Metaphors in Popular Songs by Jákup Michaelsen https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w en-us 2018-08-19 09:22:31 UTC 2020-03-03 03:51:35 UTC hello@padlet.com Anna https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896579 "You could talk to God, go banging on his door"
It is a metaphor - you can't bang on God's door! 
- getting closer to God by achieving your goal. 

Another one: 

"Cause you burn with the brightest flame"
You are on fire when you are trying to catch your goal.
You fight for your goal. 

Or: 

"You can beat the world"
You can't beat the world physically - metaphor. 
Being succesfull  

or: 
"You can move a mountain" 
That is not possible for a human being - metaphor 
- you can achieve what you want 
- be a difference 

Or: 
"You can break rocks"
You can't do that either - metaphor  
Means that you are abe to fight 


]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896579 "They say love is in the air, so IHold my breath until my face turn purple" https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896584 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896584 "I piss greatness, like goldish yellow" https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896587 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896587 Isabella https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896591 "Superman got nothing on me"
Superman is nothing in comparison to him
Conceptual metaphor:
Charlie Puth is the superhero

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"when you feel like hope is gone
Just run into my arms"
= When you are sad i will be there for you
Conceptual metaphor:
Charlie Puth is hope 


]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896591 Louise https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896595 " Someone who knows how to ride
Without even falling off"

- Someone who knows how to do things without failing

Conceptual metaphor 
" Precision is important "

]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896595 Frederik https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896599 Metaphor: "You're everything that i see" 

metaphor: "City's breaking down on a camel's back"

"Lining them up like ass cracks"]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896599 Josefine https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896601 "She is a deep sea, the tide will always bring her back to me"
- no matter how far away she is, something will always bring her back 

]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896601 Tihomir - "Can't Feel My Face" https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896603 "I can't feel my face when I'm with you
But I love it, but I love it, oh
I can't feel my face when I'm with you
But I love it, but I love it, oh, And I know she'll be the death of me, at least we'll both be numb
And she'll always get the best of me, the worst is yet to come" If you're reading this at first you'll think that he is referring to a girl, but he is actually describing his relationship with cocaine.  ]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896603 Kasper https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896605 "There's a hurricane in the back of her throat" You can't have a hurricane in your throat. In the song it could be a symbol of saying "you do this" when in reality you do something else]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896605 Alexander https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896606 "I let you push me past the breaking point"
Mental limits/stability becomes a physical thing
Conceptual metaphor

]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896606 Anders https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896608 Nickelback: "How You Remind Me"

"Been to the bottom of every bottle" 

Metaphor

He has hit the "bottom". Both in terms of drinking and his life in general. ]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896608 Emilie https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896610 Frank Ocean: Swim Good

"I feel like a ghost"
Simile 

"Waves are washin' me out"
Conceptual metaphor: 
Waves are medias/music producers
Me is his music]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896610 Mads https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896613 Let no one break me. Conceptual metaphor: A psyche is not something that can be broken but this metaphor refers to the psyche, as it is something breakable.  


]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896613 Mie https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896616 "Mistakes I have made
Cut me like a blade"
They don't literary cut you with a blade, but the pain it has caused is like being cut by a blade. 
]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896616 Maiken https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896619 Miley Cyrus: Wrecking Ball

"I came in like a wrecking ball"

She came in and destroyed it all. 

Simile]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896619 Emma https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896622 "Because when you find yourself the villain in the story you have written, It's plain to see" - metaphor for when you are the obstacle in your own life (conceptual metaphor: life is a story) 

"When there's a burning in your heart, An endless yearning in your heart, Build it bigger than the sun" - metaphor for letting your feelings be/grow and not keeping them bottled up (conceptual metaphor: Feelings are building material)]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896622 Gunnar https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896625 "Roll through the club like a
Tokoloshe"
(Tokoloshe is a little hairy african demon man with a giant horse penis)

Raging Zef Boner by Die Antwoord

Simile
He comes into the club and is an erect alpha male

Another one:
"They're mopping up the butcher's floor
Of your broken little hearts"

O Children by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 

Metaphor: Broken hearts are physically destroyed by butchers, and then able to be mopped up.
]]> 2018-08-19 09:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/engelsk/gc6284wrbe8w/wish/273896625