Music Analysis - Hall of Fame - Nathalia Rodrigues

Hall of Fame – The Script ft. Will.i.am

  The song is considered pop rock. It was written and co-produced by the Script. It was release in 2012 and is the lead single from their Third Studio album. The track features Will.i.am from The Black Eyed Peas.

  The lyrics in this song are very important and stronge because it is about following dreams and making an impact on the world.

  “You can be the greatest”, “You can be the best”, “You can be a master”, “dedicate yourself and you gon’ find yourself”, “ the world’s gonna know your name”, “ You’ll be on the walls of fame” these phrases emphasize the meaning of the song. In an interview with Danny, Mark and Glen, band members, to “Palco Principal”, Mark said we are in a television culture, where anyone can be famous for trivial things and this is a danger to our culture. The objective of this song is to break this criterion to be famous for insignificant things. The message in the song is to do important things and achieve our goals. Mark also highlights that this song was made to inspire common people and not athletes who already have a goal in mind, Mark believes that this song can inspire common people more than athletes, because the athletes usually have big dreams and big plans.

  Seeing this, we can understand the song context, which is concerned for our culture and society. it seems we are in this “television culture” as Mark said, but I complement saying that nowadays the internet culture is stronger than television culture and because of that it appears the alienation.

   Considering the instrumental part of the song, it is easy to see the motivational character both in the lyrics and in the melody because the melody is active and accelerated. The two together help to strengthen the song message.

By: Nathalia Rodrigues de Carvalho

Alone

by Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been

As others were -- I have not seen

As others saw -- I could not bring

My passions from a common spring --

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow -- I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone --

And all I lov'd -- I lov'd alone --

Then -- in my childhood -- in the dawn

Of a most stormy life -- was drawn

From ev'ry depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still --

From the torrent, or the fountain --

From the red cliff of the mountain --

From the sun that 'round me roll'd

In its autumn tint of gold --

From the lightning in the sky

As it pass'd me flying by --

From the thunder, and the storm --

And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view –

Analysis of the poem

   Alone is an autobiographical poem written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1875. This poem expresses his feelings of depression and mixed with the vague sense of betrayal that causes the death of someone dear to the author. The past tense is the verbal tense present in this poem. In a way, Poe’s poems show a particularly troubled period, in the life of the young Edgar Allan Poe, who was only twenty years old when he composed it.

  The poet shows us, in these verses, his vision of the reality, which is dark and how a very young boy is aware that these kinds of thoughts will follow him along his life path and will be elementary essential in his literary productions. In addition, it gives us indications that he, not the others, deals with young people and his vision of what surrounds them. This vision is something that he does not share with the others. It seems because, surely, his friends and colleagues do not understand or accept him. This poem shows us a writer, an artist who finds inspiration in the darkest part of the human condition. This is something, which others would consider negative and however, it is the same for the poet or even greater, in beauty images and more idealized. In the first part of the poem, “I have not been; As others were -- I have not seen; As others saw”, the author is talking about his personality, the difference between him and the other children and also about what he has experienced in his life until that moment, all the things that happened in front of his eyes. The line, “And all I lov'd -- I lov'd alone”, is specifically about the things he liked to do and what used to call his attention. When he says “[…] in the dawn; Of a most stormy life” and “good and ill”, he links the past and present; we can translate this as the beginning of a problematic life with good moments and also the presence of health problems. As we know, Poe’s mother and his wife died of the same disease and he surely wondered why these coincidences happened. In the last part of the poem, he uses elements of the nature to describe the moments when he was used to reflect about his life and that he is haunted by his thoughts. He wrote: “And the cloud that took the form; (When the rest of Heaven was blue); Of a demon in my view”, to exemplify that even when everything seemed to be fine, he was worried about the same problems, there was always something bothering him and making his life the worst possible.

Analyzing these figures of speech, we can notice that Edgar Allan Poe had great ability in summarizing complex ideas into simple words with all his feelings and show us that the mood of the poems he wrote was strongly influenced by the events in his life. Certainly, this piece of his work is essential for the ones who wants to be acquainted with Poe’s mind and his work.

By Gabrielle and Douglas

Analysys of a song - Natália Santos and Emily Gélio.

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Analyis of a song: Rude.
Band: Magic!
Band Members: Nasri; Mark Pellizzer; Bem Spivak and Alex Tanas. (Obs: All members of the band are originally from Toronto, Canada).

Magic! is a Canadian music group, and it is composed of lead vocalist, guitarist, and producer Nasri Atweh, guitarist Mark "Pelli" Pellizzer, bass guitarist Ben Spivak, and percussionist Alex Tanas. Active since 2012, the band has two albums. Their first album is: Don't Kill the Magic, released in 2014, and their second studio album is: Primary Colours released in 2016. They are most known for their hit single "Rude", which charted at number one in several countries worldwide. The band is heavily inspired by the musical groups: The Police, Bob Marley and the Wailers. They are known for having a signature reggae-influenced pop sound.

The single "Rude" was released on October 12, 2013. The song peaked at number six on the Canadian Hot 100 and also proved a great international success, topping the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom and peaking within the top ten of the charts in Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden.

There has been at least one significant remix of "Rude". A remix by Russian-German producer/DJ Zedd was premiered in his set at Lollapalooza 2014. It was released on September 2, 2014, Zedd's 25th birthday. Zedd had said, "I'm gonna give myself a birthday present and release my remix of ‘Rude’ on my bday, sept 2nd!" He also released official, completed full-length audio on his Soundcloud on August 28, 2014, which garnered nearly 400,000 plays within 24 hours. While the original was still in number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100, there was speculation that release of the remix on mainstream music outlets online would assist the original song in maintaining its position on the chart.

This song can be heard by anyone, of any age, without restrictions. It is smooth and its melody is sung slowly, so we can understand what the singer is saying. For educational purposes, the informal lyrics vocabulary can be important for students who do not know. Their language is informal because it uses 'Cause and 'til. The value of the vocabulary present in the lyrics is immense, because through the lyrics we can relate to others contexts.

LYRICS

Saturday morning jumped out of bed

And put on my best suit
Got in my car and raced like a jet, all the way to you
Knocked on your door with heart in my hand
To ask you a question
'Cause I know that you're an old-fashioned man, yeah, yeah

Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?
Say yes, say yes 'cause I need to know
You say, "I'll never get your blessing 'til the day I die
Tough luck, my friend, but the answer is no! "

Why you gotta be so rude?
Don't you know I'm human, too?
Why you gotta be so rude?
I'm gonna marry her anyway

Marry that girl
Marry her anyway
Marry that girl
Yeah, no matter what you say
Marry that girl
And we'll be a family
Why you gotta be so rude?

I hate to do this, you leave no choice, can't live without her
Love me or hate me we will be both standing at that altar
Or we will run away to another galaxy, you know
You know she's in love with me, she will go anywhere I go

Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?
Say yes, say yes 'cause I need to know
You say, "I'll never get your blessing 'til the day I die
Tough luck, my friend, 'cause the answer's still no! "

Why you gotta be so rude?
Don't you know I'm human, too?
Why you gotta be so rude?
I'm gonna marry her anyway

Marry that girl
Marry her anyway
Marry that girl
No matter what you say
Marry that girl
And we'll be a family
Why you gotta be so rude, rude?

Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?
Say yes, say yes 'cause I need to know
You say, "I'll never get your blessing 'til the day I die
Tough luck, my friend, but 'No' still means 'No'! "

Why you gotta be so rude?
Don't you know I'm human, too?
Why you gotta be so rude?
I'm gonna marry her anyway

Marry that girl
Marry her anyway
Marry that girl
No matter what you say
Marry that girl
And we'll be a family
Why you gotta be so rude?
Why you gotta be so rude?
Why you gotta be so rude?

Poem Analysis: For a Depressed Woman 

For a Depressed Woman

I
My friends do not know.
But what could my friends not know?
About what? What friends?

II
She sleeps late each day,
stifling each reason to rise,
choked into the quilt.

III
"I'll never find work."
She swallows this thought with pills,
finds tears in the glass.

By James A. Emanuel (1921-2013) 

In this poem, James A. Emanuel maybe tried to illustrate the situation of many African-American women who suffer alone, forgotten by society. James himself probably saw this situation happen with many people of his community when growing up.

Actually, this poem is a haiku; the author used the inspiration of the classic 3-line poem Haiku and tried to do something new. The poem or haiku is divided in three parts. Together they make a story, but they can also be read separately and still have a particular meaning for each part. The title reflects exactly the poem content. The whole poem describes the bitter routine of a depressed woman and her inner and social conflicts. The author made use of metaphor to make it more clear and strong.

The woman is definitely a lonely woman. In the first part of the poem the lady is lost in thoughts, maybe remembering some old and gone friendships that now she can only think about and it makes her regret being alone. She also seems to be denying her problems. In the second part, the woman is fighting with herself in a bad way, she is not fighting against the depression, she is feeding it when she suffocates each and every reason to get up. In the last part of the poem, it becomes clear that the woman has a severe depression, she is utterly pessimistic, plus she is probably addicted to prescription drugs.

Although everybody knows that  depression is something hard to overcome, the woman of the poem does not make any effort to fight it off. If she had some friends to count on she probably would try to overcome her depression, or at least look for help. In our view, this Haiku poem has a perfect punchline: it keeps us wondering about the friends we have and if we value them or not. The poem also shows that during hard times we can be the ones who hold back the possibility for the improvement of our mental and physical health.

By: Anderson S. Todini and Lais Pires