song analysis from six songs

Don't Worry Be Happy- Bobby McFerrin

The song "Don't Worry Be Happy" was released by Bobby McFerrin in 1988. This song was on the Billboard Hot 100 as the first a cappella song to reach number one for two weeks. "Don't Worry Be Happy" won Grammy Awards for "Song of the Year," "Record of the Year," and "Best Male Pop Vocal Performance." The song was ranked number 31 on the VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80's. The saying "Don't Worry Be Happy" was taken from Meher Baba, who is an Indian spiritual master. The "instruments" in this song are not real instruments; the instruments are overdubbed voice parts and other sounds made by McFerrin.
"Don't Worry Be Happy" has a lot of literary terms throughout the song. The first term I noticed was a hyperbole. The line "when you worry you make it double" is an exaggeration. I think that this is an exaggeration because I don't agree that worrying about something will make the situation twice as bad. There is a lot of examples of imagery in this song. "Somebody came and took your bed" is a great example of imagery because you can imagine someone coming in and evicting your house and taking everything you own. This song includes a little bit of humor. An example of humor in this song is when he says, "Here I give you my phone number, when you worry call me, I make you happy." I think this is funny because of his tone when he says it. It is also funny to me because the thought of a stranger giving their number to me to call them when I am sad is humorous. The mood in this song is very happy, which relates back to why the song is called, "Don't Worry Be Happy."

90's song analysis

"Gettin Jiggy Wit It" was a song written by Will Smith, co-written by Nas, that was on his album titled "Big Willie Style" released in 1998. The song was on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks ranked 68th greatest song from the 90's by VH1. Also, this song won a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance. The song was racially looked down upon because the word "jiggy" is another term for a "jigaboo" which is a derogatory name from black people. This made the literal meaning of the title of the song "getting African-American with it."

This song has a good literary rating. The course is filled with euphony when it says, "na na na na nana" and there is another example at the beginning of the song saying "whoo." There is an example of alliteration in the song where it states, "bicka bow bow bump bump." This is alliteration because they are words that are sounds. The line "you gotta Prada bag with alotta stuff in it" that displays imagery. "Givin' up jiggy make it feel like foreplay" is an example of a simile because it is comparing two things with the word like.

song with euphony

Katelyn Tarver- Undeniable

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na (oh hoh)
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah – it's so

This song is a euphony because of the acoustic sweet sounds that are produced by the lyrics.

found poems

Californication- Red Hot Chili Peppers

Getting high on information
Trying to steal creation
Break the spell of control of population
Hollywood dreams, destruction
Celebrity star, singing songs
Craving vacation
Raised civilization
Inside tidal waves
These kind of little girls
Marry me girl
Final occasion of the world



Champagne Supernova- Oasis

Believe dreams never die
Cannonball faster
Walking in the sky
Caught me spinning around
People slowly change lives
Special eye, tear away
Find me living beneath the landslide
Where summer someday



Purpose- 311

All make believe
Never slack
Showing no more love, give up
Still got a thing, pure things
Something's purpose
You make me quiver, shiver
Her hands surface
See me coming again
Slow stream, own course

worst song

Cotton Eye Joe- Rednex

Personally, I think that the Cotton Eye Joe is the worst song ever. The song is very short and somewhat repetitive. The words "If it hadn't been" are repeated a lot in this song, which is an unnecessary repetition. In this song, there are only three verses. At first, I felt that this song is kind of akward because I didn't understand the meaning of this song. I saw that someone wrote it is about heroine. I somewhat agree that it is about a drug. I think it is about coke because in the lyrics it says, "He came to town like a midwinter storm." Coke is white which is why I think that this song is about coke. I think that this is an inappropriate song because this song is usually played at children functions. Even though this song started out playing at country western events, it is played at many venues throughout United States. This song is inappropriate to play at children venues because of the meaning of the song. This song is hard to comprehend. The speech is slurred and not clear. I don't understand how this song reached number one in the United Kingdom because it is annoying and the most awful song ever.

2 songs about war

Eminem- Mosh

In this song it is clearly apparent that Eminem is anti-Bush. He mentions Bush's name multiple times throughout this song. There are many other references to Bush. In this video, the man comes home to his wife being re-assigned to Iraq. I think Eminem thinks that there are way too many people are being sent to Iraq. I agree with him; i think that they are basically sending people to their death. After he reads it he says F Bush. Then the mother receives a letter of eviction and looks over at her children and sees them watching Bush on the television talking about tax cuts. These are other examples of Eminem's view of the war and Bush.

DMB- The Last Stop
This song is not about any war particularly; the main focus of this song is war, peace and religion. DMB seems to have a very strong feeling about war and that they think it is pointless and leads to nothing good. The line "If hate's the gate to peace This is the last stop" means that war is not the way to achieve peace. Peace is achieved by not fighting and being peaceful and happy with everyone. The lines "Gracious even God Bloodied the cross Your sins are washed enough" are talking about how God sacrificed himself for all of us and we are still committing sins by fighting when we should be living in a peaceful world. This song is very sarcastic. When he says, "you're righteous" he is refering to how all people are full of hate and hate eachother and are very cocky of their power, which is why I think people feel war is need, to show off their power and strength.

3 songs with social relevance

Bob Marley: War
This song is obviously about war, but it also speaks a lot about discrimination of all kinds such as race and class. There is a line that states, "Until the colour of a man's skin Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes" which I think is a very powerful statement. I think that it is the most powerful line in this song because it is the truth but some people are too ignorant to realize that color of the skin does not matter. Bob is saying that one of the reasons war is created is because of discrimination of rights to people of a certain race. Another reason that war is created is because of "lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality" says Bob. I think that this is a very powerful song that brings out the ugly truth in this world. A lot of people think that racism does not exist anymore, but in some places it still goes on and still continues to be a very serious issue. There are a countless amounts of reasons to why war is started. I don't think that the world will ever live in complete serenity.

Sublime: Date Rape
This song describes how a guy can quickly pursue a girl into having sex with him. I feel that date rape in becoming more and more serious. I think that teenage girls this century are more naive which is the reason why date rape is so easy. Little girls think that having sex with an older man would make them seem cool or feel better about themselves. The rapist in the song is trying to impress the girl by saying he has a brand new car. When she said she had to think about it, he asked if he could buy her a drink. His plan is to get her drunk so she is more open to any suggestion. He asked her if they could have a little fun and she said no let's go home. Obviously, the rapist only wanted it his way and both of them knew that he was going to get whatever he wanted because the girl was drunk and weak. At the end of the song the girl brings the rapist to court and he is sent to jail. Karma comes around and he is now getting raped in jail. No one feels sympathy for rapists being raped because that is what they deserve.

Bob Marley: Redemption Song
This song is about slavery and taking any situation and making it a positive learning experience. This song represents what Bob Marley stood for and believed in his songs. Bob strongly believed in a black man's rights, especially the right of freedom. In the first verse the man is taken by the pirates and sold to merchants. He does not let this defeat him. He takes it as a good experience that made him stronger. This relates to slavery because any situation you are in, like being a slave, it should be looked at as something that can make you stronger, not weaker. A slave is discriminated so they immediately feel like they're on a lower level then the rest. The first emotion you feel would be defeat, but like it says in the second verse, "none but ourselves can free our minds." Bob is saying that only you can bring yourself peace of the mind and feel stronger after each situation in life. Many blacks are suffering from mental abuse still to this day. I don't think slavery will ever end due to the ignorance of the millions of people. Even if only one person is discriminatory, someone else is bound to follow.