For the past couple of days, I've been wondering what the meaning of this song means. “Crooked Smile” has a lot of meaning to it. I’m here today to tell you why we all should live life to the fullest regardless to our Crooked Smile. This song is meaningful to me because it explains how people today act. Nobody’s perfect but but everyone wants to be. The author of this piece did a very good job of explaining this throughout the song. Who is the author you might ask? Jermaine Lamarr Cole. Jermaine Cole, better known as J. Cole is a Hip-Hop artist. He was born on January 28, 1985 in Frankfurt Germany. J. Cole first got recognition in 2007, after the release of his mixtape called “The Come Up”. The song “Crooked Smile” symbolizes American life today in various ways. …show more content…
In the piece “Crooked Smile” J.
Cole said “ you wake up, put makeup on, stare in the mirror but it’s clear you can’t face what's wrong, there's no need to fix what God has already put his paintbrush on”. I think he's trying to express how people or women in this case try to change who they really are to change their destiny in life. We shouldn’t because everyone has a ending in life. We should not be doing anything now to change our future. He also says “Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn’t even straighten.” I think he’s trying to say people make our nation seem like it’s a beautiful place, picture perfect when it’s really
not. J. Cole’s life is reflected in his music in many ways. The main thing that gets my attention is how real he is. In his music, he is able to touch any topic and make a real life connection with it. What is the moral of the story? Everyone has their high and low points in their life. We need to stop faking whats going on, and show our real selves. Thank you for listening to my speech, and i hope you all got the message. It’s okay, none of us in this room is perfect. It’s okay though, let your crooked smile show.
J Cole’s fourth studio album tries to break away from the typical rap sounding album into something that transcends just a piece of artwork. Instead, it is a piece of artwork. At its core, the meaning challenges the idea of glorifying a life of crime. Using imagery and strong word play, J Cole reveals the consequences of living in this life. However, he empathizes
The genre of rap and hip-hop music has taken on a whole new persona in the generation of millennials. Fortunately, there are rappers such as Jermaine Cole, or “J Cole”, who work to hold on to a pure form of hip-hop and strive to portray a message in all of their songs. J Cole is a southern rapper with a northern style and flow. His main messages in all of his music is to speak the truth about his life and the world around him. You can listen to all his songs from the start of his career to now and you could understand who he is as and essentially listen to his growth as person. His song entitled “January 28th” is no exception to transparent style. The theme of the songs is to let his audience know that he extraordinary and he gives pieces
In essence, this song carries various sociological concepts. It concentrates on the main idea about the social construction of reality and talking about how reality is changing. The song questions the actions and mentally of individuals violating the norms and values of society. The band takes into consideration various factors of why it is happening including the media and religion. As a result they talk about such influences taking control building and developing a sense of self. This is a great song about present day problems and how society changes with them.
This song talks a lot about the baggage of the past that people hold onto instead of letting it go. All that baggage is only going to end up hurting you more and more instead of helping you in any way possible. An example is the opening
Cole’s musical idols, which greatly influenced his musical style. His style captures the attention from younger generations and the adolescent population, whom also came from an uneasy childhood and along the way lost motivation. “I 'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don 't follow what you 've been told you 're supposed to do.” (Music times, 2014) Through this message, J. Cole constantly portrays to be an ambition seeking activist. He hopes to project hope in those who are struggling by sharing his life challenges and voicing how he overcame
J Cole released the song "Wet Dreamz" as a part of his album "2014 Forest Hills Drive". On this album J Cole connected his listeners with his life problems growing up at 2014 Forest Hills Drive. In the song "Wet Dreamz", J Cole raps about his affection and love for a girl. Cole starts his song by using repetition,
There are numerous literary devices used in this song. One of the literary devices used is symbolism. The snowman that the narrator keeps referring to, symbolizes love. The love that the narrator has for her sister and how she’d do anything for her. Her loves her and just wants to be with her, no matter what they do. The empty rooms also symbolize the emptiness that the narrator feels without her sister. The rooms represent the space in her heart meant for her sister, but it’s empty because her sister isn’t there. The door separating the sisters symbolizes the defence mechanism that the narrator's sister puts up. The narrator is trying to get her sister to take that “wall” down so she can comfort her and help her in any way possible. The bicycle is a symbol of the journey that the narrator's sister is on. The journey that she must endure to break the repetitive cycle of her blocking her sister out. The clock is a countdown to when the narrator and her sister will finally break down the wall. It’s just a matter of time. In conclusion, this song represents family and a bond that never be broken. Even through rough times, family will always be by your
The overall themes of this poem are beauty, love, and destiny. The speaker constantly discusses beautiful things and how they can help us. Love can be felt throughout the entire poem. In the first stanza, the speaker verbalizes how he “came with love of the race.” He also expresses love for the beautiful things around him. The theme destiny can be seen in the third stanza when the speaker talks about staying on course. It can also be identified in the last stanza when he describes something inevitable that was about to
To me this song is saying that we should praise God because He cares about every single detail in our lives. I see this as a reminder that God cares about
The reality is that it means something different to everyone, but the underlying tone is a song written from a dark place about pain. The song opens with one minute of distorted machine sound, it then transitions into a slow building (1:11) where the drums eventually come in with a strong beat (1:59) that gives the song a feeling of angst and guilt. The distorted electric guitar reappears (2:30) using the technology of the time to create a raspy and sinister sound. The song begins and ends with the buzz of an amp that feels empty and hollow as if reflecting on the emotions of the artist. His voice is soft and whispered and almost creates the imagery of the voices or demons in your
Why women smile”, I consider this as a very interesting essay. However, the statement of “how deep and how much a woman smile can hide” is totally make me feeling uncomfortable, because I do not think we/woman use our “smile” to hide our feelings or anything at this point. Honestly, “hide” is a strong word to me. In fact, smile is generally recognized as a courtesy in our society. What seduction or evil works has to do with woman’s smile? Are all woman‘s smiles coming with “bad” intention? What about a man’s smile? I understand that there could be many reasons behind a smile, but it is definitely a better way to escalate our feeling, sometimes it could be something that we do not want to share (privacy) or we simply cannot share
Which is similar led back to that central idea which it was importance to revealing emotions. Like when the song said, “Fighting with the shadows in your head,Living out the same old moment Knowing you'd be better off instead” (Mayer).Just as the song address that sometime people live in the past because they can’t see the future that is waiting on their life that fear of showing the emotion showing who they truly are stop them to see the meaning and purpose of their life. Which shows that similar between the song and the book that it was importance to revealing emotions because it define the person who you are today. Also in the song author use repetition to show us the key idea that, “Say what you need to say” (Mayer). This show us that act all the emotion out, say what you need to say, don’t hide you fear and feel act it out don’t be embarrassed to cry, because that was who your truly are, show all you inner fear and feeling about other and yourself. Don’t live a regret of your
J. Cole has always written songs with powerful messages. From the “Lost Ones” to “Crooked Smile”, for the younger audience and grown audience to examine their own lives. There has not been an artist to write like Cole since Tupac. To understand J. Cole you would have to know his background. Born in Frankfurt, Germany and relocated to Fayetteville, North Carolina. His father served in the army and his mother German. At the age of twelve Cole started rapping and at fifteen he took more seriously till he was later signed to Jay Z’s label Roc-Nation. Since being signed to Roc-Nation Cole has dropped two Mixtapes and released three successful albums that have gone platinum. The song “Be free” was released in Mid-August of 2014. “Be free” was
Firstly, I would like to talk about the title of chapter four: The Cynical Smirk. I thought it was interesting because I think it means that when a negative person who does not support or believe in something that will happen is right for doubting for the cause is right, will be happy that were right. So basically a cynical person who is happy that his intuition was right that something would not succeed, but really that smirk is pointless. Being happy that something failed seems unproductive and the results had no impact on the person if they failed is being happy over nothing.
Author Aviva Rutkin describes rising on-body camera use in the article “Smile, You’re on Camera,” published in the July 2015 issue of New Scientist. People worldwide are finding surprising uses for on-body cameras with video recording features. Uses range from security to entertainment. Interestingly, police units in the United States are pairing officers with the latest wearable cameras with U.S. Government assistance. As a result, the police force has a new layer of protection for themselves and the public, which may prevent future unrest. According to Rutkin, South Florida public workers also have on-body cameras, setting a trend to ensuring a higher level of safety. Beyond government use, these cameras are appealing to service groups and