Look at the lyrics to this song. What are they about? How do you know (what is your proof from the song)? What musical elements (volume, tempo, instrumentation) helps to push your lyrical interpretation of the song? Find me something in the song that relates to propaganda, persuasion, deception, rhetoric, or argument and explain it.
This song is about believing in yourself and being able to rebel against something higher, even if you are beat down. The song says, “Stop wasting your time, there’s nothing coming.” To me this means you need to stop trying to be what you aren’t, believe in who you are and work with that. Also, I know the song is about rebelling but not winning because in the beginning of the song the character is rebelling against working for the Clampdown. But, when the end of the song comes the character fell and is now working for the Clampdown.
The intense and rough sounding instrumentation and vocals creates a sense of something falling. Originally, it sounds like the Clampdown is falling. In the end, however, it is the character that has fallen.
“We will teach our twisted speech” shows that someone (we) is persuading someone else with a twisted speech. The “we” is using rhetoric to persuade someone something that may or may not be entirely true.
No comments:
Post a Comment