Gravel To Tempo is a song by dream and synth pop artist, Hayley Kiyoko. The music video explains the meaning behind the song, with Kiyoko portraying herself and her own feelings about her struggle with her identity. I think the music video is important, because it reveals the internal struggle of LGBT youth coming to terms with who they are, especially LGBT women. By doing this, Kiyoko created a song that 's relevant to my own experiences, and speaks out to everyone, especially LGBT youth, to just be who you are and find freedom in that.
The music video begins by introducing a High School setting, accompanied by moody, introspective lyrics. From a distance, Kiyoko looks longingly at the popular girls. She views them as something unattainable, while struggling with the feeling of being something gross and
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Instead of using dance moves that appear to be organized and have an intention behind them, Kiyoko instead moves back and forth wildly, as though she is doing whatever she wants and feels like doing, and that is exactly the intention. Kiyoko is trying to speak to her audience through these erratic dance moves, saying that even though she feels different and isolated, and she is afraid of what other people think of her, she finds freedom and acceptance in simply being herself (Kiyoko, "A Closer Look: Gravel To Tempo"). She is trying to extend this message, and ask that everyone be true to who they are as well. This message is emphasized by the fact that Kiyoko sings "I 'll do this my way / Don 't matter if I break/ I gotta be on my own / Lost in this feeling / Don 't ever need a reason / I gotta be on my own" each time before she dances. "I gotta be on my own"(Kiyoko, "Gravel To Tempo") especially sticks out, because she is saying that you do not have to follow the crowd and care what other people will think and feel about you being who you are (Kiyoko, "A Closer Look: Gravel To
Inauspiciously, the film starts with a conversation set in the 1990s as Noni; the British scholar presents a stunning rendition Nina in flair competition. Flash-forwarded to the present day; Noni has packaged herself into a lubricious amalgam unendingly decked out with a stripper gear as well as a purplish weave. Although her inauguration album is yet to be dropped, Nina has already shown several hits besides her rapper boyfriend who is Kid
Her movements a very angular and repeated. She continuously rocked from side to side and had very sudden, sporadic movements. Grief isn’t an easy thing to experience so making her movements like that had a purpose. The movements play a big role in making people feel sadness and grief. The movements are very unusual and abnormal, people don’t think of Lamentation when they hear the word “dance”, dance usually flows beautifully but this dance doesn’t. The angular shapes create an uncomfortable feeling just like grief does. At one point in the dance she has her hands pressed together as she looks up as if she is begging, then she suddenly drops her weight towards the ground just an inch as if she is weak and can’t hold herself up. The feeling you get when this happens makes you feel the grief she
Ja Cole starts off his song with descriptions of this girl he sees. “She was in my math class, long hair, brown skin with a fat a**.” (Cole). “It started so innocent” (Cole). The innocence between him and the girl is because they started with no intention of doing anything with each other. He sees her but he doesn’t quite get to talking to her. The relationship starts developing when he says “I was a young in straight crushing trying play that s*** cool but he couldn’t wait to get to school” (Cole). He is saying that his new found love for this girl had him happy to be in class every day. He always looked forward to his conversations with her in class. Ja Cole starts writing notes in class with the girl about sex. He tells her “of
In " Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke and Pharrell it talks about how a men humiliates a women.This song talks a about sexiest men and how he caresless about womens rigths or feelings, this song made alot of people angry becaause of how it talks about women.This song actually compares womens rigths and feelings to animals
The whole music video is in remembrance of the little girl Aiyana Jones and to show its audience the injustice it served in America (Alexis 5). The music video does not focus on the lyrics, but focuses on a whole different story. Although the music video is about the war between the government and drugs, the lyrics and the music video share a mutual message and that is to seek peace not only in the community, but also in our minds. Today, there have been issues on police brutality and unlawful arrests. This music video really illustrated different point of views of different people such as the victim and the policemen. Although the music video displayed a different message, the lyrics also provided a great message to people especially young women. Both music video and lyrics
The opening scene fades into a girl rolling along a wheelbarrow. A horse is trotting along in front of her. Both of these indicate that she is in a rural area or on a farm. The camera is behind her and we don’t see her face. It is lit naturally and demonstrates deep space (it focuses on the breadth of the entire view of the camera). The camera then cuts to a shot of a boy on a bicycle, in a similar setting as the girl. The sun is facing the camera, creating a natural glare. He rides towards us and then goes out of view. We cut again to the girl, this time closer up. We see her face for the first time. She is probably around 8 years old. The music is a soft, playful piano piece that goes along with her footsteps as she is playing. There are a series of cuts between the boy and the...
If we just simply look at the video from a viewer’s perspective, we will just see a poor farmer boy falling in love with a rich and powerful girl. We must look further than just the basic of the video and pay attention to the behind the scenes meanings of each image and object. In the last couple of seconds of the video, we see Nintuda preparing the time and place for where Hunabatum and Kullasina-Bel will meet to confess their love for each other. She prepares a nice rug on the floor of a room in the Ziggurat. This represents the bridal sheet and represents the high priestess preparing the holy bed where Dumuzi and Inanna come together. When Kullasina-Bel makes his way to the temple, he is carrying with him Billy the Goat to take as an offering to Hunabatum. This is one of the most powerful scenes in the video because it depicts exactly when King Dumuzi brings many offerings to Queen Inanna to prove that he is worthy of her. Once Hunabatum and Kullasina-Bel meet, there is an instant energy that rejoices their hearts and makes them fall in love with each other. Just as the music video ends, we hear two last lines of the song which utter “Let it flow from eat to mouth, Hunabatum and Kullasina-Bel kiss sensually with no doubt” (Hymns 36). This last clip seals the theme of the video as a scared union between both Hunabatum and Kullasina-Bel as they follow the same foundations of Dumuzi and Inanna and where they
The main piece of symbolism that carried itself through the music video was a teddy bear that was once only a little girl’s stuffed animal, but later turns into a meaningful and sentimental piece of hope and a sort of light at the end of the tunnel. The teddy bear was first stolen, taunted, and teased with, in the beginning of the video. Fighting back, the little girl was punished and restrained by the teacher. Building up to the second time the teddy bear is shown in the music video, the girl goes through many traumatic situations. When she is looking outside a window to the neighbors house where there are kids playing inside a castle, she immediately ducks down as she is spotted. She doesn’t know she is being alienated and isolated from the kids next door. All she feels is that she is on her own. So as she grows up, she decides to become “herself”, dressed in dark, grim and Goth looking clothes, but is stopped immediately by her mother. She is being influenced that she can’t be her self without the world not accepting her as she is. The excuse for parents when they see their kids going through sudden changes that are actually a sign of depression is that they are kids or teens acting like regular “their age”. Yet, there are many ways depression and other social problems could be treated but there is no one there to notice the problems itself, “Many parents don 't recognize when adolescents are depressed…” (Hosansky para.
The song is interesting because reading the lyrics, listening to the song, and watching the music video all give different meanings about the song. Reading the lyrics suggests that the song is a depressing story about the inner turmoil the writer is feeling and how he is not sure what to do with his life. But after listening to this upbeat and happy song, it seems like it may not be as dreary as it seemed at first. After watching the music video the message can be reinterpreted to be about the internal conflicts of a soldier fighting in a war and he does not know what he is fighting for. The fact that the music completely changes how the lyrics are interpreted is interesting. Nate uses many literary techniques to make this song mysterious and open to interpretation depending on how it is experienced.
...ry a lifelike, expressive master piece that showing consideration and compassion toward the angst of teenagers who begins to perceive the inevitable changes in life.
Kisa is able to heal through emotional support from people around her. Tohru Honda plays a large role in Kisa’s healing. After Kisa’s mother comes and scolds Kisa for causing trouble to those around her, Tohru in turn shows understanding and compassion. She says that Kisa simply didn’t want to be hated by someone she loved and grew scared. Tohru’s understanding is what causes Kisa to turn back into a human, crying while holding Tohru’s hand. The background music also changes from “Moonlight Sonata” to a softer, higher toned, and happier piano song. She later is shown sleeping in Tohru’s lap with Yuki and Tohru watching her fondly. Kisa then starts to cling to Tohru, and Tohru repeatedly shows her affection towards Kisa. Later, at about 17 minutes into the episode, Kisa receives a letter from her homeroom teacher asking her to come back to school. The teacher tells Kisa that she shouldn’t expect people to like her if she doesn’t like herself. Yuki and Hatsuharu show disgust towards this idea, Yuki saying “I think the way [to get better] is to have someone tell you that they like you so that you can first begin to like yourself” (Tachibana). This line shows both the Western emphasis on self-love with the Eastern emphasis on interpersonal relationships. Yuki and Hatsuharu then go on to tell Kisa that they love her, and she
This film stares five young girls in the stages of adolescents and the challenges they face during this stage of life. The film begins with Massie Block (Elizabeth McLaughlin) waking up to her parents notifying her that some family friends were coming to stay with them for a little while. Shortly after she was notified the Lyons Family showed up, Massie was taken off guard by the looks of the family and decided she had no interest in associating with the Lyon’s daughter Claire (Ellen Marlow). Massie, Claire, and three other girls (Dylan, Alicia, and Kristen) are placed in situations to help them comprehend the facts of life. It is up to each of them preserve through the chaotic demands of adolescents.
The most common theme in hip-hop music videos is the objectification of females. Women are portrayed as sexual objects throughout the videos. In some videos they are seen as a type of reward or trophy for the male. Other times they are seen holding money to gain the attention of men or are even portrayed as slaves willing to do anything to please the men in the videos. According to Catherine MacKinnon, “Objectification involves treating a person, someone with humanity, as an object of merely instrumental worth, and consequently reducing this person to the status of an object for use” (1989). Her point relates to the hip-hop music videos because the idea that they transmit is that women are only objects available at anytime for men’s use. When women are objectified men feel more “powerful” or “successful” by showing the have control over women.
There are many times when feminism is incorporated into song lyrics to give a sense of women’s empowerment in an audience. Alicia Keys is an American Hip hop and R&B songwriter and singer who wrote the song “Girl on Fire” that was released in her fifth studio album in 2012 (Girl on Fire (song), 2014), and was inspired by her son, Egypt. This song is about a lonely girl who is starting to be comfortable in her own skin. It says how everyone is staring at her as she goes by because everyone can see the flame burning and glistening in her eyes. In my paper, I will talk about how the lyrics in this song are very bold that can be applicable to all girls. I will analyze “Girl on Fire” using a method that was developed by Kenneth Burke called cluster analysis (Foss, 2009). Through this method, I can identify key terms in this song and put them into clusters to discover the meaning behind the key words explained: girl, hottest, and on fire.
This shows her strong self-confidence when expressing the way she feels personally about herself. She shows that even though she is not the cute, petite, women that modern society deems as highly valuable, women do not have to look like a model to consider themselves beautiful, worth looking at. Women today put themselves down because they do not think about their inner beauty. The theme she tries to establish is that it is not how a woman looks or what she does that makes her phenomenal, but how she carries herself and her inner mystery.