Cardinal (a music video) by The Wonder Years Cardinal by the wonder years written for the pop punk band's fifth album 'no closer to heaven'. In this powerful 3 minute video directed by Kevin Slack it shows the struggle of being too late to save someone and giving a warning to those to never wait till its too late. The video starts off with an unfocused exterior shot of the woods, then as it begins to focus we see a man (soupy the lead singer) carrying an unconscious Mike Kennedy (drummer), as Soupy begins to run towards the camera and as the video continues we see Soupy struggle to try to save his friend. The video is shot in a single sequence and gives the video a raw look and is simplistic enough to get the point across in a natural way. The video is a true visual reputation of the song showing Soupy struggle and guilt of Soupy trying to save his friend through facial expression and through the lyrics matching the tone of the video like “ staring at a hole in your chest that's been dug there for decades, american broken promises, caught between the lies you've been fed and a war with your bloodstream, I should have been there when you needed a friend,I was off on my own again, selfish and stupid” or "...I know I failed you... I want those …show more content…
years back, So if you call me back or let me in I swear I'll never let you down again, I know the devil you've been fighting with I swear I'll never let you down again, were no saviors if we can't save our brothers, So if you call me back or let me in I swear I'll never let you down again, I know the devil you've been fighting with I swear I'll never let you down again..." The song is heartbreaking, with Soupy singing/writting about not being able to save his friend who sadly died of a drug overdose. Though he actually hit a cardinal (by accindent), the cardinal was a representaion of his friend and how he felt like he wasn't there enough for his friend and if he were, his friend would still be there. This is a topic that is being used in their first two singles for their albums. I think the video shows that his friend is already gone, but he still trying, even though it's too late. So, as the video progresses you see how hard it is to let someone who is already gone, go and that Soupy will always carry his friend with him and that guilt will never go away. The best feature of the video is Soupy's face.
He is able to express the entire emotion needed to make song understoodable and because of this he is able to keep the audience interested, so much so that you find yourself at times tearing up because how expressive Soupy is. My least favorite feature is that there is no backstory, but I understood it was done to help the viewer get more involved with the song and video. To be honest, I wouldn't make any improvements, I think the video is perfect the way it is, it's raw and emotional just like the song. And even though there is no backstory, it, you can still imagine it. The video will leave you teary eyed and hoping you never have to go through what the wonder years had
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In the memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion narrates her personal struggle of coping the realization of John being dead and will never resurrect to reunite with Joan. Joan exerts many sorrowful expressions as medical information and the vortex effects instill a sense of anticipation that John will soon come back. Consequently, Didion’s hopefulness opaques her true identity as she still associates herself as a married woman, when in reality, she needs to move on from John to reestablish her extroverted personality to the world once again. On the contrary, Didion comes to a consensus that John’s death was inevitable, Joan starts to ponder about her future with the exclusion of John. With Joan grieving
This part of the video persuades the audience to trust that the singer knows what it is like to be under stress from
Cleon Skousen’s The 5000 Year Leap described the twenty-eight fundamental principles which established the Constitution. It argued that application of these principles is absolutely necessary for successful function and advancement of the American government and people; it emphasized the importance of morality and virtue in a society of free people. An analysis of The 5000 Year Leap ultimately disproved Skousen’s claim that the fundamental principles which established the Constitution are responsible for the “five thousand-year leap”.
The relevance of the song was portraying that using drugs and alcohol will help you escape life situations. Regardless of how hard or tough it is. All you need to do is to get drunk or get high, than your problems will flush away. But the video don’t explain the reality of the outcome of how drugs and alcohol will or could affect your lifestyle and how it could lead you to lose your job, family and life. All it shows is the fun side of being intoxicated. Which, it raises a big flag on kids or teens that do have access to the media like the
... song entitled “Formation”. The filming took place in Los Angeles, but features references to Hurricane Katrina, with Beyoncé on top of a police car in a flooded street and later cuts to a man holding a newspaper with Martin Luther King Jr.’s face on it with the title “The Truth”. Later a young hooded boy dances in front of a line of police officers with their hands up before the video cuts to a graffitied wall with the words “stop shooting us “ tagged on it, at the end of the video the police car sunk with her on top. Not only did this song, bring awareness to the 10th anniversary of hurricane Katrina it also brought awareness to police brutality, racism, and the “black lives matter movement”. I stand with Lil Wayne, Beyoncé, the people of New Orleans and the countless others who are pushing for a change in the way minorities and the lower class citizen are treated.
While it may be easier to persuade yourself that Boo’s published stories are works of fiction, her writings of the slums that surround the luxury hotels of Mumbai’s airport are very, very real. Katherine Boo’s book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” does not attempt to solve problems or be an expert on social policy; instead, Boo provides the reader with an objective window into the battles between extremities of wealth and poverty. “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” then, exposes the paucity and corruption prevalent within India.
As someone whose job it is to write about music, their analysis and experience should be taken into account among other things. He brings this up in the article to point to the fact that he had to look back on other points like this in history to see how a song like this could perform so well and consistently. Surprisingly, for someone who delves into number one hits regularly, there was not a time that paralleled Gambino’s situation. This strengthens his argument for the “unprecedented” territory. He goes on to interpret the data and finds even more extraordinary feats, including the fact that the video is one of the main reasons for its number one spot. However, while the video got it to number one, it is streams without the video that are keeping it there, Molanphy notes. Along with the data, he also looks into the song and picks apart parts which he feels resonates with listeners. These include the triple entendres and the melodies featured (but uncredited) artists, such as Young Thug, provide. By addressing these topics, the author's credibility increases and allows more latitude to be given when making his
Many people may view something differently than others, this is usually and interpretation. An interpretation is an action of explaining the meaning of something or it can be an explanation of a way to explain something. We have all made interpretations about something and we do it often. Eric Forner and Howard Zinn had different interpretations of the gilded age, which was a time period where the United States population and economy quickly grew with a lot of corruption. Their ways of explaining this era was different from one another.
Expansive growth was the moniker which expressly defined the Gilded Age. Industry in all sectors, witnessed massive growth leading to the creation of an American economy. Due to the rapidly changing nature of industrialization important men of both the public and private sectors attempted to institute their own controls over it. However this transforming landscape integrated both economic and political changes, but also cultural and social interactions. In turn, those who controlled the flow of business would also steadily impact the American social scene by extension. Alan Trachtenberg, professor of American studies at Yale and author of The Incorporation of America, argues that the system of incorporation unhinged the idea of national identity that all American’s had previously shared. As a result incorporation became the catalyst for the great debate about what it meant to actually be American, and who was capable of labeling themselves as such. Throughout his work Trachtenberg consistently tackles the ideas of cultural identity and how those ideas struggled against one another to be the supreme definition of Americanism. This work not only brings to life the issue of identity but it attempts to synthesize various scholarly works into a cohesive work on the Gilded Age and demonstrates that concepts developed during the incorporation of the time period have formed the basis for the American cultural, economic, and political superstructure. The Incorporation of America sets a high standard for itself one in which it doesn’t necessarily meet; however the work is still expansive and masterful at describing the arguments of the Gilded Age.
The article I chose for this assignment included two passages from the book, The Gift of Years, by Joan D. Chittister (1936). Chittister wrote this book when she was 81 years old and it is a particularly poignant read because the book provides a realistic and an optimistic view about how we grow old.
Every performance was presented with charm. The flashing, changing colors seem to go along with the performances. The director was humorous. The performers outfits were on point too. I liked the color coding of the vocalists, Jeremy, Jordan, and Rowan. Also, Julie wore a pretty suede dress and had a great voice. It was nice to see her come out for the 2nd time to sing. When Spencer kept playing his saxophone in some of the performances, it was just amazing. Some of my favorite performances were Sittin on the Dock of the Bay, Ain’t too Proud to Beg, In a Sentimental Mood, and more. It really made me feel like I was in New Orleans all over again. I absolutely love Otis Redding and The Temptations music, so I wasn’t new to these songs they played. I was sitting in the back (R-125) where I felt comfortable to bob my head to the music. If I ever come back to see another concert, I will make sure to get a seat in the back again. I adore Jordan that did sung the Temptations song. I thought it was exciting to see his enthusiasm while on stage keeping us engaged, but everyone did great in their own way. The song by Duke Ellington made me feel melancholy, the piece was soft. I just couldn’t believe how well everyone contributed and gave an outstanding
In the poem “What Are Years?” , Moore clearly expresses her perception of life. Moore states that no one can truly understand the nature of their guilt or innocence. Everyone is “naked” to the dangers of existence.
When watching this I caught on to the meaning of the storyline, and how yeah everything may be all happy and nice because everyone got what they wanted in the end, but that only fixed their problems, not the world, not the reality of what was really happening behind all the glitz and glam that was occurring in their own world. Throughout the song the scene shows American soldiers getting shipped off to war and everyone is so happy and proud that America is in the war and going to win, it then changes to the soldiers marching in the rain trying to stay strong and hold on for dear life as they get battled down. Eventually those who have made it out through the war alive, they become veterans with medals that don’t do much justice to recognize the sacrifice they have made and then turn into forgotten men of the war. I found connections with the economy and war which showed how the president failed his country even with bringing in ideas such as The New Deal that clearly did not work out according to plan. Poverty was a common thing during the depression, and reflecting back to the girls in the scene where they are in their conjoined beds due to lack of furniture and stealing milk from neighbors and soldiers
The 1936 film My Man Godfrey begins with two rich sisters picking up a “hobo” at a dump to win a preposterous scavenger hunt and ends with that same man living happily ever after in a mall that he created out of that same dump.This impressive man named Godfrey explains that his reasoning for first going to the scavenger hunt was “to see how a bunch of empty headed nitwits conducted themselves.” Godfrey’s insult at the crowd aligns with Christopher Beach’s reasoning in his work,“Working Ladies And Forgotten Men” that the main movie going population are drawn in and comforted by My Man Godfrey’s negative portrayal of the extremely wealthy. Beach states, “Given the generally hostile sentiment toward the wealthy few expressed by both the working
I noticed he constantly switched from the synthesizer to the keyboard, and this was to change the tune and make it sound layered as I mentioned before. I also noticed that at times he played the keyboard slowly and other times he would play extremely fast. So rapidly that I even questioned how a man can first not only move his arms so fast but also play so beautifully at such high speeds. A tune he played even sounded like a swish-swashing sound, and I was amazed by how a synthesizer and keyboard can possibly make such sounds. I also noticed that for this song that both Lionel Loueke and Dave Holland played the guitar, and I think this was to match the fusion electric instrument style. Overall, the entire band did a great opening for their performance; everyone looked like they were doing their own thing and were very content.