Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Mikhala Andrade
November 4, 2011
Poetry of song: G
Song Analysis
“Little Green” by Joni Mitchell
In life there are many obstacles that we face each day. Even though the obstacles in our life might be challenging to overcome. People should always keep their head up, because at the end of the day “life moves on.” Shifting from second to third person point of view, In “Little Green,” Joni Mitchell uses a melancholy tone, uplifting personification, and a natural imagery to convey that life is too short to be upset, and one should be happy.
Mitchell uses a lovely tone to illustrate how life is too beautiful to waste, and that everyone should be a “gypsy dancer.” While listening to the song, listeners cannot help but take notice on how her voice is so calm and beautiful. In order to make her point across, she uses her voice as an advantage to show us that she is not stressing about her problems in life. “You’re sad and you’re sorry, but you’re not ashamed.” Yes Mitchell does struggle, but through it all she is not ashamed of her past decisions in life. The song is a success, because the tone she sings the song in describes her real emotion, and how Joni feels about her own situation.
Joni uses a variety of seasonal personification to convey that life is too short to be upset, and one should always be happy. In the song Joni says “Call her Green and the winters cannot fade her.” In reality winters cannot fade someone. She also says “like the color when the spring is born.” Joni is using the tool: personification because spring can’t be born. “Like the nights when the Northern lights perform,” there is no such thing as northern lights performing or dancing. All of these quotes that she uses portrays the beauty of the seasons, the idea of being a free spirit and a happy life.
Mitchell paints a naturalistic picture in our heads, to show us that we only live once, so we should make the best of it.”Hearing that everything’s warmer there, so write him a letter and say her eyes are blue.” She is describing the baby’s eye color. “Like the nights when the Northern lights perform, there’ll be icicles and birthday clothes, and sometimes there’ll be sorrow.” The author paints a visual in our heads, and also shows us that in life we are going to have our good days. However sometimes we are not always going to have great days, but we should always be happy.
Life is a beautiful thing that God gave us, and Joni helps us the listeners see that. Even through the rough times, people should always look at the positive side. Some people don’t believe that life is worth living, and think that life sucks. But little do they know that God gave us a life, because we all have a purpose in this world. Like they all say “life is good.”
The reason why I picked this theme & genre :)
The reason why I picked this theme & genre is because I love hip-hop and Rnb.I also believe that songs that are in the Hip-hop & RnB categories have a special message that protrays the emotion l o v e .
Same Girl by R.Kelly ft Usher
Mikhala Andrade
Poetry of Song
10.24.11
1 Song analysis
Same Girl
Assuming is to make a judgment or a claim without knowing the truth or facts. In our society, a lot of people assume things. Whether it’s good or bad. Usually when people assume things, they happen to be wrong. Shifting from an introduction of talking about a girl, to the realization that they both are with her. In “Same girl,” R.Kelly and Usher utilizes determined tone, powerful imagery, and scandalous irony to show us the listeners that they have been talking to the “same girl.”
Through out the song, R Kelly and Usher have this determine tone to catch this woman that they believe they have been dating at the same time. Using dialogue they show how they are really determined to catch her, and make her feel really stupid. “Don’t like the way that she’s been going about, going about. Kells what you think that we should do about it, about it? (Usher).” R Kelly replies “Call her up at her home. She won’t know that I’m on the phone. Homie we about to bust this trick. Ask her to meet up with you and I’m going to show up too!” Then Usher responds by saying “and she won’t know what to do! And we’ll be standing there singing same girl.” In this part of the song, listeners can clearly see how determined and focused they both are to reach their goal. Which was to confront the girl, and make her embarrassed and feel ashamed.
In the beginning of the song, R.Kelly also uses powerful imagery to describe the girl that he has been talking to. “She stands about 5’4”, coka cola, red bone.” When R.kelly describes what the girl looks like, Usher makes a connection, and uses more imagery to convey that he believes he’s talking to the same girl. “Wait a minute hold on dog. Do she got a crib? By the waffle house? Do she got a beauty mark on the left side of her mouth? Went to Georgia Tech? Works for TBS? Man I can’t believe this s*** damn!” In this part of the song, Usher and Rkelly feel betrayed and feel that they got played.
Due to the fact they feel stupid for falling for the same girl, they both decided to get revenge. The plan was that Usher was going to ask the girl to go on a date with him, and then surprise her with Rkelly being there. So that way she would feel the same way that they were feeling. However the song is ironic because at the end of the song R Kelly says “and she won’t know what to do, and we’ll be standing there singing same girl.”But in the music video as they were singing “same girl,” the girl that they both thought they were talking to, has an identical twin.
In life we always seem to assume things, when really we shouldn’t be assuming. Due to the fact that we can always be dead wrong. This song has great morals, and teaches us that we shouldn’t assume and try to get revenge back. Because we can always end up looking stupid at the end.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
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