The first part of the song is in the form of a dialogue, with Nanna and Ragnar taking turns singing the lyrics. ... The lyrics describe a woman who feels alone and a man who reassures her. ... Ironically, although the lyrics are concerned with a sad story, the music has a happy sound. ... There are two voices in the song's lyrics rather than just one. ... However, an analysis of the lyrics reveals that the song is about deep meanings concerning a universal human experience....

• Word Count: 823
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Also, the lyrics can be what most feminist would see as degrading, for example: "Ego so big, you must admit I got every reason to feel like I'm that bitch", I believe that this is saying that the stronger the man you have the more woman it makes you. ... It also gives the female a more submissive role by saying that a woman was created for the man when Beyoncé expresses these lyrics, "Some women were made but me, myself I like to think that I was created for a special purpose, you know, what's more special than you?...

• Word Count: 870
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At one part of the clip, where Bega was singing the lyrics "Take one step left and one step right One to the front and one to the side Clap your hands once and clap your hands twice" There was a female, looking at him, and responding accordingly to the lyrics. ...

• Word Count: 910
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Male rappers, through their lyrics put an emphasis on money and the millions they make, on the cars they drive, and on the houses they own with all the necessities. ... Through television and their own lyrics male rap-recording artists are stereotyped as being the type of people who like their money. ...

• Word Count: 616
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The music was 'loud, rhythmically insistent, built around techniques of arousal and climax, the lyrics are assertive and arrogant...cock rockers' musical skills become synonymous with their sexual skills' (Frith and McRobbie, 1978: 7). ... Walser identified four such strategies that he found articulated in song lyrics, through the use of musical codes and music videos. ... The lyrics synthesise the intimately confessional with the socially relevant (again, producing songs that operate both individually and collectively). ...

• Word Count: 2281
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As a result, females are often the subject and source of provocative and demeaning lyrics. ... Above all the belittling portrayal of women in hip-hop lyrics, female artists are scarcely mentioned when compared to their male counterparts. ...

• Word Count: 1035
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

 Each day, millions of people listen to the radio and are exposed to the social critiques that are apparent in many popular songs. With the recent popularization of feminism, many of the social critiques in modern music discuss inequalities between men and women, in hopes of educating the public....

• Word Count: 2131
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"I am woman, hear me roar/ In numbers too big to ignore and I've been down there on the floor/ No one's ever gonna keep me down again" say the lyrics of the song "I am woman," by the singer Helen Reddy. ...

• Word Count: 590
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Through its lyrics, Rent depicts the characters in their struggle with society while trying to stay true to who they are as a person; this includes their loves, hopes, and dreams. ... Jonathan's score for Rent is an index of different famous styles worked consistently into a solid story and is clearly shown by his sharp sense of representing characters through lyrics. ...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The volume of the music and intensity of the lyrics crescendos as the ad progresses to its most climatic point, emphasizing the message of frenzied love generated by the fragrance that the ad aims to depict. ...

• Word Count: 937
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a male-driven record industry, women have been marginalized since the dawn of the 20th century when music publishing and recording began. Today, the issue of women being inferior to their male counterpart in the music industry is still there. Women are the sex symbols of music. There are so many ...

• Word Count: 645
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

LLCool J, P.Diddy all of WuTang, and Jay"Z sexualities have been questioned even in the face of their hyper heterosexual song lyrics and music videos. ... It would change Hip-Hops preconceptions of the homosexual and challenge the production of homophobic lyrics But if an ordinary African American gay male decided to announce his Sexuality publicly he would risk losing his identity as a man to his peers and be a source if shame to his family. ...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily We become so numb to what we're saying" When we analyze these lyrics we can notice how we misuse this word without even realizing the meaning behind the word and how what may seem silly to us may be spiteful to others. ...

• Word Count: 906
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

When reading the lyrics of the song, John Lennon apparently turns the table around and moves to the other extreme. ... There is no guarantee though and the lyrics do not say if there was a happy ending. ...

• Word Count: 2675
• Approx Pages: 11

The arena is teeming with people; you can feel their sweaty bodies pressed in against you as the rumbling of voices meets your ears. The lights above start to dim, and the rumbling rises to shrill screams and enthusiastic whistles. It is now like a sauna, in pitch-black darkness, and the air is char...

• Word Count: 1609
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

You can examine representations of women in sexualizing and objectified manner in the media including commercials, television programs, movies, music lyrics and videos, magazines, advertising, video games, and Internet sites where women are revealed wearing provocative cloths, and posing in ways that emphasize their body parts and sexual readiness. ...

• Word Count: 1909
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate