Chelsea Mitchell: February 2011

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Reflection on Posts

As the list of assignments progresses it gets continuously harder to find songs that fit under the categories. The Liberation Songs that I found were most common in Reggae. Liberation to me means freedom and that you are reaching your highest potential. I found these songs on my Itunes and I find them to be very inspirational. Sugarland "Stand Up" is a really emotion filled songs as she wants everyone to be their own person and do as they wish.

The Success Songs were the hardest to find for me. Rather then post songs about money, job status, wives, etc I wanted to find songs that were my definition of success. I think that success is something that isn't a physical attribute but more of an emotional high of YES, I have reached my goal. These songs are meaningful to me and contain a real meaning of success.

America today focuses to heavily on what the press and media wants. I think that singers should pursue what is truly meaningful to them and focus less on artificial things and more on what life is really about.

Liberation Songs

1. Liberation Song Mark Wonder, Reggae 2002.
2. Free Zac Brown Band, Country 2010.
3. Learn to Fly Foo Fighters, Alternative 1999.
4. Stand Up Sugarland, Country 2010.
5. Liberation Morgan Heritage, Alternative/Reggae 2004.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Success Songs

1.Success by Duran Duran 1993 Pop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A-ONUxz7B8

2.Success and Failures by Saccharine Trust Indie Rock 1981. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InI9VaVI5PI

3.Sweet Needles of Success by Alphaville 2005 Alternative. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnp9YPaZsiU

4.Overnight Sensation by Tina Turner Pop 1986. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70x17m6oO-o

5.East West by Morrissey Indie Rock 1989. http://www.videolog.tv/video.php?id=615485

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Reflection on Posts

The aim that I thought was more prevalent was the pleasure songs. It was a lot easier to find songs about pleasure as the majority of any songs are about it. People want to listen to songs that contain pleasure, as they can relate to it better than community service. The aim that was a lot harder to find was community service, which took a long time to find. This is a topic that many people can relate to, but few songs are wrote about it. I was most surprised that every song I listen to contains some type of pleasure it in. From drugs to love, to romance every songs does have pleasure. The Hinduism view of pleasure it that people will eventually grow up of their desire for pleasure, but in the songs it is not mentioned. In community service, Hindi belief is that through doing community service, your next life will be better than your last. However, the community songs I found were strictly about helping others and your duty to serve others.