# data[].attributes.body
Great detail for the song post. I appreciated the message about spreading joy and positivity. For the Beatles post you taught me a lot about them that I wasn't aware of and did a good job relating back to Emerson's work. For the Whitman piece you took an interesting tone that while it diverts from the original reflects to struggles of the error. Some of the word choice could be a little more sophisticated and I am not sure if screaming gets across what you are really trying to show in the connotation of the word.

# data[].attributes.body
The song Cheap Thrills by Sia portrays the trait of simplicity through explaining you don't need money to have a good time. Even though many people believe you need to have money in order to have a good time, the song is explaining you can be happy and live a good life without it. The artist shows this message through repeating the phrase I ain't got cash but I got you and and I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight showing how people can live a good life without things and money. Similarly to Walden by Henry Thoreau it also shows the message of simplicity that you should live freely not worry about having money because it won't matter in the end. Both the song and text show the message that you don't need materialistic things to live freely and because you don't need those things you shouldn't live to have them but instead live for the experience. In the piece Thoreau brings up the topic why people even need to feel successful through having money but you can also show success by being happy without money which Sia proves too in her song.
The song Born This Way by Lady Gaga can show the transcendental idea of self reliance by proving you can be you can be happy with who you are and have confidence in yourself no matter what. The song explains that everyone is different in their own way and where born for a reason so you should be confident that you are good and strong enough. The singer portrays this message by in her song saying that you should love and respect yourself because you were put on this earth for a reason to do good and be great and n one else's opinion should hold you back from believing that. Likewise to Self-reliance by Ralph Emerson it also gives the lesson of self reliance to be confident in yourself even if others think differently. Emersons piece and Sia's song each show the message that people should be proud of themselves even if people say otherwise because you where born and alive for a reason different from everyone else so you shouldn't listens to others opinions and love yourself for who you are. In Self Reliance, Emerson explains how many people only show a little part of themselves, the only part they want others to see because thats what they are proud of but you should reach for your own success thats all of you and not hide away other parts.

# data[].attributes.body
I hear America screaming, the different voices I hear,
Those of immigrants, each one screaming against transportation
The politician screaming as he boasts his wealth and success,
The impoverished screaming as they eat a greasy meal, or gains a overdue notice
The celebrity screaming what new brands have signed with them, their fans screaming in the comments
The minorities scream, the people turn their heads, or look down or close their eyes
The muted screaming of the depressed, or of the young girl starving herself, or of the anxious
Each screaming out to be heard to bring awareness
The day doesn't belong to themselves but to others- at night they reflect and see they have to do it again the next day
Screaming with broken cords their powerful silenced voices crack

# data[].attributes.body
When The Beatles were first starting out their career they looked for a chance to make fame with Decca Records. After auditioning for them on New Years Day 1962, Dick Rowe, the head of Decca Records misunderstood their music and told them "Guitar groups are on their way out..." (Rowe). However this did not stop them and soon made history. This group over came obstacles and showed self reliance by not giving up and believing in themselves. For example, in the winter going into spring of 1963 the Beatles produced recordings, during this time, "fascination with the Beatles—at first confined to young British fans of popular music—breached the normal barriers of taste, class, and age, transforming their recordings and live performances into matters of widespread public comment" (Miller). Even though the Beatles were first seen as different and not typical music and style during that era in society they came out on top. The fab Four were not your typical boy band through their taste, class age, what they wore, etc. but that didn't stop them, they believed in themselves that they were great and fabulous musicians. The group loved the music they made and what they were doing which is more important than doing it just to earn money already showing their success even if others didn't approve like Rowe. To continue, the British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson recommended the Beatles to be made members of the British Empire in 1965. This was protested by past recipients and military veterans because it was against what they viewed as the royal order's dignity being decreased (Miller). Although some people underestimated the Beatles like the recipients and veterans causing them to think the Beatles deserved their praise they were still successful in their own eyes and others without the approval of others. They also showed a strong embodiment of Emersons belief through not giving up despite others opinions and where proud of themselves either way. Since many people didn't understand why they were great it lead them to be even more accepting and confident in themselves since other weren't accepting.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
the Beatles, British musical quartet and a global cynosure for the hopes and dreams of a generation that came of age in the 1960s. The principal members were John Lennon (b. October 9, 1940, Liverpool, Merseyside, England-d. December 8, 1980, New York, New York, U.S.), Paul McCartney (in full Sir James Paul McCartney; b. June 18, 1942, Liverpool), George Harrison (b. February 25, 1943, Liverpool-d. November 29, 2001, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), and Ringo Starr (byname of Richard Starkey; b. July 7, 1940, Liverpool). Other early members included Stuart Sutcliffe (b. June 23, 1940, Edinburgh, Scotland-d. April 10, 1962, Hamburg, West Germany) and Pete Best (b. November 24, 1941, Madras [now Chennai], India).

Formed around the nucleus of Lennon and McCartney, who first performed together in Liverpool in 1957, the group grew out of a shared enthusiasm for American rock and roll. Like most early rock-and-roll figures, Lennon, a guitarist and singer, and McCartney, a bassist and singer, were largely self-taught as musicians. Precocious composers, they gathered around themselves a changing cast of accompanists, adding by the end of 1957 Harrison, a lead guitarist, and then, in 1960 for several formative months, Sutcliffe, a promising young painter who brought into the band a brooding sense of bohemian style. After dabbling in skiffle, a jaunty sort of folk music popular in Britain in the late 1950s, and assuming several different names (the Quarrymen, the Silver Beetles, and, finally, the Beatles), the band added a drummer, Best, and joined a small but booming "beat music" scene, first in Liverpool and then, during several long visits between 1960 and 1962, in Hamburg-another seaport full of sailors thirsty for American rock and roll as a backdrop for their whiskey and womanizing.

In autumn 1961 Brian Epstein, a local Liverpool record store manager, saw the band and fell in love. Unshakably convinced of their commercial potential, Epstein became their manager and proceeded to bombard the major British music companies with letters and tape recordings of the band, finally winning a contract with Parlophone, a subsidiary of the giant EMI group of music labels. The man in charge of their career at Parlophone was George Martin, a classically trained musician who from the start put his stamp on the Beatles, first by suggesting the band hire a more polished drummer (they chose Starr) and then by rearranging their second recorded song (and first big British hit), " Please Please Me," changing it from a slow dirge into an up-tempo romp.

Throughout the winter and into the spring of 1963, the Beatles continued their rise to fame in England by producing spirited recordings of original tunes and also by playing classic American rock and roll on a variety of British Broadcasting Corporation radio programs. In these months, fascination with the Beatles-at first confined to young British fans of popular music-breached the normal barriers of taste, class, and age, transforming their recordings and live performances into matters of widespread public comment. In the fall of that year, when they belatedly made a couple of appearances on British television, the evidence of popular frenzy prompted British newspapermen to coin a new word for the phenomenon: Beatlemania. In early 1964, after equally tumultuous appearances on American television, the same phenomenon erupted in the United States and provoked a so-called British Invasion of Beatles imitators from the United Kingdom.

Beatlemania was something new. Musicians performing in the 19th century certainly excited a frenzy-one thinks of Franz Liszt-but that was before the modern mass media created the possibility of collective frenzy. Later pop music idols, such as Michael Jackson in the mid-1980s and Garth Brooks in the 1990s, sold similarly large numbers of records without provoking anything approaching the hysteria caused by the Beatles. By the summer of 1964, when the Beatles appeared in A Hard Day's Night, a movie that dramatized the phenomenon of Beatlemania, the band's effect was evident around the world as countless young people emulated the band members' characteristic long hair, flip humour, and whimsical displays of devil-may-care abandon. Indeed, their transformative social and cultural influence was even recognized among the upper echelons of political power. In 1965 each of the four Beatles was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), having been recommended for the honour by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (and despite a brief storm of protest by some previous recipients, mainly military veterans, against what they perceived as a lowering of the dignity of the royal order).

The popular hubbub proved to be a spur, convincing Lennon and McCartney of their songwriting abilities and sparking an outpouring of creative experimentation all but unprecedented in the history of rock music, which until then had been widely regarded, with some justification, as essentially a genre for juveniles. Between 1965 and 1967 the music of the Beatles rapidly changed and evolved, becoming ever more subtle, sophisticated, and varied. Their repertoire in these years ranged from the chamber pop ballad " Yesterday" and the enigmatic folk tune " Norwegian Wood" (both in 1965) to the hallucinatory hard rock song " Tomorrow Never Knows" (1966), with a lyric inspired by Timothy Leary's handbook The Psychedelic Experience (1964). It also included the carnivalesque soundscape of " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! " (1967), which featured stream-of-consciousness lyrics by Lennon and a typically imaginative arrangement (by George Martin) built around randomly spliced-together snippets of recorded steam organs-a tour de force of technological legerdemain quite typical of the band's studio work in this era.

In 1966 the Beatles retired from public performing to concentrate on exploiting the full resources of the recording studio. A year later, in June 1967, this period of widely watched creative renewal was climaxed by the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, an album avidly greeted by young people around the world as indisputable evidence not only of the band's genius but also of the era's utopian promise. More than a band of musicians, the Beatles had come to personify, certainly in the minds of millions of young listeners, the joys of a new counterculture of hedonism and uninhibited experimentation-with music and with new ways of life. (Various members of the band in these years flirted with mind-expanding drugs such as LSD and also with exotic spiritual exercises such as transcendental meditation, a technique taught to them by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a barnstorming guru from India.)

In those years the Beatles effectively reinvented the meaning of rock and roll as a cultural form. The American artists they admired and chose to emulate- Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, the pioneering rock composers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the influential soul songwriter Smokey Robinson, and, after 1964, folksinger and topical songwriter Bob Dylan -became widely regarded as canonic sources of inspiration, offering "classical" models for aspiring younger rock musicians. At the same time, the original songs the Beatles wrote and recorded dramatically expanded the musical range and expressive scope of the genre they had inherited. Their close vocal harmonies, subtle arrangements, and clever production touches, combined with an elemental rhythm section anchored by Starr's no-nonsense drumming, created new standards of excellence and beauty in a form of music previously known for amateurism.

After 1968 and the eruption of student protest movements in countries as different as Mexico and France, the Beatles insensibly surrendered their role as de facto leaders of an inchoate global youth culture. They nevertheless continued for several more years to record and release new music and maintained a level of popularity rarely rivaled before or since. In 1968 they launched their own record label, Apple; hoping to nurture experimental pop art, they instead produced chaos and commercial failure, apart from the work of the Beatles themselves. The band continued to enjoy widespread popularity. The following year Abbey Road went on to become one of the band's best-loved and biggest-selling albums.

Meanwhile, personal disagreements magnified by the stress of symbolizing the dreams of a generation had begun to tear the band apart. Once the collaborative heart and soul of the band, Lennon and McCartney fell into bickering and mutual accusations of ill will. By now millions of dollars were at stake, and the utopian aura of the performers was in jeopardy, given the discrepancy between the band's symbolic stature as idols of a carefree youth culture and their newfound real status as pampered plutocrats.

In the spring of 1970 the Beatles formally disbanded. In the years that followed, all four members went on to produce solo albums of variable quality and popularity. Lennon released a corrosive set of songs with his new wife, Yoko Ono, and McCartney went on to form a band, Wings, that turned out a fair number of commercially successful recordings in the 1970s. Starr and Harrison, too, initially had some success as solo artists. But, as time went by, the Beatles became as much of a historical curio as Al Jolson or Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley before them.

In 1980 Lennon was murdered by a demented fan outside the Dakota, an apartment building in New York City known for its celebrity tenants. The event provoked a global outpouring of grief. Lennon is memorialized in Strawberry Fields, a section of Central Park across from the Dakota that Yoko Ono landscaped in her husband's honour.

In the years that followed, the surviving former Beatles continued to record and perform as solo artists. McCartney in particular remained musically active, both in the pop field, producing new albums every few years, and in the field of classical music-in 1991 he completed Liverpool Oratorio; in 1997 he supervised the recording of another symphonic work of large ambition, Standing Stone; and in 1999 he released a new classical album, Working Classical. McCartney was knighted by the queen of England in 1997. Starr was also very visible in the 1990s, touring annually with his All-Star Band, a rotating group of rock veterans playing their hits on the summertime concert circuit. Beginning in 1988, Harrison recorded with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison in a loose amalgam known as the Traveling Wilburys, but, for most of the 1980s and '90s, he had a low profile as a musician while acting as the producer of several successful films. After surviving a knife attack at his home in 1999, Harrison succumbed to a protracted battle with cancer in 2001.

Early in the 1990s McCartney, Harrison, and Starr had joined to add harmonies to two previously unreleased vocal recordings by Lennon. These new songs by "the Beatles" served as a pretext for yet another publicity blitz, aimed at creating a market for a lavishly produced quasi-historical series of archival recordings assembled under the supervision of the band and released in 1995 and 1996 as The Beatles Anthology, a collection of six compact discs that supplemented a 10-hour-long authorized video documentary of the same name. A compilation of the band's number one singles, 1, appeared in 2000 and enjoyed worldwide success, topping the charts in such countries as England and the United States. The afterglow of Beatlemania may have disappeared, but the iconography of an era of youthful tumult had been reverently preserved for posterity.

The Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and Lennon (1994), McCartney (1999), Harrison (2004), and Starr (2015) were also inducted as individuals. In September 2009, specially packaged digitally remastered versions of the Beatles' entire catalog and a Beatles version of the popular electronic music game Rock Band were released simultaneously. After it was reported in February 2010 that the financially troubled EMI was soliciting buyers for its Abbey Road Studios, where the Beatles made the great majority of their recordings, the British Department for Culture, Media, and Sport declared the recording complex a historic landmark. EMI subsequently announced that it would retain ownership of the iconic studio while seeking outside investment to improve its facilities.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Beatles | Members, Songs, Albums, & Facts

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Beatles, British musical quartet of enduring popularity.

# data[].attributes.body
I do not want to be on my death bed and looking back at my life thinking Wow, I could have lived my life so much better if I wasn't so hostile because I spent so much time hating on things when I could have been appreciating  it or thinking in a more positive way. Thats how I want my life to be. I want to live a happy and fulfilling life but in order to do that you can't hate and focus on the negative side of things. Where Is The Love? by the Black Eyed Peas shows the message well to spread love and kindness because it can only cause others and yourself happiness but hating can not. For example, one part of the song reads, "Whatever happened to the fairness and equality Instead in spreading love we're spreading animosity Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity" (Black Eyed peas). In order to live happily and lovingly its important to understand why people act differently and negatively. Maybe they are going through a part of their life where they are facing challenging problems and its hard for them to be positive and spread love when everything around is showing them otherwise. If others can understand that and show those people going through a hard time they are not alone than they will not feel as negative and will feel more connected and together. To continue some problems people face are caused by hate, anger, and revenge of others so by thinking in a loving way those problems won't even start. The song shows, "And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah Madness is what you demonstrate And that's exactly how anger works and operates Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight" (Black Eyed Peas).  They are saying that hate causes problems and madness so by loving those problems will go away and the world will be a better place.  When you start to experience problems caused by hate, anger, revenge it causes you to do the same ending up in a chain reaction spreading to everyone. By loving, appreciating, and staying positive those problems aren't caused and people can live better and happier lives which is how I want to live. My strength is that I think very realistically to prepare myself for negative outcomes so it doesn't hit me as hard. Many people see it as thinking negatively just because its not the most optimistic way to think which is not true, I am always hoping for the best but prepare for the worst. By preparing for the worst, you come off as more calm because in your head you know what happened could have been much worse which. So by being more clam makes other more calm.