Lyrical Essay The song I am writing about is called “King for a Day” By Pierce the Veil. The band consists of the following, a lead singer (Vic Fuentes), a drummer (Mike Fuentes), a lead guitarist (Tony Perry), and a bass guitarist (Jaime Preciado). The band originated in San Diego, California after the original band “Early Times” disbanded in 2003.
In the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Stacey’s perspective of friendship with T.J. and Jeremy is unique and this affects the decisions he makes in Chapter 7. Stacey allows T.J. to do almost anything around him, even though T.J. is rude and naughty. But, T.J. is still Stacey’s best friend. Stacey is pretty rude to Jeremy even though Jeremy is super nice to the Logans and T.J.’s family. Stacey’s friendship with these two boys are very different.
The song “Louie Louie” covered by the Kingsmen, a garage band from Portland, Oregon, is considered the first major hit song from such a band. Many garage bands from the 1960’s were simply one-hit wonders that were only well known by locals. The Kingsmen managed to break this mold; most of their fame was contributed to their version of the 1950’s song “Louie Louie” written by Richard Berry. Personally, while I am able to admit the song is fun to dance to, I do not see what made this song so appealing to listeners. The vocals are completely garbled to the point of being impossible to understand, which led to an FCC investigation, but it was determined that there was no profanity or explicit sexual references in the lyrics.
Music carries each and every one of us to a new awareness. It can reach to the innermost part of an individual. Music can envelope our emotions from tears all the way to our joy. It captivates and motivates. As I attended a concert on Saturday, November 7, 2015, Lynyrd Skynyrd performed with power and feeling to their audience.
Frank Ocean once said, “When you 're happy, you enjoy the music. But when you 're sad, you understand the lyrics.” Why does one have to be sad to “understand the lyrics”? Evaluating a song and being given the ability to relate enhances one’s respect for the composer. For example, when one first listens to “Danny’s Song” by Kenny Loggins, they probably believe the song is about love, however, once a person analyzes the lyrics the realize that the song is actually a story of a couple who are having a baby boy.
Some of Count Basie’s most famous pieces include: “Jumpin’ at the Woodside”, “April in Paris”, and of course, their signature piece, “One O’Clock Jump.” In addition to releasing many many albums, Basie and his band also starred in many films. Meanwhile, Basie himself also starred in films such as “Hit Parade of 1943”, “Cinderfella”, and “Blazing Saddles”. Throughout his career, he and his band were also very innovative, creating many new styles of rhythms that would eventually be essentially be key to advancements in jazz. Throughout his career, Basie worked with many other famous people including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Nat Pierce and Tony Bennett.
In Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s song “Waving Through A Window”, Benj Pasek is acting as a Highschool boy named Evan Hansen in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen and sings about his rough time to try to fit in among his peers with his anxiety in High School. The song is saying that he is still trying to fit in with his peers now and in the past. The theme of Evan’s anxiety and his awkwardness is highlighted by metaphors in the song. First, the lyrics “I’ve learned to slam on the brake/ before I even turn the key” shows that Evan is taking precautions before he lets himself make a mistake because he is afraid to put himself out there.
Theme: Friendship Song: “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” – Randy Newman “You've got a friend in me. You got troubles then I got them too. We stick together, we can see it through cause you've got a friend in me.” Justification: This song relates to the relationship George and Lennie had because even though Lennie was always getting in trouble, George was beside him no matter what. Also, when they got to the ranch, Slim said to them that is not common to see such good friends like George and Lennie, who travel together and look out for each other.
The story titled the Long Black Song has a controversial balance of power that is shown throughout the narrative. As time progresses, the struggle between men and women is heightened and there seems to be a passive partner paired with a mastery one. Sarah, a married housewife, was portrayed as being powerless within her own race, but when compared to the white man, Sarah gained physical and mental strength because she was curious about how being with the opposite race would feel, as well as the fact that black men were exceedingly domineering. Sarah was portrayed as a very frail character when equated to her husband, Silas, because the black men are the most dominant partner within an ethnically similar relationship.
There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale shows nature’s apathetic viewpoint on the actions carried out by humanity. The poem opens with a beautiful description of nature, with “ Swallows circling with their shimmering sound” (Teasdale 2) accompanied with “Wild plum trees in tremulous white” (Teasdale 4). Juxtaposing the beauty of nature, Teasdale continues to describe in the second half of the poem, how a war that completely obliterated the human race had just occurred; thus, revealing a human on human conflict. The poem ends with nature being either oblivious, unaffected, or indifferent to mankind’s absence.
“The Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash explains how Hester felt as she sat in the prison cell awaiting her punishment with infant, Pearl. The song talks about an inmate who is describing everything good about the free world. Johnny Cash sings, “and I ain’t seen the sunshine, since I don’t know when.” This is similar to The Scarlet Letter because Hester is never portrayed as being in the sunlight just like Johnny Cash describes. He talks about what is happening in the outside world and how, if he had the choice, he would move as far away from the prison as possible.
This essay will discuss the uses, strategies and the meanings that are generated by editing in cinema. The films that this essay will be focusing on are Psycho and Singin’ in the Rain. Both of these films are very different to each other and therefore use editing in varying ways in order to give the audience a different perception of the characters as well as the setting that these characters are involved in. Psycho focuses on building suspense for the audience throughout the film using editing, camera work and sound. This essay will be primarily focusing on editing with the discussion of camerawork where relevant.
E SONG “I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU”, AS SUNG BY DOLLY PARTON AND WHITNEY HOUSTON The song “I Will Always Love You” is one of the most iconic songs of the 21st Century. This song has been widely covered by professional artists and cover singers until today. However, two of the most iconic renditions have to be from Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston. If I were to compare these two renditions, I would prefer Whitney Houston’s version of the song.
The five song playlist that I chose is Fireworks, Set fire to the rain, The way, Love the way you lie and Firestones. All of these songs relates to the novel in different ways. The song Fireworks by katy Perry relates to the novel Fahrenheit 451 because in this song it is saying if you ever feel Like a plastic bag drifting through the wind wanting to start again. Guy Montag had committed mistakes that he might regretted.
Track 1 (“Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars”): The song’s relaxing to me when I listen on my bed. I enjoy the piano throughout the song. The song start out slow then it was starting to have a faster tempo. It was a thrill to listen to the piano at 1:22 because the piano was play super-fast notes with a beautiful sound. All of the instruments had balanced sounds but to me the piano standouts the most.
