“Land of confusion,” is a music video, animated by Todd McFarlane and music performed by Disturbed. Disturbed is an American heavy metal band. When the song was produced and released; the lead singer was David Draiman; Dan Donegan was playing the electric guitar; John Moyer played the bass guitar and was a backing vocal, and Mike Wengren was playing the drums. This song is on the album “Ten Thousand Fists,” released on September 20, 2005. The original was played in another music video by the British band called Genesis. Disturbed used drums, bass guitar, and electric guitar; changed one or two lyrics and made it their own music. This music is four minutes and forty-seven seconds long. This music video has met the majority of my criteria on …show more content…
Nowadays you hear songs about “boobs”, “ass”, and (pretty sure you heard it) “I’m sexy and I know it”. If a music has a message, it would be at least worth listening to and one can understand and learn the author's message/perspective about the world we live in. Music is like poetry blended with rhythms and instruments. Music that describes your affection for women’s body parts, drugs, and sex, is not worth calling true music. A music with a message is like a music with a purpose. It is what stays with the listener throughout his/her life. “I must have dreamed a thousand dreams. Been haunted by a million screams,” this lyric from the music video represents that the dreams are the benefited few that gain from the war and the million screams are the innocents’ suffering. “I remember long ago . . . We're not just making promises. That we know we'll never keep,” this verse means to talk about the time of Adam and Eve, and how did evil plague the land. And generation mentioned in the verse describes that the people of the time that the music was presented will try to fix the world by fighting the oppressive forces (3). The chorus verse, “This is the world we live in . . . to make it a place worth living in,” shows that people need to fight to live in a world where war, hunger, terror, and oppression no longer …show more content…
Just Like Dr. Dre’s music “f@$k the police.” It is still a meme in today’s media. People who like the Chuck Berry’s song, “my ding a ling,” this is the one. This music video inspires people to open their eyes and see the true colors of the world and government. The words sung has a deep meaning about the world, how disturbing and vile it really is. The original song by Genesis was aiming at the Cold War and the people who caused it, and this modified version by Disturbed was intended message was about the Iraq war and the politician of its time. The modified version aimed towards the generation of 2006 who understand that the dreams of the thousand people (rich people, Billionaires, PMCs, the masterminds behind the wars) are haunted by a million screams (the suffering of many innocent people around the world). You see in the video tanks, fighter jets, and foot soldiers with a dollar symbol on them (see fig.
The strongest part of the song is where it says, “I keep my toes on the party line/ There is nothing wrong dear, don’t think twice”. In conclusion, the concept that propaganda is a brainwash becomes clear. The government changes the way that reality looks by altering the past, using pure power and propaganda.
It also was aired in New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The song is four minutes and forty-one seconds long and tries to send out a powerful message to everyone. During the song Ludacris and Mary J Blidge try to communicate with the youth
The song sends a positive and peaceful aura; John Lennon hopes we can all live as one. He establishes his credibility, or ethos, by being one of the original
Music is regarded as a method of passing a message. Though some songs do not intend to do that, the message in them is still perceived. The song, “Get up, ...
A couple of other songs they played were “Bothered,” “Cruel and Pretty” and “Changes Come.” If you had never heard the band before tonight, this is where you would probably think all the songs sounded very similar. Slow, piano and sad. The variety lies in the songwriting, if you start paying attention to the lyrics now, you’d have a different opinion. I almost think what they say is so poignant sometimes it should be in a book or poem by itself. But on the other hand, if you took away the way Barquist sings it, or the accompanying instrumentation, I doubt you would get the same idea. They can even make an acoustic guitar sound like it’s in pain and crying.
The video is a true visual reputation of the song showing Soupy struggle and guilt of Soupy trying to save his friend through facial expression and through the lyrics matching the tone of the video like “ staring at a hole in your chest that's been dug there for decades, american broken promises, caught between the lies you've been fed and a war with your bloodstream, I should have been there when you needed a friend,I was off on my own again, selfish and stupid” or "...I know I failed you... I want those
Songs like “We Shall not be moved” represented the determination of those in the civil rights movement in the face of government and social oppression. This lines say,” Like a tree that stands by water, we shall not be moved”. Music had an enormous impact in the war because It promoted the first amendment that is the freedom of speech, it helped the American society to develop by exerting deep lasting influences on the form of popular music paving its way towards musical expressions in times of
... it brought in sultry rhythms and made some adults worried about over-sexualizing music. However, today it is very common to hear something sexual in a song or verse. In today’s music industry, many women are just as successful as the men.
...t of people around you. The images are really helped clarify what the singer really wants to talk about. Without the images in the video some many things could have been interpreted from the song itself. Before I watched the video I just thought the author was talking about war, and specially the wars America was fighting at the time of the song’s release. The music in combination with the instrumentals and video create a piece of art that enlightens the soul.
When watching this I caught on to the meaning of the storyline, and how yeah everything may be all happy and nice because everyone got what they wanted in the end, but that only fixed their problems, not the world, not the reality of what was really happening behind all the glitz and glam that was occurring in their own world. Throughout the song the scene shows American soldiers getting shipped off to war and everyone is so happy and proud that America is in the war and going to win, it then changes to the soldiers marching in the rain trying to stay strong and hold on for dear life as they get battled down. Eventually those who have made it out through the war alive, they become veterans with medals that don’t do much justice to recognize the sacrifice they have made and then turn into forgotten men of the war. I found connections with the economy and war which showed how the president failed his country even with bringing in ideas such as The New Deal that clearly did not work out according to plan. Poverty was a common thing during the depression, and reflecting back to the girls in the scene where they are in their conjoined beds due to lack of furniture and stealing milk from neighbors and soldiers
The relevance of the song was portraying that using drugs and alcohol will help you escape life situations. Regardless of how hard or tough it is. All you need to do is to get drunk or get high, than your problems will flush away. But the video don’t explain the reality of the outcome of how drugs and alcohol will or could affect your lifestyle and how it could lead you to lose your job, family and life. All it shows is the fun side of being intoxicated. Which, it raises a big flag on kids or teens that do have access to the media like the
You can interpret this song in more than one way. The song was mainly written about Billie Joel Armstrong’s father who passed away in September. He left his father’s funeral early and his mother tried talking to him about his father. But he kept responding with “Wake Me up When September Ends.” The song is also a military tribute to those who were serving in Iraq, and about those who lost their lives in 9/11. The music video for the song is about a couple. The girl finds out her boyfriend got drafted to serve in Iraq, and it shows the man fighting in Iraq, that is where the military and 9/11 tribute come into play. Even though these songs are completely opposite they have a few similarities and
Ethos represents credibility or an ethical appeal which involves persuasion by the character involved. Also, ethos is to have a good reasoning with great evidence for why the customer wants to buy this game. They are using famous songs like, "Believer" by American rock band Imagine Dragons. The song was released on 1 February, 2017. As you can see in the video; everyone is having fun and a good time. The video was showing the atmosphere, climate, mood, feeling, and the drum beat with volume changed when it blow up or excitement occur.
The sheet music for this song was written very steady and simply. This allowed the song to be understood and the audience could focus more on the lyrics. More than anything, this song stood out to me because it is an anthem for peace. This song is over four decades old and civilians are still familiar with the words and messages this song portrays. One of the main parts of the song was the lyrics, “Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope one day you will join us, and the world will live as one.” Their is absolutely no reason the world shouldn't live as one! We are one
The song also lists the “Age of paranoia,” which is a reference to the government spying on its own people (under Bush’s jurisdiction). In addition to the anti-Bush message the song also has an anti-media message. The whole hook of the song discusses the media’s need to paint the world as a terrifying place in order to continue to turn a profit, so as a result they perpetuate stereotypes and create unnecessary hysteria, which many Americans found especially offensive when they fed off the fear and uneasiness following the events of