Almost everyone has a favorite song, a song that takes them back or sends them forward to a place and time that is not the present. What makes us pick out our favorites? What kind of affect does a song have that it requires us to constantly hum it or sing it at the top of our lungs? While I cannot speak for others without some kind of group consultation, I can explain the things that make me feel so intensely about this song, "Lithium," preformed by a 1990s grunge rock band, Nirvana, and sung by Kurt Cobain.
The introduction to this song makes me think of a nursery rhyme. It takes me back to being a young child singing "Ring Around the Rosie" and laughing and playing with others without a care in the world. Though this feeling only lasts a few seconds, and I know that the feeling is going to fade, I delight in the happiness that I feel during this brief time of being taken aback. I find it amazing that I receive this feeling with only an electric guitar introduction, music only, no lyrics.
As Cobain sings "I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends/ They're in my head" (nirvana-music), the opening lyrics state of a great happiness, so you expect the song to continue on with happiness. If you listen to only the music, which makes you want to bounce around, and not the lyrics, you will continue on with this perspective. The important thing is to keep an open mind when listening about how he finds his friends in his head. I like to think that he believes that he can only trust the voices in his head because of a mistrust issue that has formed from a past aggravation. At least that is how I feel and I would like to think that the author would have the same feelings that I do about the lyrics. I remember sitting i...
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...have that around me. If I gave into what they were doing, I would be giving up my freedoms, just like the person in the song will not give up freedoms.
I also feel that this song is very personal to the singer. I sense a lot of emotion when I hear the song and read the lyrics. There seems an immense amount of individualism and freedom referenced. Someone tries to hold down someone else because of different views, but the latter of the two stands up for themselves and overcomes. I believe that is why many people hold onto this song. It grabs you with a memorable introduction, and holds onto you with its powerful and true lyrics.
Work Cited
Cobain, Kurt. "Nirvana Lyrics, Nevermind." Nirvana-Music.com. 1996-2004.
http://www.nirvana-music.com/nirvana-lyrics-nevermind.html.
There are a lot of songs to choose form when there is songs that break down norms and one that reinforce some. There are songs that mean nothing. Great songs always have a hidden mean behind them even if when listen to them we do not know what they are.
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This song brings back happy memories of me and my sister. Sense i didnt see her much growing up, whenever we saw each other we would dance parties and my mom would paint our nails. This was our favorite song and we would play it over and over until everyone would get annoyed. It was a lot of fun and we still play this song sometimes when we see eachother now, its like a little memory of our childhood. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOHAogvC6c4
...orgettable. Research shows that “There’s this unifying force that comes from the music and we don’t get that from other things.”(Landau) Bruce Springsteen is a great storyteller and has captured some of the experiences of the American working class. Even when the lyrics are dark or the subject matter is depressing, he manages to provide hope, too. For as long as I can remember, my mother has been playing Springsteen’s music. When I hear a song of his now, it reminds me of driving down the road with the windows down belting out a song with my mom. As Dave Marsh from Creem Magazine prophetically wrote in 1975, “Springsteen’s music is often strange because is has an almost traditional sense of beauty, an inkling of the awe you can feel when, say, first falling in love or finally discovering that the magic in the music is also in you.” (Bruce Springsteen Biography 2)
... 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.
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In 1817, an aging Swedish chemist was pouring over his work on a late afternoon in Stockholm, Sweden. He was analyzing a strange ore named Petalite that had been procured from an island off the coast of Sweden called Utö. The ore Petalite (which is now recognized to be LiAl(Si2O5)2) had been discovered by a Brazilian scientist, José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva towards the end of the 18th century on a visit to Sweden. This Swedish scientist, Johann August Arfvedson, detected traces of an unknown substance in his sample of Petalite. This was the first discovery of Lithium.
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