| Beyoncé – Schoolin' Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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A beautiful song that resonates with the majority of American women. It's fun to listen to and a blast really. The only thing I find silly is that, it relates Beyonce to most average women. They are indeed similar, but one cannot ignore that Beyonce rakes in millions of dollars who is married to a man who also rakes in millions of dollars each year. They are incredibly successful and as much as they try, they are now social aliens in many cases despite their similar upbringings and relatively untainted ideals. Otherwise, it emphasizes that mid-life is not the end of one's life. Time flies past us and life does not always go according to plan. We must continue to act and shape our destiny rather than letting it freely fly past us. The cliche derived from Voltaire's Candide would be that we must "cultivate our own garden." In that sense, if we bothered with it in the first place, do not let all the plants die now. Live on and be happy. |
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| Beyoncé – Run the World (Girls) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The video is full of interesting imagery that makes it fun to watch. I would love to point out all of that I can think of but, it's a lot of work to logically interpret all the frames of a video in an interesting manner. The initial seconds when Beyonce is riding the horse... As the horse rears itself, the scene makes a transition as the horse is in the air. This pose is an emphasis of power and dominance, in my opinion, made immortal in a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte as he rests on a horse in a similar manner. The lingerie with capes also implies that women are super heroes but at the same time are sexual. Women are not whores but rather, humans that must perform superhuman tasks every day while remaining "dominant" sexually and utilize it to their advantage. Biologically, in most cases when one is not dealing with a rapist or misogynist, women control their relationships and have humanity's chances of survival in a vice. They are half the genes for a child and they birth the damn thing. If all women suddenly stopped having children, humanity would be extinct in a century. Men may have imposed the image of dominance but the idea of the "woman behind the man" is everpresent. Finally, although I missed a lot and forgot a lot of what I want to say... Women demonstrate their control in purposely acting submissive or giving into the demands of men. They constantly manipulate the male gender but carefully utilize all that they have to do so. This form of sacrifice is experienced by almost every strong woman and is exemplified in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eye's Were Watching God" as Janie willingly accepts a beating from Teacake with no fuss to empower him rather than fighting back as most women would. This sacrifice is shown at the end in the video. Although the men are fearful of the power of women, the women have a sudden change of face. As Teddy said, speak softly but carry a large stick. Further emphasizing the idea of a superhero, women live lives as normal people until they must break out the capes and demonstrate their superhuman powers. I am a man and have a passion for all things beautiful and women are especially fierce and enthralling. I do not care much for the supposed Illuminati imagery since it's silly stuff, I am actually more curious about the people who continually proliferate those ideas on the internet. c: Shrug. I liked the song and video. |
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| Lady GaGa – The Edge of Glory Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Apparently this about the last breaths before dying and embracing God. That sounds very nice but. I want this to be a sexual and intimate song. I want this song to be about the risk one takes in life, to pursue pleasure and love and risk tragic heartbreak or even death. Although I expected lover's suicide in the video, Edge of Glory, the loneliness of Gaga on screen, not including Saxman, emphasized this intimate relationship. In this case, it is made with the viewer and Gaga. Just the two of us, on the edge. I would also like to say the intimacy and romance is exemplified in the provocative set of clothes she wears, the dancing, and the fire escape window. The window, for me, is a cliche symbol of childish love, like when a young boy looks at a girl from the street and sees her and she shoots a wink back or something silly like that. However, with God subbed in as the viewer, it makes just as much sense and if the extreme solitude is merely a metaphor for the isolation of death. And for that matter, the isolation of death reminds me of a poem by Emily Dickinson in which the narrator describes a fly as she breaths her last breath. The poem itself is playful yet unnerving in it's description of the malicious little bugger. The irony is that, the narrator is completely disconnected from those who are physically near her, barely even acknowledging them. All there is the eerie fly, the crummiest symbol of death and decay. Shrug. I liked the song and the video. |
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| Lady GaGa – Bloody Mary Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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In regards to your comment 100skies, I only want to touch on your closing bit. I do not believe that because artists did not "experience what [Mary] went through," that they are not allowed to craft art. Rather, it is more along the lines of that, no matter how many times a tragic piece of history is portrayed or how beautifully it is portrayed-- it is still a tragic piece of history. Michelangelo could not change history by portraying Mary in a different manner. What's done is done and it stays that way in most cases. Ultimately, for Bloody Mary, I prefer to disregard the religious references and allusions to Mary Tudor. I want to place emphasis on the fact that marry will not "crucify the things [Jesus does]." In this sense, she is saying she will not scold or judge him. By that token, it reinforces the title of the album, Born This Way, in which she will not judge him for it is in his nature and she fell in love with that and will continue to regardless. However, when returning to religion, this form of undying love reminds me of Jesus in his relentless passion for all of humanity and his extreme lack of enmity towards others. She coincides with his beliefs and life style in the sense that she will not hate and despise others for killing Jesus. She follows in his footsteps and lets her own melancholic Kingdom of Heaven build up within the "void" Jesus has left in her heart. Here, she demonstrates her utmost belief in Jesus, her "religion." Rather extreme, but it works to a mediocre extent. |
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| Lady GaGa – The Queen Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Perhaps but. All of her albums have overarching themes and what not. The Fame emphasized flamboyance and other raunchy things that accompany riches and fame. The Fame Monster emphasized the flaws in addition to Gaga's certain phobias and fears. Born This Way emphasizes the individual[especially those who are discriminated against for "racial," sexual, philosophical, or religious reasons.] in the face of society's oppressive idea of being normal yet promoting uniqueness. To empower oneself and accept one another's differences to grow stronger and achieve or at least pursue happiness. Shrug. I do not expect Gaga to be stupid enough to risk killing her self. The noble end of a short life for a good cause is the pinnacle of immaturity. |
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| Lady GaGa – The Queen Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I cannot fathom why you got a -1 but... It is a little extreme to assume that drag queens and gay men are all that the song is about empowering, but I definitely got wisps of that in listening to the song. However, when I read the lyrics, they invoke a sense of stalwart perseverance in the face of adversity. To overcome any challenge regardless of the odds and what not. I could see this as empowering any person, people who feel oppressed as a result of being trapped in the closet or whatever, or simply emphasizing Gaga's "role" as the leader or queen of gay/bi/transgender movements and rights. |
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| Florence + the Machine – What the Water Gave Me Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Learning about Virginia Woolf was rather interesting and the painting that inspired the title was pretty cool. The reference to witches is rather interesting but for saying, "that's how it was back then." Yeah, back in the 17th century perhaps, during the Salem Witch Trials. Perhaps centuries before in rural Europe. These superstitions quickly faded away as the industrial revolution clouded the skies with black smog and littered the streets with poverty stricken families(forced out of rural lifestyles by land owners and the agricultural revolution) and trash. Again, interesting, but I find it to be irrelevant as Woolf lived during the turn of the century and died during WWII. Additionally, the overflow of water, in my honest opinion, is simply referring to the water displaced by the person drowning with pockets full of stones. Volume is the measure of how much an object displaces when placed into a fluid object, be it a liquid or gas. I would prefer to not repeat anything that has been said thus far but I would view this as the ever ironic death by water. To die by that which has kept us alive for so long. I also find that drowning oneself with a pocket full of stones to be tragic yet eerily romantic, reminiscent of a lover's suicide. Ignoring the fact of death, I draw that emphasis of the fact that life is overwhelming like aspects of nature. Everything seems to cause stress and leads us into crippling depression and uncomfortable insanity. Her, the character embraces water, a liquid commonly associated with calmness and destructiveness. In the sense of the former, she engulfs herself in the soothing and restorative powers of water and becomes one with nature. She lets the water take her; take her to the dark and frightening path of death. A path with no known end or destination, a path where angels fear to tread. |
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