Essays on Song

After watching “I Lived” I felt as if I could do more to live my life to the fullest. The boy in the video is unfortunately affected by Cystic Fibrosis, yet he lives as if he does not have it. He does not let it...

Taylor Swift has been on top of the music charts since she started her career. Her most recent album, 1989, has broken many records and has given the public numerous songs that will be stuck in the heads of Americans forever. One of these is...

Multi-grammy winning artist Bruno Mars is a famous American pop artist/writer that expresses very powerful tone in his song lyrics. Incredibly talented and generously blessed with musical gifts, Mars has grown to become one of the most influential names in pop music at the moment....

Why Did I Choose This Song? This song is really fierce and I love that about it. This song to me is about being confident about what you do or say no matter what others think of you. I love the message and the tone...

Dolly Parton is an American singer who originally wrote the song ‘I will always love you’ in 1974 then later on she recorded another version for the 1982 movie ‘the best little whorehouse in Texas’ she originally wrote this song after a breakup. Whitney Huston...

‘Changes’ by Tupac is a thought provoking song about the racism and discrimination people living in lower income neighbourhoods and minorities, especially in the 90s. Being a very popular rapper allowed Tupac to speak for his community and this song is his statement on the...

It has been a long 2-year hiatus for Kanye since his last critically acclaimed album “The Life of Pablo”, stormed our listening charts. Finally, he brings us the self-titled album, “Kids See Ghosts”, crafted from his time and locked away in the hyperbolic time chamber...

Hello is a song by English singer Adele, released on 23 October 2015 by XL Recordings as the ead single from her third studio album, 25 (2015). Adele co-wrote the song with her producer, Greg Kurstin.”Hello is a piano balla with soul influences, and lyrics...

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better known as Lady Gaga is one of the most unconventional woman artist and one of the best-selling of all time. She started her musical career at 15, escalating faster than anyone every music charts. She currently has several Guinness World...

BTS came from a small unknown company in South Korea. In 2013, BTS made their debut. On May 10, 2015, BTS released a song called “I Need U”. Throughout the MV, symbolically there were signs of depression that some people may experience in their lives....

The first time I heard Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” song, I thought it was about a man’s devotion to a woman, and for some reason he associated it with a church. But as I continued to listen to the song, I understood that it...

When you really like something, you often don’t give it a second thought. Without you realizing, it becomes a staple in your life – like food or water, and you can’t imagine its absence. It’s a part of you. That’s how music is to me....

Song Report “Hey Jude” is a song by the band The Beatles and was written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon. It was first released in August 1968 under The Beatles label ‘Apple Records’. Hey, Jude runs for 8 mins and 10 secs. The Beatles...

The song “Wildest Dreams” by Taylor Swift in her album 1989 portrays a love story of fictional celebrities Marjorie Finn and Robert Kingsley during the shoot of the film “Wildest dreams” in Africa. According to the fictional story, the relationship between the actors commence during...

A composer is a person who writes music. On the other hand, a performer is a person who entertains an audience. The song Stand By Me was composed Ben E. King (Benjamin Earl King) in 1961. After he died on April 30, 2015 the band...

Kanye West, also known as Ye, is considered to be one of the most influential rappers of his generation. Raised in Chicago, Kanye West began producing music in the early 2000s and released his first album in 2004. Since then, West has experimented with a...

Since it was first invented music has played a huge role in the lives of people. From generation to generation music defines people and is a means of expressing concerns and emotions to the audience. Florida Georgia Line is one of the most influential country...

Though James Joyce’s realist short story “The Dead” and T.S. Eliot’s mock-epic poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” both describe a climate of self-conscious emotional inarticulacy and division, the protagonists of each work deny themselves the pleasures of the present by their refusal...

In his short story “The Devil is a Busy Man,” David Foster Wallace asserts that Americans are obsessed with maintaining a facade of sincerity; ironically, this desire to appear sincere is the tragic root of the country’s widespread insincerity. The narrator frets over the perception...

White Privilege Macklemore’s “White Privilege,” is an eight minute song that expresses a diverse perspective on the Black Lives Matter movement. Usually, when one hears about the movement, it is from the voice of an African American. Though, this work provides the view of a...

Ariana Grande Ariana Grande is a famous American singer and actress. She was born on 26th June, 1993 in Florida, United States of America. Her father was a graphic designer while his mother was the CEO of Horse-Mccann Communications. Ariana’s parents had relocated to Florida...

Sometimes, you hear a song and immediately fall in love with the artist, even if you may never have heard of them before that moment. A band that I have experienced this with is Lunatic Wolf, a six-piece folk band from South Africa. Despite being...

After both listening to and reading through this speech a few times I think I havean understanding of what John Denver is trying to say. At first I thought he wasagreeing and advocating for the censorship of music but after thinking about it Iswitched my...

Nas (Nasir Jones) is a typical model among all the educational singers. Nas is a rapper whose music and public discourse can help white adolescents disrupt America’s dominant ideology of race. Nas has specifically used his music as a platform to challenge color-blindness and America‟s...

Throughout time music has been used to heal and provoke emotion in the listeners. The melody of a song can bring one to tears, laughter, or even give them chills. People connect and come together through lyrics and their meanings. During severe times music gives...

Billie Holiday (aka Lady Day) was and still is a very influential jazz artist and singer. Holiday’s iconic jazz songs and albums thrived in a time when America was going through a time of racial intolerance. This project began with Abel Meeropol’s (aka Lewis Allan)...

“Wide Open Spaces” by the Dixie Chicks is a clear example of a song with Transcendental lyrics. It is about a girl leaving home to achieve her goals in life, an example of the American dream. “A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone”...

Introduction Beyoncé Knowles started her music career at a very young age with a group compiled of her childhood friends. Her father quit his job in the cooperate world to help manage the group. After reaching some success; Beyoncé later broke off from the group...

I chose “Autumn Leaves” by Stan Getz. In this version of the song, only Stan Getz is performing. In the original version of the song, it is by Joseph Kosma and the lyrics are by Jacques Prevert (youtube.com). I chose this particular version of the...

Ted Hughes’s book, Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow, is a collection of 67 disturbingly dark poems that explore the evil aspects of life, and human tendency towards violence. The book, dedicated to Hughes’s dead second wife Assia Wevill and his daughter...