Theme Song Analysis Essay
Getting Better
My theme song is "Getting Better" by The Beatles. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in 1960. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, members of The Beatles, became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. In 1963 their popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", and as the group's music grew in sophistication in subsequent years, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, …show more content…
Throughout the song it talks about how school is hard, but it gets better. In the song it says "Filling me up with rules/Ive got to admit it's getting better". Those two lines mean that the school is making too many rules and that the students don't have any freedom, but it gets better. This relates to my 8th grade experience because when I started 8th grade, they had a bunch of rules. Two weeks into 8th grade, the school let 8th grade have more freedom and it got better.
I've seen some bullying in this school before and these lines explain similar things to bullying. I used to be cruel to my woman/I beat her and kept apart from the things that she loved/Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene/And I'm doing the best that I can. The man is being cruel to his woman and he tries to change his ways. In this school I saw someone bullying a fellow student and a few months later. I saw them again and saw that they were friends. This shows that enemies can become friends.
"Me used to be angry young man/Me hiding me head in the sand/You gave me the word/I finally heard/I'm doing the best that I can/I've got to admit it's getting better". These lyrics relate to my school life. I used to get frustrated from hard homework because I couldn't figure out the solution. A teacher helped me with the homework and now I'm getting better at
My theme song is "Getting Better" by The Beatles. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in 1960. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, members of The Beatles, became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. In 1963 their popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", and as the group's music grew in sophistication in subsequent years, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, …show more content…
Throughout the song it talks about how school is hard, but it gets better. In the song it says "Filling me up with rules/Ive got to admit it's getting better". Those two lines mean that the school is making too many rules and that the students don't have any freedom, but it gets better. This relates to my 8th grade experience because when I started 8th grade, they had a bunch of rules. Two weeks into 8th grade, the school let 8th grade have more freedom and it got better.
I've seen some bullying in this school before and these lines explain similar things to bullying. I used to be cruel to my woman/I beat her and kept apart from the things that she loved/Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene/And I'm doing the best that I can. The man is being cruel to his woman and he tries to change his ways. In this school I saw someone bullying a fellow student and a few months later. I saw them again and saw that they were friends. This shows that enemies can become friends.
"Me used to be angry young man/Me hiding me head in the sand/You gave me the word/I finally heard/I'm doing the best that I can/I've got to admit it's getting better". These lyrics relate to my school life. I used to get frustrated from hard homework because I couldn't figure out the solution. A teacher helped me with the homework and now I'm getting better at