The Meaning of: “Rise” by Katy Perry “I’ll fight it, I’ll fight it/ I will transform/ When, when the fire is at my feet again” These three lines of lyrics written by Katy Perry are quite beautiful. When I think of these lines I can feel the emotion that Katy must’ve felt during the process of writing this song. The song “Rise” is very inspirational and moving to someone who has gone through hard times and have conquered that troubling time in their life. As a musician I enjoy listening and discovering new music that has meaning and emotion in the song, because the music itself is raw and is not like any other music, that basically sounds the same. The lyrics to that Katy Perry has written over the years of being a musical artist carry different meanings and messages that mean so much to her throughout their life. Why does Katy Perry’s “Rise” mean so much to me? One reason why this song has been very important to me in my life is because of all the hard times that I’ve gone through last year (2016). As a musician I’ve notice that the music industry has been creating the “same” music these days barely having meaning, inspirational and is coming to a slight …show more content…
My senior year was a year that I wish that several events never happened because these events impacted my life in big waves. The biggest thing that happened that year was when a close friend of my committed suicide. Him and I were close friends, to the point that we called each other family. I still don’t know why he did it to this day. The song “Rise” has helped me understand that my life will get better. Yes, his death will be with me throughout my life but I need to push on and live my life to the fullest. I listened to the song on repeat until my mom told me to stop. This song had helped me push through that the tough times and a way to be “close” to him once
There are a lot of songs to choose form when there is songs that break down norms and one that reinforce some. There are songs that mean nothing. Great songs always have a hidden mean behind them even if when listen to them we do not know what they are.
Whenever I play this song, I can’t help but remember my childhood. My parents struggled financially but, that was never an excuse for them. They always took my brothers and I out on small adventures. One of the most memorable memories I get when I play this song is when my parents would take us out to park to have a barbecue, while my brothers and I ran through the park till we became tired and hungry. Whenever I need a break from the world, I listen to this song just to remind myself of those special moments, even though those days won’t ever return, they are memories I will always treasure.
When I was twelve years old, a close friend of mine passed away. At first, I didn’t know how to process what was happening. How can someone I’ve known for the majority of my life be gone? But then it finally hit me. My friend was really gone. There would be no more days challenging
When artists go through an emotional down fall in there career’s you see some stars fall and other’s reflect to back when it all started to better themselves. As Katy Perry stated in her interview with U.S.A Today Prism is “less over-the-top and more “me””. I have come to realize that when artist put out an album, it isn’t just to see how many copies they can sell but it’s about making music with feelings, getting into there inner self and reaching out to those who admire them, the social text of the music is the heart of every song and the album altogether. A lot of the time artist will write about their emotions but never really behind the sense of what occurred. Here I will take two artists and break down there trails and show how they made them into triumphs through the context of there music. I will describe how these artist were able to create pieces of music that took over a particular emotion and were able to get it’s point across to the listener. These artists will be Katy Perry, and Britney Spears.
I started high school with a broken heart. My father died when I was 13, not long before I started high school. I worked hard in school not only for him, but because working hard is who I am. He taught me that if you want something you have to go out and get it yourself and what I wanted to do was go to college. I have put myself through a lot in just this past year alone, applying for scholarships nonstop and earning my license so I can finally get a job. I want to be a successful, responsible person so I can make my father, wherever he is, proud of how far I was able to come after he was gone. Yes I’ve gone through a tragedy, but I’ve let it motivate me in a positive way, pushing me to be the best I can be.
Of course, as any other young girl, I didn’t really know what real pain was. I mean the type of pain when losing someone, more specifically, having someone taken away from you. I remember everything like it had just happened this morning. Long story short, I had my dad pulled away from my arms due to immigration issues. I wasn’t easy going through that. I had to go to school with a smile on my face and let no one know what had just happened. Up to this day, I get choked up just thinking about it. It wasn’t easy then, and it's still not easy today. With all the pain going around, I never stopped to realize I wasn’t the only one who had experienced that. As I got older, I became aware that many of my fellow classmates had the same thing done to them, sometimes even worse.
She describes how it affected her and how he was a negligent lover. She goes so in depth with her words and I felt just as hurt as she did when I heard the song. This can be interpreted as a message to all women and men who feel as though they are not being treated fairly in their relationships. If your significant other can drop you in a heartbeat, then they do not deserve your love. “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You” is a remake of a song by Frankie Valli and the 4 seasons, but it ties in with the album so well. She speaks of a man that did her wrong, but she cannot seem to stop admiring him. Something a lot of people can relate to. There is nothing wrong with admiring from afar, but letting that same person that hurt you back into your life is a different story. Essentially this is just a playful song, and she is not encouraging people to start loving the abuser all over again. The final song is called “Tell Him (Live),” to wrap up the album she talks to everyone that did her wrong. She says despite all that they have done, she does not regret one thing in her life and she is happy with the person she is
...r songs are still covered to this day and are known throughout the world as the epitome of torch singing and general beautiful singing. Due to her immense usage of torch singing, her music makes the listener feel what she is feeling. If the song is about lost love, the listener feels sad, but if the song is talking about how she feels when she is in love, the listener feels happy. The emotions that the listener feels are reflective of those of the singer. If Billie Holiday were alive today, one would hope that, however unrealistic it may seem, she wouldn’t be as involved with drugs as she was during her lifetime. Holiday would also develop her own style, one different than any style heard before. One could also assume that she would be happy with the state of racial relations today, seeing as the music industry has been diversified throughout the past thirty years.
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
She’s showing a lot of Expressed Emotions she spills all her emotions out in this song, the way she talks in the song is like she’s very angry. Overall the song does boost my ego a little bit every time I sing it aloud. In the “Others” category I’ve listened to the song called “How To Save A Life” by The Fray, my emotions of this song are melancholy, because it talks about how the singer couldn’t save his friend, and wants us to go and help somebody out there that is suffering. My emotion for this song was sad and it was my body’s initial response towards it by just reading the title and listening to
These songs made their way throughout history. People listened to these songs during protest and rallies when they wanted to feel a sense of prosperity. For example, during 2011, protesters on Occupy Wall St. scattered around the world “challenging social and economic inequality, as well as corporate greed and its influence upon government policy. The uncompromising sentiments expressed on Bob’s “Get Up Stand Up”, lyrics that are repeatedly chanted at these demonstrations, seem to have directly inspired the protesters’ dissenting stance: “Some people think a great God will come down from the sky, take away everything and make everybody feel high/but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth and now we see the light, we’re gonna stand up for our rights!””
...encouraging impact towards her listeners. “Skyscraper” is filled with emotions by revealing a few important qualities like persistence, courage to face failure, strong, think positive, and be positive. Those qualities are mandatory as they are known to be the key elements for one’s future success. Her song is related to the reality, in which the lyrics enable listeners to realize the cruelty of the real world, and to take the first step towards success. Lovato has shown that music can have a profound impact on people and can help them get through obstacles in their life. Demi Lovato teaches her listeners about struggles and hardships in society. Her lyrics implant hope, in which, in the future will positively transform a person’s life. Last but not least, Lovato’s music also urges people to be strong in countering their fears and achieve success through persistence.
“Family Portrait” by Pink portrays a social problem that is unfortunately rampant in American society today; divorce. I chose this song because I am an adult child of divorce and this song helped me a lot during my parents' initial separation and subsequent divorce years later. I feel that this song gives a voice to children everywhere who are dealing with parental divorce and expressing thoughts and emotions that many children cannot express to their parents. Nowadays it is not uncommon to know one or even several people whose parents are divorced or whose own marriages have ended in divorce. Divorce has far reaching effects; not only for the couple but among the entire family.
My life has been full of so many events. I’ve lived through many hard times combatting my anxiety and depression, while having family problems, and trouble with many other areas in my life. School was a daily problem, and a problem that couldn’t really be avoided or fixed. I really hope that the rest of my life goes in this upward climb pattern that I am in right now, although I expect to have my ups and downs, but now I at least know that I am prepared for them.
Personally, I absolutely love Taylor Swift. As a fellow singer/songwriter, I am envious of her ability to be so poetically honest because that is what I struggle with most when songwriting. I am always afraid that something I write will end up sounding silly or stupid, which ultimately prevents me from creating something amazing. But fear has surely never stopped Taylor Swift, and I think that’s what makes an artist like her so special. She openly writes about what she’s going through, and she doesn’t care about what other people might think about her. Whenever I listen to one of Swift’s songs, I can’t help but feel like it could have been written specifically for me. It’s almost as if she takes my thoughts and puts them into words, which is quite a valuable talent if you ask me. In fact, for every big milestone in my teenage life, there has been a Taylor Swift song that I could rel...