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Reflection: The story through the decades

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Reflection: The story through the decades

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I don’t think the story completely changes, so much as it shifts in style to suit the decade. When you look at songs such as “Black Spiderman” which is from the 2010’s and “This Land is Your Land” from the 40’s, they are both stories of unity but they’re told with different tempos, melodies and lyrics; it’s as if they singers are telling the same story from perspectives and in different styles. The range of messages are still fairly similar, it’s just the way that they are being told is becoming increasing diverse.

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Black Spiderman was released by the rapper Logic this past year, 2017 in April. The song tells the story of being whoever it is you want to be while being accepting of others, it celebrates both unity and diversity. It's really reflective of the decade because not only is our country the most diverse it's ever been, but it's also clear that there's an increasing amount of divisions happening as well. The song is essentially talking about how to find your way through that and how people should embrace diversity rather than discourage it.

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Logic - Black SpiderMan ft. Damian Lemar Hudson (Official Video)

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The Black eyes Peas officially released their song in the year 2003 and looking at the lyrics, it's definitely fair to say that song isn't just a reflect of the 2000's, but pretty much a summary of the 2000's. In this decade there was definitely an increase in things like terrorism, racism, gang crime, war, intolerance and government skepticism. The economic growth that the decade experienced led to terrible consequences with mass extinction of species, social and environmental issues, as well as a stark decrease in energy resources. The lyrics of the song mention the majority of those things and generally questions the origins of all the negative hence the title "Where is the love?".

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The Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love? (Official Music Video)

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Performed by Celine Dion for the soundtrack of the film Titanic, "My Heart Will Go On" was released in the year of 1997. The story the song tells is of how love will always be there and the heart will always go on, regardless of what the circumstances are. The song seems to showcase the resilience that the 90's had throughout the decade. There were more than 23 started throughout the 90's which meant a substantial amount of death and destruction...and yet there were still many instances of positivity and creation such as the birth of the world wide web and the first gene therapy trial.

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The English band Culture club wrote and released this song on there 198 album Colour by Numbers. The lyrics of the song seem to mostly be about ongoing change that's sometimes good and sometimes bad, presumably depending on the karma and energy of the circumstance. The instrumental to the song is upbeat, with a fast paced tempo that's certainly reflective of the fast pace of the 80's. Just as the song, there were definitely many shifts in terms of positive and negative events; for example while there were many socioeconomic change thanks to technological advances and there was a wide spread increase of economic liberation, there were also negatives. This was also the decade where the AIDS epidemic came to light and yet another cold war started. In relation to this decade, the song said it best when its stated that the times would just "come and go" no matter what they were.

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Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (Official Music Video)

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Written in the year 1978 for the hit musical Grease, this song was performed by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John; it's deemed one of the best-selling singles of all time. The lyrics of the song are equally hopeful and happy; half of the song is about changing for the better, while the other half is just about being happy with present. The story of this song reflects the story of the 70's because this decade was also one that saw a lot of positive change and progressiveness; a few times in the song, the singers talk about "shaping up" to get to a good place and in 70's social values and policies began "shaping up" in that there was more emphasize on expanding political and economic liberty of women in the decade.

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Grease - You're The One That I Want [HQ+Lyrics]

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Neil Diamond composed the song and it was record by the popular group The Monkees in the year of 1966. The song tells a story of person who doesn't necessarily have faith or hope in "fairy tales", namely love and happy endings but then a change occurs and the singer transitions from being a skeptic to being "a believer". The story of the song relates back to the story of the decade primarily because just like within the song, the sixties were a time where some big changes occurred. In fact, these changes were so big that this era is often referred to as the Swinging sixties;  social norms were constantly shifting to be more lenient especially in relation to racism and sexism.

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The Monkees- I'm a Believer (music video)

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Performed by Elvis Presley but written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, this song came out in the year of 1957. Despite supposed setting being in a jail (hence the title), the lyrics speak of fun times and pretty much just partying, which matches the tempo and instrumental aspects of the song which are just as quick and upbeat in general. Rock and roll exploded during the 1950's and mostly influenced younger crowds such as teens, which this song reflects in the way that it's lyrics have a very wild and carefree vibe to them. Rock and roll started to go against that very traditional thought of teens having to rush to adulthood and support families by encouraging them to just "rock out" and enjoy the positive sides the way the song entails; the 50's were the first decade to do that, while rock and roll was the first genre to reflect that.

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Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (Music Video)

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This song made is debut in 1944 with lyrics by the famous American folk singer Woody Guthrie. The song speaks of unity and of one land that was made "for you and me", namely everyone. This song couldn't have been more reflective of the time period as it was released just after the ending of World War 2. It reflects the unity found in the formation of international organizations founded in this time period including the United Nations, that were ultimately put in place for the international community to work together because at the end of the day, we're all in the same metaphorical boat (Earth), which the song relayed through the message of "this land was made for you and me".

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This song was released in the year of 1939 with music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Yip Harburg and first vocally performed by young actress Judy Garland for The Wizard of Oz movie. The melody is gentle and soft while the lyrics speak of positivity and of hopes that there's a place where there isn't any trouble, only happiness. This song reflects the "Oz craze" that present in this period following the movies released, as it influenced culture.  More significantly, it coincided with the events of World War 2 and was taken up as an unofficial anthem of American soldiers and a symbol of the country. It reflected their hopes of going home and to a place where there war wasn't prevalent--'with no troubles' and 'somewhere over the rainbow' like the message of the song.

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This song was released in the year of 1920 written by George Gershwin and performed by Al Jolson. The beat and melody of the song is fairly upbeat and the lyrics are focused on how much this singer misses "Swanee" which seems to in reference to the South,  more than they thought that they would, which makes them realize how much they love it can't wait to return. The song is really accurately reflective the time period during which it was initially released. The roaring twenties was really an era about partying, jazz and moving up, along with racial issues obviously. The song reflects this well given that it falls under the category of jazz via it's use of an upbeat instrumental and melody; the first released recording of the song even took place at jazz club, which reflects the party aspect of the Roaring Twenties time period. Unfortunately, the performer sung it in blackface, which reflects on the racist tendencies of the time period as well.

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This song was written in 1919 by Jaan Kenbrovin and music credited to John Kellette. The tune is rather soft and a tempo of medium speed kept throughout, with lyrics that speak of dreams and progress. The singer keeps "blowing bubbles", continuing to dream despite the fact they point of that the bubbles never last, so they just keep on trying. This is reflective of the time period because in the 1910's, we see World War 1 come into play and while the nation keeps "blowing bubbles" and hoping for peace, the violence continues on and doesn't actually end until 1919. It really plays on the idea of having hope even though bad things continue to happen, which is something people had to cling to in the 1910's during this horrible conflict.

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Burr & Campbell - I'm forever blowing bubbles (1919)

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While still in his teens (probably in 1902), Burr began recording for Columbia. The first Columbia recording on which his name appeared was released in 1904. In 1906, he joined the Columbia Male Quartet, which recorded under the name Peerless Quartet for the Victor label.

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This song was released in the year of 1908 with lyrics by Jack Noroworth and Albert Von Tilzer. The lyrics are pretty simple and straightforward; the singer just expresses a deep want to go to a baseball game and experience things like eating traditional "game snacks" including peanuts and being able to root for the home team. The reflects on the time period because baseball was a really big deal, it still is really, but during this time it was generally known as "the American sport"  and it pretty much dominated US culture. This song is often referred to as the unofficial anthem of baseball in North America and it's been sung at many games since it's release.

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The anthem to the game of baseball. These are the original lyrics. words by Jack Norworth, music by Albert Von Tilzer published by The York Music Co., New York City sung by sheet music singer Fred Feild piano according to the sheet music tempo = 160 bpm, tempo di valse 1.