Jon Bellion's The Human Condition

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A song is only a piece of the puzzle, but each piece helps to build the full embodiment that the artist is trying to illustrate. In the album The Human Condition, Jon Bellion emits a recurring theme of human nature, mainly what the artist sees about himself, and the audience would enjoy this album because of its meaningful lyrics. The Human Condition is the perfect title to snapshot Jon Bellion’s new album because of the ever present theme about his own human nature. The album kicks off with He Is The Same, which is a message to Bellion’s fans about how he handles his success, “Couple million in the bank, but, nothing has changed, he is the same”(Bellion). The artist starts the album right away with this image in order to reassure his fan base that because they were so loyal and supportive of him that he won’t change. Bellion has the opportunity to bathe in the fame and fortune, but he instead chooses to keep living a regular life without spoiling himself. The album then goes into 80’s films which sets the mood for a tangent theme of human nature, which is love. Bellion does it using nostalgia, in order to make to make the idea seem more innocent than it …show more content…

He uses lyrical illustrations such as “There is a potion in your lips, so sweet, I'd die, there is an ocean in your hips, so deep, I'd dive” from Overwhelming, and “Cause I had a fire, passion and desire, now all I require are circuits and wires”. powerful imagery to create clever and relatable description for the audience to feel and develop in themselves, which ultimately comes back to connect them to the song and the artist. Using objects like potions, the ocean, and having no heart like robot, draw the listener in with creativity and unique comparison to Bellion’s condition in the

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