A Thematic Analysis Of 'Where Is The Love?'

Each song that has been created has a different type of meaning that people should pay attention to what the creator's message is trying to say. The Black Eyed Peas who created the song “Where Is The Love?” and released it in 2003 is an American hip-hop group that described their feeling of how the American society is reacting in difficult and easy moments. They questioned “Where Is The Love?” because instead of people sharing the love and helping others society judges, hates, and are involved in racial discrimination. Love is not what society believes in but hating and discriminating is what people have learned to demonstrate throughout the years. Society is the problem for showing terrorism, racism, discrimination as well as forgetting how to be a human being and sharing the love with others.
In “Where Is The Love?” lyrics, from the group song “Wrong information always shown by the media Negative images is the main criteria Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity Whatever happened to the fairness and equality/Instead of spreading love we're spreading animosity” (Black Eyed Peas 61). The group states that the media is not showing love for young kids to learn and teach what is like to be a human being that helps but instead they are showing the opposite. When they show racism hate, discrimination, and terrorism young society begins to learn that is what they need to do when society is in bad or excellent condition. That makes our society fear that love is not being noticed in the