Our next song, Don’t Stop Believin’ is based on the original Glee Arrangement by Adam Anders and Tim Davis. It was written by the composers Steve Perry, Neal Schon, and Jonathan Cain. Don’t Stop Believin’ was originally released by Journey, an American rock band in their album Escape, which came out in 1981. Don’t Stop Believin’ is featured in the final performance of the first part of the series finale in Glee. It is sung by the New Directions with solos by Finn and…
Miranda Lambert is using the power of music to express her feelings about her recent split from Blake Shelton.…
After I annotated this song and actually looked into what the lyrics were saying I learned that not everyone is who you think they are. For instance, you hide a lot of things from people not because you want to ,but because you don’t know how to tell them or maybe you’re afraid of what they will think of you. In the song ‘Demons’ by Imagine Dragons the singer says,”I wanna hide the truth’(Imagine dragons line 8 box 3) ,but then he says,” don’t want to hide the truth.”( Imagine Dragons line 35 box 8) I think that he is having mixed feelings what he should do. He is afraid that if he tells you that you may leave him or you won’t look at him the same way ever again.…
Jermaine Lamarr Cole better known as J-Cole was born in Germany but raised in North Carolina. Cole’s grades earned him a scholarship to St. John’s University in New York. During college, he knew he could make it in the music world. Jay-Z was Cole’s idol. He would stand outside his office, hoping and praying he would run into him, so he could give him a demo of his work. One day, Cole ran into his idol, and a couple of days later he received a call from the man. J- Cole was signed to Roc Nation. In 2011, Roc Nation released his first debut, Cole World. That album went to the top of the billboard 200. Eventually, Jermaine was known for telling stories within his albums. Cole soon released an album in 2014 with no features that reminisced over…
In today’s generation, music can be exposed to any listener. It is not like the mid 60’s, when The Beatles were banned from major radio stations and even countries! Now music can be as political and diverse as an artist wants. Unfortunately music is degrading in quality, but today, situations such as poverty, involvement of hard work and everyday life situations are being heard more of in music. Although music is making a negative impact, one of the albums that I highly respect in the underground scene that states all these problems is “The Water[s]”.…
Imagine just standing on top of the world all of a sudden you fall off. Eddy was a 18 year old music star which had only one song that was a hit. Eddy thought the sky was the limit so he moved to Hollywood and met a girl with a tattoo. When he met this girl he decided to get a tattoo as well Tom Petty’s song , “Into The Great Wide Open” tells about a one hit wonder, a good/not so good part of his life and in a unrealistic fashion.…
Kanye West’s music videos of the song “Jesus Walks” became very controversial in society when it came out because of its references to Jesus Christ. I can see how some people could become very offended with one of his videos because it showed a man dressed up as Jesus. The video I am going to talk about is the Church version of the video. This video depicted the stories of three different people: A prostitute, an alcoholic, and a gangster. All three of them seem to be at a low point in their lives when some angels come and kind of usher them to a church where Kanye West is preaching.…
We all have experienced a moment when a song flashes us back to a particular memory. That memory might either be a bad experience, or a good one. In my case, the song “Kobe Bryant” by Lil Wayne, flashes me back to one of the best experiences of my life, my final year in High School basketball, playoffs and the end of a great chapter.…
Singin’ In The Rain (Kelly/Donan, 1952) is known to be one of best musicals ever made and one of the funniest movies of its time. This statistic can be attributed to the musical numbers that it incorporates. Singin’ in the Rain uses popular music of its time that people may already be familiar with. It works to seamlessly integrate them into a musical about the transition of film from silent to talkies. Additionally, the film is able to utilize them in such a way that every single song contributes to the overall effect of the film in some way. Each song either pushes and develops the film’s conflicts or establishes one of the protagonists’ goals or interests; they use deception of sound or visual presentation like dance to support them.…
The world of a country song writer is a different one, requiring him to prove his capability time and again. With millions of aspiring artists that make their appearance on the scene annually, the song writer has to work very hard to stay adrift otherwise he is likely to sink into anonymity before he can even realize it. A song writer has to face stiff competition and this aspect is even more emphatically seen in the case of the genre of country song writing. This is because country lyrics are comparatively simple in their structural form. They do not need the backing of fine accompaniments. Often the country song writer himself sets music for his lyric which may be a few simple chords of a guitar or a piano.…
In the song “blackbird,” the Beatles sing about what someone is feeling when they are hurt, and how it is difficult to manage when they have no one to turn to.…
In the lyric poem, or song, "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa, the author describes the person he has a strong connection being gone for a very long time. The audience can infer that the author is used to seeing this person often as he says "It's been a long day without you, my friend" and he thought he would never see them again. Through the use of the authors diction the audience can infer when the author sees his friend again he then realizes that love always finds a way and home is where the heart is and that no matter what happens never loose hope or forget the things that really matter.…
The song “Cat’s in the Cradle”by: Harry chapin is about how this father lost something so special to him. One way this song is interesting is by it has some karma. This song is pretty much saying you can make mistakes in your life. One way you can mess up is by not being close to someone that you love.One last thing is by making your family the first priority.…
Lieder ohne Worte (Song without Words) is written by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. It is a collection of forty-eight short lyrical piano pieces of markedly song-like character that he wrote at various periods of his life between 1809 and 1847. They are well suited to the study of musical form because of their artistic value. Op. 19b, No. 1 Andante con moto in E major was written in 1830 and is the first in the collection. The piece is in the key of E major and modulates from E to B to G major.…
Assonance means the repetition of a vowel sound often used to replace a rhyme. In the song “Hey Soul Sister” there are multiple different times when assonance is used. Assonance in this song makes it more of a catchy song. When listening to this song it really makes you want to sing along and get into more.…