Song Critique Essay

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Song Critique
Each song has it’s own unique story to tell through it’s lyrics. In a single song or multiple songs, things like heartbreak, death, romance, or even friendship can be expressed. For example, a song like “No Good in Goodbye” by the Script talks about the heartbreaking end in a relationship through its lyrics. It starts out with a semi upbeat and fast-paced instrumental with a yearning tone to it’s sound. After the introduction, consisting of just the instrumental, the music begins to slow down and the drums come to a halt and you begin to hear the singer sing along with the sound of a piano playing in the background. This song opens up strongly by singing about the losses that happen when a breakup occurs and all the regret and …show more content…

For instance, “Where's the "good" in "goodbye"?/Where's the "nice" in "nice try"?” These few lines from the chorus are repeatedly sung throughout the song. And as the chorus shows up, the song starts to pick up speed for awhile and then briefly slow down and speed up again when it’s sung, all the while mixing up the choice of instruments for the instrumental portion of the song. The lyrics in this song can really make you wonder things like where is the good in goodbye or the nice in nice try. Besides the chorus, lines like “I can't take the ache from heartbreak” or “No matter how it falls apart/There's an "art" in breaking hearts” compel and create the mood of regret, loneliness, and heartache within the audience. In addition, to the word twists, certain words are repeated and emphasized in a way that catches your attention, such as, mistake, art, heartbreak, hearts, hell, or ache. At the end, the song begins to slow down, and ending with lyrics of regret, “If I could turn back time, then I would re-write those lines.” The lyrics in “No Good in Goodbye” can be quite relatable if you’ve experienced a broken heart, and even if you haven’t, you can sort of experience what a broken heart would feel like in a way because of all the emotion written in the lyrics and in the music that

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