Musical Selection: Built to Spill "You Were Right", lyrics; make an inference (claim) about the lyrical content of this song and support it, write one analytical statement about a musical part of the song and explain it, and make an evaluative statement about the overall effectiveness of this song and explain it
Inference: Someone told the singer that everything was going to be alright during a hard time, that person was wrong. “You were right when you said we’re still running against the wind,” displays a difficult time because it is difficult to run against the wind. One knows the singer believes who ever told him everything would be alright is wrong because he directly says so. The first two lines are “You were wrong when you said everything’s gonna be alright.”
Analytical statement: The music starts off with fast and angry sounding, and the singer aggressively says that “You were wrong when you said everything's gonna be alright.” Then the instrumentation and vocals grow calmer as the singer says what someone said was right about.
Evaluative statement: “You were right” is a good song. I like the changes of aggressive and calm tones in the song. The song was also effective in expressing anger.
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