Beautiful and Polysemic Song

Lorde-Team

This is a beautiful and polysemic song; and you can notice it when you continue listening to the song. This song shows us a different life reality about the author who is also the singer also it  shows us her personal-and-critical point of view about the popular music, known also as POP, when she says “I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air”. In my opinion the song has three important messages to ruminate about; the first is that anybody can follow its own path to happiness and it may be outside the common road, just like he or she did (this can be inferred from the chorus). It can also be inferred from this song the idea that it’s better to be poor and beautiful (in the inside, as well in the outside) than rich and hollow from the part of the lyrics that says “what this place wants is release”. The second message is that in job and society exist a reality that is not as close as most people, Medias, and celebrities portrayed. Actually, life with all its defects and bad moments is still capable to provide happiness and true friendship, love, and a sense of belonging for those who live within that reality which can be inferred from the part of the song that says “Cities you'll never see onscreen” and also from “But we sure know how to run free”; this last quote could be understood as encouragement to be free from that reality. The third message which the song tries to send us is that the song gives voice at all these people living in the underworld, which it can be inferred as the prostitutes (the receptor) or the poor people "with jewels on the lips”.                                                                      

 We could conclude that the speaker is a poor woman, possibly a prostitute or a member of a mafia gang, and the receptor is the people who passively watch TV in the other side of her job stage. I also believe that she is trying to send us a message stating that no matter what roll of life we look to, we are still in the same shoes, because we are in the same TEAM. My favorite phase of the song is “Why compete for a love you won’t receive?” with this, the singer tells us that everybody can be able to fight their own life battles and she feels very proud about what she is doing with her own life.

Natasha Bedingfield – Unwritten

My first impressions about this song are that this is an encouraging song and it fits to mention that is precisely my specialty which I found more comfortable for writing about my review and insights about the song meaning. This song is about being open minded and living each day to the fullest. It's about being yourself because you are who you as can be inferred from the quote “I'm undefined”. It could be interpreted as “I am unique person” with different personality and character and this is the reason that I am misunderstood. This is perhaps the most important message which is present with the equal power in the song. A message of let it all go and have fun in life may be inferred from the quote “Live your life with arms wide open” because doing that “Today is where your book begins”. The metaphor of the book can be interpreted with the idea of your life starts being written by you when you start thinking independently by yourself. In others words, don't worry about what could happen, the main idea is not to stop trying and “Feel the rain on your skin”, which means to live life intensely because “no one else can feel it for you”. According to the singer all you need to do to achieve this is to “Release your inhibitions” and “Open up the dirty window”. The first quote emphasize the idea that I already mentioned about, which is related to keep an open mind by following the recommendations of “break tradition” and try “outside the lines” with freedom, liberty and keeping an open mind. In conclusion this song which follows a philosophy of life based on personal happiness, which consequently is reflected in our surroundings by having more freedom from the point of view of a common person like us, to other person just like us.

Oasis – Don't Go Away

“Don't Go Away” is definitely a desperate prayer for the health condition of someone when in a verse says “I don't want to be there when you hit the ground”. This means that I do not want your death, I want you to stay here with me, because I am not ready for you move away from me,  I am not ready for your death, is for that reason I beg you to stay alive because I am not prepared to live without you. All these inference are supported when the singer says: “Say that you'll stay, Forever and a day ... In the time of my life”. In my opinion a verse says “yes I need more time just to make things right” is probably because he is sad for not being honest, kind and caring enough person which is in love with the person that he loved the most which in this case could be her mother, song, friend, brother, or perhaps even her girlfriend. The Speaker literally says "And I do not want to be there when you're ...Coming down "; the fear that that can be felt from this phase causes to me to fell inspired by the poem. In my opinion the singer, because of the kind of education she received (metaphor of distant or dry personality), is unable to express his feelings like most people. For this reason he prefers to talk about her feelings with a song before that important person pass away. She writes this song because it is the unique language with she knows how to express her feelings in an open manner; to this it makes reference when a verse says “Damn my education, I can't find the words to say”. In my opinion, this beautiful song tries to remember us the mexican popular saying “nobody knows what he has until it’s lost”. The singer is a normal person with fears which she wants to express in her own way.