Every Single Night

Song: Every Single Night
Artist: Fiona Apple

Meet the artist

This is not going to be one of my usual song analyzations I just want to review this song. So in the future, I will periodically review rising artists that I think are awesome.

The song starts out in a lullaby state, but the lyrics show meaning and emotion. Fiona's strong voice instantly kicks in during the chorus, sounding similar to Florence and the Machine.

Yet another picture of the artist

The build up of this song is incredible, each verse unique with a tune slightly different than the other. This is what I like about Alternative and Singer/Songwriter music, it's fresh and original. No auto tune or bass required here, Fiona's got that one covered.

The lyrics are powerful, like "that's where the pain comes in, like a second skeleton". The meaning behind these lyrics completely unbeknown to me, but the words themselves caught my attention.

I hope you enjoy this song as much as I do.

Click here for the music video

-Ally

Bangarang

Song: Bangarang
Artist: Skrillex

Meet Skrillex

Ok, yes this is a dub song, but if you really want to dig deep here, and I know its a bit of a stretch, but there might be some meaning here.

All bass drops and heavy modulated bass lines aside, there ARE lyrics in there if you are willing to accept it.

Lines like "take me under" and "they say I lost my marbles" can suggest a feeling, acute enough and somewhat gangster. But its meaning between those strong bass lines and snares.

This song is a parallel to "Peter Pan"

Album Cover

Skrillex repeatedly sends shout outs to his lost boys so he apparently is Peter Pan. Also There is the well known last boy that has "lost his marbles" as seen in the movie Hook.

Skrillex also mentions the "Boss boys". Suggesting deteriorating dreams. When children start to become adults and face reality. And for some it is the evolution from a "lost boy" to a "boss boy".

Be warned, this music video may be epic

The change in culture these days is also shown. From the innocence of the children in the 80s and 90s watching these animated films and believing them to be true. The purity that these children contained is very much contrasting with the last verse of this song:
"They say I lost my marbles
But I got these beats coming out the back of my toy car
Yo, im eating fun dip right now, not giving a fuck"

This final demonstrated the mentality of children in the world today. They no longer have strong morals and naiveté of past generations. This may have to do with an objective of trying to be a "boss boy" and becoming "rowdy" as Skrillex would put it.

Bangarang music video

Build God, Then We'll Talk

Song: Build God, Then We'll Talk
Singer: Panic! At the Disco

Meet the Band

I know what some of you may be thinking. "An emo song?" or "What is this shit?!" But really, if you listen, you can hear it.

This songs tells the story of people who visit an old, deteriorating motel "on the corner of 4th and Fremont street". But it also tells about the collapsing human condition. Not only is the motel caving in upon itself, but it those who enter are as well (emotionally that is).

Specifically, "tenants range from: a lawyer and a virgin" the lawyer is married and had a proposition for this virgin who is "getting a job at the firm come monday". There is implication, however, that they were not there to discuss her job, it was not "strictly business" and the wife of the lawyer stays with the "cheating attorney".

Album Cover, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

Lyrics and Audio for the songThis shows that people just want certain thing, different for everyone. The virgin, in a money lock, needs the job and is desperate for any form of financial aid. The attorney probably has a history of debauchery and a marriage that is not exactly entertaining to him.

The other verse shows the attorney leaving the girl in the motel. She fixes herself and a policeman barges into the room and searches in her "purse", believing that she is a prostitute. However, because she was paid with a job, not money the policeman cannot charge her. But she finds that there is "a purse of a different kind", referring to a baby that had been conceived that night.

The chorus, saying "a wonderful caricature of intimacy" blatantly states, in a sarcastic way, that people are no longer cherishing the true meaning of intimacy, flitting it away for material and earthly things like money, greed and unfaithfulness.

The last verse of the song says,
"Raindrops on roses and the girls in white dresses
And sleeping with roaches and they taking best guesses
At the shade of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of my least favorite things."

A scene from the music video

The first line, shows all that is good, natural beauty. Rain trickling onto the petals of roses, and girls getting ready to be married; two things that are both natural and pure. However the second line shows two habitual things that shed darkness upon us. Roaches, a somewhat gloomy image depicted, and people taking best guess, being unsure of themselves and not knowing what will be next. The third line is even darker, people no longer faithful to one another, changing the mood in bed, "staining" the sheets with new meaning. The last line, shows the distaste of the whole situation. Wanting people to be faithful like the good old days, without unplanned pregnancy and "stained sheets"

-Ally

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Hello World!

Hey interweb! 

This is my first blog and here's the low down on whats going to happen here.

I will be posting on recent musical artists that I find and will interpret the lyrics to songs. Some well known and some that are not popular at all.

I seek to find meaning behind what we listen to everyday and how it came to be. The viral music video Gangnam Style? Gangnam is a wealthy province in Korea, known for prepiness and being on the point of fashion.

The music that I review is on the most part stuff I listen to, ranging from alternative to rock and dub step. There is no stone that will be left unturned here. Yes, dubstep may have a meaning, and if it does, I will find it. Even if it has to do with "all my lost boys" (Bangarang by Skrillex).

If you want you can request that I review, interpret or post lyrics for any song feel free to ask! I will be setting up an email soon so that you can message me whenever you'd like. I may not be a music guru but I sure as hell will try.

-Ally