https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg An analysis of Songs through the Decades (1900-2010) en-us 2018-01-09 17:56:54 UTC 2018-01-13 04:15:04 UTC hello@padlet.com erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/219879913 A Bird in a Gilded Cage by Arthur J. Lamb and Harry Von Tilzer]]> 2018-01-09 17:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/219879913 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/219883655 This song is about a beautiful and fashionable woman who married an older, richer man for his money. She marries a man not out of love but out of wealth and is not happy with this relationship. She is seen as a beauty trapped within the confines of wealth without happiness, freedom, or contentment.
This song is a reflection of the new millennium's rise of materialism. It represents the prosperity and economic rise of the United States in 1900 and how riches affected people at the time. ]]> 2018-01-09 18:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/219883655 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/219897022 Some of These Days by Sophie Tucker]]> 2018-01-09 18:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/219897022 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/219900261 This song is about the relationship between a couple who are splitting up. The woman in the relationship is saying that the man is going to miss her when he is gone from her. It also tells how both will have feelings of loss and loneliness when they are not together. 
Some of These Days is a reflection of the changing time during this decade. The 1910's was a decade of great change and the song reflects these changes and how some viewed previous days with melancholy in the face of these new and changing times. ]]> 2018-01-09 18:33:48 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/219900261 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/219910253 Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue by Art Landry]]> 2018-01-09 18:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/219910253 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/219912615 This song is about flapper life in the 1920's and is in reference to the extravagant lifestyle developed in the 1920's due to the economic strength in the U.S at this time. ]]> 2018-01-09 18:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/219912615 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220277167 Crossroad Blues by Robert Johnson]]> 2018-01-10 17:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220277167 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220282445 Crossroad Blues details the story of a man (Robert Johnson) selling his soul to the devil in exchange for success and mastery of the guitar and blues. 
This song reflects the hardships many people faced during the 30's and the Great Depression. It shows the lengths that some would go to, to escape the hardships and reality of that the 30's provided. ]]> 2018-01-10 17:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220282445 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220289028 I Don't Want to Set The World On Fire by The Ink Spots]]> 2018-01-10 17:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220289028 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220291908 This song is about how a man soul desire is to capture the heart of the woman he loves. He does not have any other ambitions and will only find contentment with her. He is willing to do anything to impress her but really only wants her to fall in love with him. 
I Don't Want to Set The World On Fire reflects ]]> 2018-01-10 17:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220291908 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220929696 Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly]]> 2018-01-12 12:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220929696 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220932830 The Song is about loosing a love that you were in a relationship. though she is gone you still long for her and you want her back. The title of the song derives from the bands drummer's girlfriend at the time. 
The song reflects the changing sound of music at the time and the introduction of Rock and Roll music into society. It also represents a cultural change from the way relationships and love has evolved from the previous decades. ]]> 2018-01-12 12:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220932830 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220938958 She is a Rainbow by The Rolling Stones]]> 2018-01-12 12:46:52 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220938958 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220942001 "She is a Rainbow" is an about the beautiful qualities that the woman in question displays. How her beauty compares to the natural beauty of the world and that there is nothing like her. There are other meanings that are more sexual and are more aligned with the typical subject The Rolling Stones sing about.
This song and the music represents a tone shift that came with the 60's and the rise of a counterculture. It displays the typical nature of this counterculture of color and love which is more recognized as a hippie culture. ]]> 2018-01-12 12:59:54 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220942001 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220949932 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard by Paul Simon]]> 2018-01-12 13:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220949932 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220953877 This Paul Simon classic is about a pair of parents seeing something they should not have seen, something possibly illegal and sexual, that caused a lot of commotion for the narrator and Julio even placing the narrator under arrest. This song tells the story of this event and the narrator unknowing of what his future will be as he leaves after being released by the radical priest. 
This song is representative of the continued existence and prominence of American counterculture that was born from the 60's and stretched through most of the 70's. Its subject and a possible reference to homosexuality are related to the sexual openness of this time period. ]]> 2018-01-12 13:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220953877 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220961404 This Charming Man by The Smiths]]> 2018-01-12 13:55:27 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220961404 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220965782 This Charming Man is a song about a young, poor boy being enticed by an older, richer man offering him a more "comfortable" life as a reference through the lyrics "Why Pamper Life's complexities When the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat." There is also a sexual undertone throughout the song that seems to hint that the Older man is attracted to the younger boy. This is seen with the lines "This man said, 'It's gruesome that someone so handsome should care.'" It is saying that the older man thinks the boy is so attractive that he need not worry about what to wear. 
This song is reflective of the eighties culture and the change in the definition of masculinity. Through the eighties, there was a push for a more androgynous and less uber-masculine definition of what it means to be a man and this sing displays that through its first lines, asking will nature make a man of him yet. It also challenges the definition through the ambiguousness surrounding the narrators and singers sexuality. ]]> 2018-01-12 14:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/220965782 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/221155988 Today by The Smashing Pumpkins]]> 2018-01-13 01:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/221155988 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/221157361 This song is about the lyricists and singer for the band The Smashing Pumpkins. During the conception of the song, the singer was having suicidal thoughts and in a depressed state. This song represents this mood and those thoughts while applying a happy sound to them masking the meaning of the song. The song references these thoughts with self-mutilation in its first verse. 
This song is a reflection of the decades more intense and sad mood as this kind of subject matter was commonplace and growing to be more popular with new kinds of rock spawning like grunge and alternative.  

]]> 2018-01-13 02:05:02 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/221157361 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/221158433      Bye, Bye, Bye by NSYNC]]> 2018-01-13 02:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/221158433 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/221158987 Bye, Bye, Bye is a simple song about the end of a romantic relationship and how the guy has reached the end of his patience with it. The guy is ready to end the relationship which explains the Bye, Bye, Bye. 
This song represents the rise of Pop music in the 2000's and the continue the trend of overproduced music with little meaning behind them. This song is a Boy Band Song, an at the time this was a very popular kind of music with masses of teenage girls flocking to see these kinds of bands perform. Throughout the 2000's there was a massive influx of pop and hip-hop songs and this was part of the beginning of that. ]]> 2018-01-13 02:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/221158987 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/221159951 Step by Vampire Weekend]]> 2018-01-13 03:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/221159951 erios18 https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/221160227 Step by Vampire Weekend is a love song for music, it is about the relationship we have to music and the overprotected nature some of us have over the music we listen to ourselves. It is also about the many musical influences the band has adopted over the years. It is about in some way you make the music your listening to yours and establish such a deep connection to it. The girl that is mentioned throughout the song is music.
Since We have not yet exited the 2010's just yet, there is no way to truly tell how well this song represents the 2010's. But this song does represent the rise and growth of Indie music in recent times and the overprotective nature of people in recent times. This overprotectiveness has become present in different forms throughout the years and has manifested in different ways like the almost zealous protectiveness many Americans have of the country in regards to immigration. Truly the girl in the song, can be replaced with anything that has meaning to you and the message will still be the same. ]]> 2018-01-13 03:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/erios18/w4bhfsgrmbwg/wish/221160227