ART AND POWER by Anne Wallimann

Lara et Adrien

2020-12-29 11:09:35 UTC

Maxime et Yvon

2020-12-31 15:13:47 UTC

Edwin, Exaucé et Tom

2021-01-02 10:22:12 UTC

The song is not a reggae song, is a pop rock.
The song significate tensions between people of white skin color and
those who are black in color and the power relationships between
educated people who are unruly towards them.
The artist write this music is « COLDPLAY », the music came out in
March, 12 th 2020, during the epidemic, the context of the music signifie police violence towards mainly blacks.
This music impact on the public because the police violence is
multiplied around the world.
We chose this song because we know the singers and it's talking about police violence.
“Because my sister can’t wear her crown”

This sentence refers to her ethnical hair color. Because they must not have hair for integrated to into society. Just like today, we can see the opposite of this situation with the secularism law who guaranteed the security of the population with different religions while the condition at that time forced afro people wearing scarves to integrated.

Lyrics:
[Verse 1: Chris Martin]
Trouble in town
Because they cut my brother down
Because my sister can't wear her crown
There's trouble, there's trouble in town
Blood on the beat (Oh-oh)
Oh my goodness, there's blood on the beat
Law of the jungle or the law of the street
There's blood on, there's blood on the beat

[Chorus: Chris Martin]
And I get no shelter
And I get no peace
And I never get released

[Verse 2: Chris Martin]
Trouble in town (Oh-oh)
Because they hung my Brother Brown
Because their system just keep you down
There's trouble, there's trouble in town

[Chorus: Chris Martin]
And I get no shelter
And I get no peace
And I just get more police, eh
And I get no comfort
And I get no name
Everything is gettin' strange

[Interlude: Young Men & Police Officer Philip Nace, Chris Martin]
Best friends
What's that?
What's his name?
X (Standby, sir)
Alright, is that X your middle name?
Of course, it's on a vehicle ID, right? (There must be some way)
You gettin' smart? 'Cause you'll be in a fucking car with him
I'm telling you
Fucking smartass (Or it's gonna kick off someday)
I'm asking you what the X is, is that your middle name?
Of course, what is it?
Don't come back with the "What is it?" fucking shit (There must be some way)
Talk to these fucking pigs on the street that way, you ain't talking to me that way
I don't talk to nobody in the streets, I don't hang with nobody
Well, then don't come to fucking Philadelphia, stay in Jersey
I have family out here
Everybody thinks they're a fucking lawyer and they don't know jack shit
Are you supposed to grab me like this?
Grab you up? I'll grab you any way I got to
You're not protecting me by stopping me while I'm trying to go to work
Why don't you shut up?

[Instrumental]

[Outro]
U Mandela Siyamthanda futhi uyaziwa yonk'
Indawo jikelele
Jikelele, jikelele
Jikelele, jikelele
Jikelele, jikelele
Jikelele, jikelele

Mahmoud et alix

2021-01-02 13:44:47 UTC

Lyrics:

America, hahaha, we love you
How many people are proud to be citizens
Of this beautiful country of ours, the stripes and the stars
For the rights that men have died for to protect?
The women and men who have broke their necks
For the freedom of speech
The United States government has sworn to uphold
(Yo, I want everybody to listen to the words of this song)
Or so we're toldI never would've dreamed in a million years I'd see
So many motherfuckin' people who feel like me
Who share the same views and the same exact beliefs
It's like a fucking army marching in back of meSo many lives I touched, so much anger aimed
In no particular direction, just sprays and sprays
And straight through your radio waves, it plays and plays
'Til it stays stuck in your head, for days and daysWho would've thought, standing in this mirror, bleaching my hair
With some peroxide, reaching for a t-shirt to wear
That I would catapult to the forefront of rap like this?
How could I predict my words would have an impact like this?I must've struck a chord with somebody up in the office
'Cause Congress keep telling me I ain't causing nothin' but problems
And now they're saying I'm in trouble with the government
I'm loving it, I shoveled shit all my life, and now I'm dumping it onWhite America, I could be one of your kids
White America, little Eric looks just like this
White America, Erica loves my shit
I go to TRL, look how many hugs I getWhite America, I could be one of your kids
White America, little Eric looks just like this
White America, Erica loves my shit
I go to TRL, look how many hugs I getLook at these eyes, baby blue, baby just like yourself
If they were brown, Shady'd lose, Shady sits on the shelf
But Shady's cute, Shady knew Shady's dimples would help
Make ladies swoon, baby (ooh, baby)
Look at my salesLet's do the math, if I was black, I woulda sold half
I ain't have to graduate from Lincoln High School to know that
But I could rap, so fuck school, I'm too cool to go back
Give me the mic, show me where the fucking studio's atWhen I was underground no one gave a fuck I was white
No labels wanted to sign me, almost gave up, I was like
"Fuck it, " until I met Dre, the only one to look past
Gave me a chance and I lit a fire up under his assHelped him get back to the top, every fan black that I got
Was probably his in exchange for every white fan that he's got
Like damn, we just swapped, sitting back looking at shit, wow
I'm like my skin is it starting to work to my benefit now? it's-White America, I could be one of your kids
White America, little Eric looks just like this
White America, Erica loves my shit
I go to TRL, look how many hugs I getWhite America, I could be one of your kids
White America, little Eric looks just like this
White America, Erica loves my shit
I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!See, the problem is I speak to suburban kids
Who otherwise woulda never knew these words exist
Whose moms probably woulda never gave two squirts of piss
'Til I created so much motherfucking turbulenceStraight out the tube, right into your living rooms I came
And kids flipped when they knew I was produced by Dre
That's all it took, and they were instantly hooked right in
And they connected with me too, because I looked like themThat's why they put my lyrics up under this microscope
Searching with a fine tooth comb, it's like this rope
Waiting to choke, tightening around my throat
Watching me while I write this, like, "I don't like this note"All I hear is, lyrics, lyrics, constant controversy
Sponsors working round the clock to try to stop my concerts early
Surely hip-hop was never a problem in Harlem, only in Boston
After it bothered the fathers of daughters starting to blossomSo now I'm catching the flak from these activists when they ragging
Actin' like I'm the first rapper to smack a bitch or say "faggot, " shit
Just look at me like I'm your closest pal
The posterchild, the motherfucking spokesman now, for-White America, I could be one of your kids
White America, little Eric looks just like this
White America, Erica loves my shit
I go to TRL, look how many hugs I getWhite America, I could be one of your kids
White America, little Eric looks just like this
White America, Erica loves my shit
I go to TRL, look how many hugs I getSo to the parents of America, I am the Derringer
Aimed at little Erica to attack her character
The ringleader of this circus of worthless pawns
Sent to lead the march right up to the steps of Congress
And piss on the lawns of the White HouseTo burn the - and replace it with a Parental Advisory sticker
To spit liquor in the faces of this democracy of hypocrisy
Fuck you, Ms. Cheney
Fuck you, Tipper Gore
Fuck you with the freest of speech
This Divided States of Embarrassment will allow me to have
Fuck youHahaha, I'm just playing, America
You know I love you

Alix et Mahmoud text

2021-01-02 15:17:24 UTC

Text:

« white America » of Eminem is a song published in 2002. Eminem is an american rapper, in most of his sounds, he talks about the government, the racism.

We have choose « white America » because in its lyrics, Eminem answers to the critics accusing him of being a bad influence for the white youth. In America, the rap is often boycotted by the white american who are racist, there is a logo « parental advisory », which prevents parents of the violence of the lyrics. Eminem was its target and for him that is censored which reduces the freedom of expression, as we can see in the sentence « the women and men who have broke their necks for the freedom of speech ». This is our favorite line in this song because freedom is very important.

Moreover Eminem use his song to fight against racism, he is a voice for the voiceless. Indeed, his rap is listened by white because he is white.

This song has a big relationship to power because it talks about the censorship and it challenges the white authority.

Louis C. & Marius

2021-01-02 16:20:15 UTC

Lyrics:
"Born down in a dead man's town
And the first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just to cover up

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says, "Son, if it was up to me"
'Went down to see the V.A. man
He said, "Son, don't you understand?"

I had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone

He had a woman in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run and 'got nowhere to go

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long time daddy in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A

Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A."

Born in the USA is a song from the same named album which came out in 1984 and was written by Bruce Springsteen. This music belongs to rock, it was written in order to denounce the Vietnam War and the treatment of its soldiers at the end of it and after this war.

In the first verse of this song, Bruce Springsteen criticize the american society. In the second one, he now criticizes the enrollment for this war, after this come the longest verse of the song. In this verse he talks about another soldier and criticizes the abandonment of the soldiers by the government and their mental issues because of the government.

This music was still used by the Republican Party because american people did not extend the lyrics to their political message and took its chorus literally, which says “I was born in the USA”, as if the singer was proud of it.

Clément R et Lucas T

2021-01-02 21:36:46 UTC

Text:
Another brick in the wall part 2 was composed by the British band Pink Floyd and featured in the album The wall, released in 1979. The group is made up of several musicians such as David Gilmour on electric guitar, Roger Waters on bass, Nick Mason (drums) and Rick Wright (synthesizer). Through the lyrics of Another Brick in the wall part 2, Roger Waters criticizes the rules and disciplinary sanctions (corporal punishment and blame) applied by normal schools in the 1950s, particularly in the United Kingdom. This discontent manifested itself by negative sentences such as "We don’t need no education" or "No dark sarcasm in the classroom ”to challenge this rigor. Then, the sentence "Hey teacher ... "is a cry of revolt that aspires to a change in the conditions of learning to school.
Then, the title is built from several musical elements that repeat themselves (the ostinatos). On the one hand, the Funky casserole dish, in D minor, derived from the influence of the wave disco in those years, are repeated 14 times until the bridge (until Hey teacher ...). Else On the other hand, the melody of the song repeats several times the same group of notes: ré-mi-fa-mi ect. At the same time, in the film The Wall, we find this monotony, expressed whith exaggeration, in the daily life of the pupils. It results in a constant repetition of gestures of the pupil. For example: the regularity and synchronization of student steps. Director of the film, Alan Parker, shows the consequences of this educational system, that is to say, alienation (mask, deformation of faces) and standardization (same clothes by example) of students at that time. The group uses a distorted sound with reference to rock (counter-culture movement) to accentuate their discontent. This sound may be perceived as a deviation from the norm due to its sound color (“dirty” and noisy sound as opposed to the “clear” sound to which the public was used to). Example of sanction: Often these words seemed almost involuntary, escaped their authors who did not fail to apologize immediately, which did not prevent not the sanctions. This was the case with R. de 3e15, who, not knowing his lesson and collecting a zero, then exclaimed: Oh cow! This sentence was addressed to his teacher to whom, he then apologized (2 days excl. + Blame), Documents used: JEAN BUGAREL: HISTOIRE du LYCÉE de NEVERS. RESEARCH, STUDIES, DOCUMENTS 1 FROM 1952 TO 1960 DISCIPLINE AND SANCTIONS

Lyrics:

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey, teachers, leave them kids alone
All in all it's just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave those kids alone
Hey teachers, leave those kids alone
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall

"Wrong, do it again! Wrong, do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
"You, yes, you behind the bike sheds, stand still, laddy"

Clément B et Roméo B

2021-01-03 18:52:36 UTC

This song is a song by Kendrick Larar called Alright published in 2015 on the album ``To Pimp a Butterfly”.

This song as a big impact on the public, he notably receives a Grammy Award for he best rap prestation

The lyrics are about the situation of African-American populations in the United States and in particular the police violence they have suffered. The United States know many murders of Afro-Americans.

The theme is immediately put in place, the rapper goes in the continuation of the song questioning the rights of the African-American population and the equality between the different populations living in the United States.

We took this song because, for us, the protection of every person is important.

Some lyrics are really strong and show a lot of violence : “Alls my life I has to fight” ,

“tell my mama I love her”, “I know is too late”, “we've been hurt”, “wanna kill us”.

Lyrics :
Alls my life I has to fight, nigga
Alls my life I
Hard times like, yah!
Bad trips like, yah!
Nazareth, I'm fucked up
Homie, you fucked up
But if God got us then we gon' be alright

Nigga, we gon' be alright
Nigga, we gon' be alright
We gon' be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alright
Nigga, we gon' be alright
Huh? We gon' be alright
Nigga, we gon' be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alright

Uh, and when I wake up
I recognize you're lookin' at me for the pay cut
But homicide be looking at you from the face down
What MAC-11 even boom with the bass down
Schemin'! And let me tell you bout my life
Painkillers only put me in the twilight
Where pretty pussy and Benjamin is the highlight
Now tell my mama I love her but this what I like
Lord knows, twenty of 'em in my Chevy
Tell 'em all to come and get me, reapin' everything I sow
So my karma come in heaven, no preliminary hearings on my record
I'm a motherfucking gangster in silence for the record, uh
Tell the world I know it's too late
Boys and girls, I think I've gone cray
Drown inside my vices all day
Won't you please believe when I say

Wouldn't you know
We been hurt, been down before, nigga
When our pride was low
Lookin' at the world like, "Where do we go, nigga?"
And we hate po-po
Wanna kill us dead in the street for sure, nigga
I'm at the preacher's door
My knees gettin' weak and my gun might blow
But we gon' be alright

What you want you, a house? You, a car?
40 acres and a mule? A piano, a guitar?
Anything, see my name is Lucy, I'm your dog
Motherfucker, you can live at the mall
I can see the evil, I can tell it I know when it's illegal
I don't think about it, I deposit every other zero
Thinkin' of my partner put the candy, paint it on the regal
Diggin' in my pocket ain't a profit, big enough to feed you
Everyday my logic, get another dollar just to keep you
In the presence of your chico ah!
I don't talk about it, be about it, everyday I see cool
If I got it then you know you got it, Heaven, I can reach you
Pat Dawg, Pat Dawg, Pat Dawg, my dog, that's all
Bick back and Chad, I trap the bag for y'all
I rap, I black on track so rest assured
My rights, my wrongs, I write 'til I'm right with God

I keep my head up high
I cross my heart and hope to die
Lovin' me is complicated
Too afraid of a lot of changes
I'm alright and you're a favorite
Dark nights in my prayers

I remembered you was conflicted
Misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same
Abusing my power full of resentment
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
Found myself screamin' in the hotel room
I didn't wanna self destruct, the evils of Lucy was all around me
So I went runnin' for answers

Louis/Yanis/Pape-P

2021-01-04 17:38:48 UTC

Lyrics
Ah yeah
Uh
Uh
Hollar if ya hear me

Yeah

Here we go
Turn it up
Let's start
From block ta block
We're snatchin' hearts
And jackin' marks
And tha punk police can't fade me
And maybe
We can have peace someday 'G'
But right now I got my mind set up
Lookin' down tha barrell of my 9
Get up
Cause it's time to make tha pay back phat
To my brothers on tha block--better stay strapped black
And accept no substitutes
I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school

Oh no, I won't turn tha other cheek
In case ya can't see us while we burn the other week
Now we gotta make it smash
Blast
How long will it last, till tha broke get more cash
Until then
Raise up!
Tell my young black males
Blaze up!
Life's a mess don't stress
Test
I'm givin'
Much love to my brothers in tha pen
See ya when I free ya
If not, when they shut me in
Once again, is there no one else strapped
Keep ya hands on ya gat
Now ya boys watch ya back
Cause in tha alleys of cali I'ma tell ya
Mess with tha best and tha vest couldn't help ya
Scream, if ya feel me
See it clearly? your too near me

Hollar if ya hear me
Hollar if ya hear me
Hollar if ya hear me

Pump ya fists like this
Hollar if ya hear me
(pump, pump) if ya pissed
To tha sell-outs livin' it up
One way or another you'll be givin it up
I guess 'cause I'm black boy
I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on

But it's time for tha new plan, BAM!
I'll be swingin' like a one man clan
Here we go
Turn it up
Don't stop
To my homies on tha block
Gettin' dropped by cops
I'm still around for ya
Keepin' my sound
Underground for ya
And I'ma throw a changup
Quayle, like you never brought my name up
Now my homies in tha backstreets
Tha blackstreets
They fear me when they rollin in they phat jeeps
This ain't just a rap song
A black song
Tellin' all my brothers, get they strap on
And look for me in tha struggle
Hustlin' to tha other brotha's bubble
Hollar if ya hear me
Hollar if ya hear me
Hollar if ya hear me

Will I quit, will I quit?
They claimin' that I'm violent
But still I kick
Representin'
Never give up on a good thing
Wouldn't stop it if we could
It's a hood thing
And now I'm like a major threat
'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget
Bring tha noise
To all my boyz
Know tha real from tha bustas
And the decoys
And if ya hustle like a real 'G'
Pump ya fists if ya feel me
Hollar if ya hear me
Learn to survive in tha nine-tre
I make crime pay
I was in crime pay
Whatever it takes to make a stand
Cause nobody else'l give a damn
So we live like caged beasts
Waitin' for tha day to let tha rage free
Still me, till they kill me
I love it when they fear me
Hollar if ya hear me

Hollar if ya hear me
Hollar if ya hear me
Hollar if ya hear me

Maxime et Yvon

maxreboul1 — 2021-01-04 18:48:26 UTC

TEXT :

We chose this song because we particularly like the artist, and the subject is in the news.

The song « Riot » was written by XXXTentacion in 2015, after the deaths of a lot of black men killed by the police in USA. The song mainly talks about murders of youngs African Americans by the police but also talks about the riots after these murders. In 2015, XXXTentacion wasn’t very famous, so the song wasn’t listened so much and didn’t receive much criticism and didn't have much of an impact, also because the murders of these young black men, while frequent, were not known to the world. The song broke through the whole world when XXXTentacion released the music video of « Look at Me », the song that made him famous, he decided to combine the two songs to get his message across. The « Riot »’s music video was hugely controversial because in the end he hangs a white child in front of a black child.

The lyrics of the songs explain the violence of the riots. With « I know you got your problems, but brother, they got theirs », X talks about the fact that the main purpose of the riots is to get a positive message out, but thugs bring violence and that's all it comes out of it. He also condemns police officers who abuse their power and authority, but he also condemns those who revolt as a form of protest. X just wants the thugs in the riots to think about and realize how much their actions can hurt others, he wants these people to use their anger peacefully. This song was released on streaming platforms like Spotify and Deezer on June 1, 2020, after the death of Georges Floyd, because it was originally released on SoundCloud.

LYRICS :

You ever seen a nigga hung with a gold chain?
I'd rather sing about the same things that we claim
Such is bashful, but niggas like the task force
Mobbin' on the streets and robbin' stores in ski masks, bruh

Niggas ask for peace in a riot and bring violence
'Cause it's a game of cat and mouse and you gon' bleed silent
What's the justice in sayin' fuck it and grab the pump?
Then kill a woman with many children makes you a chump

Look at all the stores you wreckin', nigga I reckon
Think about the people who own it for about a second
I know you got your problems, but brother, they got theirs
This is not a game, quit violence and grow a pair

But yo, you'd rather hear me say, "Fuck black prejudice!"
"Let's murder different races, grow hatred, and form irrelevant
Views and etcetera, knives thrown
Damage 'em, lives blown, oblivion hole cold, oblivious"

I won't dare say that you should stop the fuckin' ignorance
Murder ops, killin' shit, I'd enjoy the thrill of it
Bath in blood of officers, different corpses, offin' 'em
Auction 'em, don't you bark at 'em
Murder 'em, never heard of 'em

I could preach the peace but say, "Fuck it" and preach the murder
'Cause this ain't fuckin' life that we livin'
Go ahead and grab the extension
Grab another one, uncle, cousin, brother, son
Glory to all the chosen ones that will rid you of the innocence
But in a sense, innocent will soon behold the ignorance
Blasphemous, killin' our own, murderin' black-

We see, I see, death before the children
White guys and white girls hanging from the buildings

Text Louis/Yanis/Pape-P

2021-01-04 19:19:01 UTC

"Holler If Ya 'Hear Me" is a song by 2Pac of his full name Tupac Shakur, taken from his second solo album, Strictly 4 My NIGGAZ. It was the first single released from this album in 1993. The track, which uses an excerpt from the song "Do It Any Way You Wanna" by People's Choice and "Rebel Without a Pause" by Public Enemy, is an anthem of resistance. . Frustrations of black poverty, police injustice, and the persecution Tupac perceived by politician Dan Quayle fueled much of the media at the time. Pushing each other, bearing arms and refusing to comply are the main methods of combating these problems, and the deep words of the music bring listeners to the cause. The song is autobiographical in nature, making reference to various traumas experienced by Tupac himself, its revolutionary bent probably stemmed from his mother who was part of the Black Panthers, which is an African-American revolutionary movement. His mother also spent a few years in prison before Tupac was born for blowing up bombs in New York. Tupac had several problems with the police, because he was part of a gang and linked to illegal business. Also in 1992, because of his album "2Pacalypse Now" which contained songs about the police murders, a teenager kills a policeman in the State of Texas, which incurred significant media tolerance. The editor of Vibe was quoted in TIME magazine as saying the song struck a chord with much of the disaffected youth. The song was used by Michael Eric Dyson as the title of his book on the life of Tupac Shakur. Most of these songs deal with police violence and the abuse of powers by the police which he himself experienced when he lived in New York. It earned him the hatred of many, and I think his assassination in 1996. My favorite passage is "When I die, I want to become a living legend" because it looked like he knew something would happen to him and that this would prove that what he said in these songs was indeed true. This is what happened because after his death, he received diamond and platinium album.

2021-01-04 20:16:36 UTC

Esteban. Karl. Evan
The song is à genre of rock.

He speaks and sings that he does not want to be part of this nation and shows that he disagrees with the ruling power.

Titel of the song is America idiot

Esteban, Karl, Evan

karlbouvier4 — 2021-01-11 21:56:56 UTC

https://youtu.be/Ee_uujKuJMI

We have choose this music because we like the music and the denunciation they pass through in this music. They literally treats Americans of idiots… they don’t scared.

I knew « Green Day » and we shearched a music who have a power and we fond it !

« Television dreams of tomorrow » We like this lines because this lines have many understanding, like, the television sell a very good dream but it’s false, all is not true.