Domestic Violence Songs

Introduction Domestic violence, the connotation of the two words immediately invokes images in everyone's mind. Two songs will be discussed in this paper, the songs relate directly to the issue. The first song is “A Child Called ‘it’” by Buckcherry, released in 2008 on the Black Butterfly album. The second song is “Im ok” by Christina Aguilera, released in 2002 on the Stripped album. Buckcherry’s song, is about a book that is based on a true story of a child that was abused by his mother. Similarly, Christina Aguilera’s song talks about her women who is being abused, you can tell this from the beginning of the song when she sings, “my father's fist would put her in her place.” Both of these song directly talk about domestic violence and this will be shown through analyzing the musical and lyrical connections.

Discussion of the social issue Domestic violence is a terrible thing; to some it is a reminder about a horrid event in their life's, to others it is a idea that is evil to the core. Women are well known victims of abuse, dosomething.org stated, “85% of domestic violence victims are women.” The house next door to you could have have domestic going on inside and you might not even know, violence on women is a prominent issue in todays society. Equally
However, the violence is see in different ways between each of the songs. In “A Child Called ‘it,’” the violence might be known, but not seen by others. The song says, “She makes me stay inside under her cover, takes out her pain on me and not my brothers.” The song makes it seem as if he is the only one that is beaten by his mother, however it does not give us a reason why this happens. As spoken about earlier Aguilera sings the line “my father's fist would put her in her place.” Different from Buckcherry’s song the violence is known and seen, the daughter sees her mother get beaten on a regular