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Going Through Changes Analysis

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The dark sludge like waters of the drug world often pollute the entertainment industry, more often than not, leaving a destructive trail that destroys a person’s life. In Metallica’s 1986 album Master of Puppets: Track 2 “Master of Puppets,” is a chilling story about cocaine and heroin use, and the destruction it can cause to someone’s life. As time continues, it’s evident that the polluted waters of the drug world have not yet left the entertainment industry, causing multiple deaths. Most rap artist brag about their use of drugs, guns and women, usually in equal increments. However, in Eminem’s 2010 album Recovery: Track 2 “Talkin’ 2 Myself”, track 6 “Going Through Changes”, and track 11 “Cinderella Man”, is his own personal story of his …show more content…

In his song “Talkin’ 2 Myself”, he explains how he abused prescription drugs to numb the pain from this loss. As time continues, his drug use increased to the point of it changing his perspective on life. In “Going through Changes” lyrics, “I sit alone in my home theatre/ Watchin' the same damn DVD/ Of the first tour/ The last tour/ He was still alive/ And it hurt sore/ Fast forward/ Sleepin' pills'll make me feel alright./ And if I'm still awake in the middle of the night/ I just take a couple more/ Yeah you're motherfuckin' right/ I ain't slowin' down for no one/ I am almost homeward bound.”, he explains how his dependence on prescription drugs has pushed his life into a downward spiral; landing him at the threshold of Death’s door. “Wake up in the hospital/ full of tubes/ plus somehow I'm pullin' through/ Swear when I come back I'ma be bulletproof”, he explains after waking up in the hospital, he realizes that this is not what his friend would have wanted; as a result he soon checked himself into a rehab facility. After being clean for some time, he feels like he is on top of the world. In “Cinderella Man”, “Some of us don't get a second chance/ (Amen!)/ But I ain't blowing this one/ (Amen!)/ Naw man, haha/ (Amen!)/ Shit I feel like I can do anything/,” he appreciates the second chance he was granted and refuses to go down that road again. This tends to be rare

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He also uses allusion later in the song along the lines of “You a pistol, I'm a Draco, huh. I could turn you to a John Doe.” And by focusing on the second half of the line he refers to John Doe who was shot in the head, because of his outburst of anger. Besides the fact that he lives the average drink lean, gets females, and shoot em' up bang-bang lifestyle like a majority of rappers, he does well in using figurative language to show the life he lives at the top. Most important is his delivery by using pathos as a way to emotionally connect to his listeners in the chorus saying “When you down,

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Seeing the number of new music albums proved to him just how much he has lost due to his consistent drug use, and made him feel isolated. Once again, it is the drug use that has caused Nic to decrease his engagement in recreational activities important to

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The track generates a solid start to the album. He speaks on a tragic death of a fan in the track. She was killed in a concert he performed at. “Savannah just wanted to see me perform and got hit over stupid shit/I woke up and saw the shit right on my phone, they don’t know who the shooter is”. He then goes in to speak about his lifestyle and the life choices he makes around him that effects the people around him.

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While issues such as sexism, racism, and prejudice still exist, other issues, such as drug abuse and mental illness have also become a topic of adversity as well. That, is not to say that these issues didn’t exist until more recently, but that only in the past few years have they become more ‘acceptable’ to discuss publicly. People like Josh Ramsay (of Canadian rockband Marianas Trench) and Macklemore are high riders to this discussion, Ramsay having battled a heroin addiction before twenty, and Macklemore having had repeated issues surrounding oxycontin. Both famed musicians in their home countries, these men have come out of their addictions stronger, and have both been vocal about the need to deglamorize drug use in the music industry. In Mayra Hornbacher’s

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