pink bear. Everyone in the audience laughs and jokes when they see the pink bear, assuming she would have no chance against the purple monster. This portrays a gender stereotype because people normally look down on girls since they have always been depicted as weak and helpless throughout
I think that this song helps to explain Fahrenheit 451 due to it talking about, running away from the lies. It’s about opening your eyes and seeing what is going on and trying to put an end to it. This song relates to the book because Montag is trying to do exactly that, along with Faber and everyone who had rebelled in the past. They discovered what the society had done, regarding their lies. They opened their eyes and tried to do things about
When you were watching Frozen did you get the feeling that the hype about the film’s progressive take on the Disney princesses was lacking? You are not the only one. Self-proclaimed writer/activist/student and internet personality Alexis Isabel agrees. Which is why she launched the hashtag, #giveelsaagirlfriend. With the slogan, she hopes to leverage the internet and convince Disney to bring Elsa out of the closet. Responding to the controversy liberals and conservatives began slinging mud. On the left, well-meaning liberals are championing outing Elsa’s sexual orientation as a step forward for the LGBT community. On the right, reactionary conservatives are chanting the worn out slogans of family values and political correctness. Reality is
Buju Banton approach to “Untold Stories” talks about the current situation in Jamaica, detailing the trials and tribulations of the ghetto dwellers of Buju’s own Kingston, Jamiaca. But, through detailing the specific struggles of his own people, Buju lays bare the class warfare which afflicts poor people all over the world. Buju Banton was born Mark Anthony Myrie in 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica. Two decades later, Buju had become one of his country’s top DJs. (In Jamaica, the term ‘DJ’ refers to what we Americans think of as an MC or rapper.) The music was very popular and its best-known practitioners were rich and famous, but the often-explicit and sensationalistic lyrics did not accurately reflect the reality of