music feelings!

Joy
Oklahoma-Billy Gilman

Oklahoma is great song to listen to for hope or if you just want tears of joy. In the song Billy Gilman talks about a boy who was in foster care his whole life and after he finally found a home he is being taken out of it. Finally he found out that his real dad is where their taking him to Oklahoma. This song expresses joy in a different way. It starts out as you thinking this song is going to talk about a boy going through different homes but, to find out he is going to meet his dad. At the end when the father and son meet up it is a very joyful feeling. The song makes people want to tear up with joy. The song talks about feeling like you have something again!

Anger
Blown Away-Carrie Underwood

In Blown Away the lyrics express a feeling of hatred and anger. The song starts out talking about a storm and how the lightening makes cracks in the skies. Then it goes to talk about a young girls experience growing up without a mother and an abusive father. It then goes to talk about the anger. The songs says "there's not enough rain in Oklahoma to wash the sins away out of that house" the lyrics are basically saying there is no way to get rid of the memories in the house but, she wishes a storm would take it away. The last part of the song that really intrigued me was the part where it is saying that when the storm sirens start going off she locks her self in the basement and leaves her dad on the couch passed out. People say that she is getting shelter then the most angry part of the song is when she says she is getting revenge. This song expresses anger through a storm and the sounds of thunder!

Sadness

Daddy's Little Girl-Frankie J

Daddy's Little Girl is a song about fathers leaving and not having them around. To me this is a sad song because I didn't grow up with my real dad, but with my step dad. So I know what it is like to have a father leave. The song shows when a father is dying and all the daughter can do is ask the The Lord for help. It also shows a part with a father leaving for war and I feel sympathetic for the daughters who have to lose ones father to war, even their mothers. This song is very mournful in the fact that it talks about leaving and asking the Lord to help.

Family

Like my Mother Does-Lauren Alaina



The most important person in my life is my mother. She raised me half my life on her own. I am who I am today because of my mother. The song talks about the connection between a mother and daughter. Me and my mom look like each other as I grow older. We share so much she is one of my best friends. I don't depend on my mother to spoil me with money and items. I love that she spoils me with love. The song describes the support my mom has always gave me with wanting to sing. Like My Mother Does explains that a mother raises a daughter with values to smile through everything and don't judge a person!

Sexuality

Keep Ya Head Up -Tupac Shakur



Tupac is great artist who had great ideas about the world and women. Keep Ya Head Up basically goes into detail about why you need to have respect for your women. He starts listing reasons why a man should respect her. The main reason is a women gave birth to you and brought you into this world so respect her. He also explains to a women even when a man is taunting a girl on the side of the road to hitting your wife, the ladies need to keep their head up no matter what life and men bring you!

These are some of the songs that express feelings to me. A lot of them have symbolic meanings to me that will stay with me forever. Each person has a different way of feelings in every song.

Thanks,

Courtney!