Vietnam war song by Miguel Acosta

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

alejandro_contreras — 2018-04-18 13:24:24 UTC

Written in 1971

Marvin Gaye is cool

alejandro_contreras — 2018-04-18 13:31:18 UTC

He was born April 2, 1939. Marvin Gaye found peace through music by playing the piano and drums. Then in the 1950's he joined a group called The New Moonglows. His First hit wouldn't come until 1962. In 1970, during the Vietnam War, he was inspired to write a song due to the rising violence and political unrest. This song was caused some conflict between Mowtown and Gaye due to it's creativity, but was released anyways 1971. This song being "What's Going On". This song became an instant hit and Gaye made a whole political album called What's Going On and still kept his Motown following. The album won Rolling Stone Album of The Year and Gaye later parted from Motown and continued his career as a singer.

Brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying you know we've got to find a way to bring some lovin' here today, eheh

miguel_acosta — 2018-04-18 13:34:51 UTC

This snippet is talking about boys dying in war and people are loosing family members and we have to find away to resolve this problem and we should all love each other so that people stop dying.

Why does it matter?

alejandro_contreras — 2018-04-20 03:01:58 UTC

This song addresses a political/social issue during the time period. It's addressing a political/social issue because he speaks of the troubles going on in families with mothers crying over the death of their sons and fathers encouraging the government to continue on in the war even though the U.S isn't really progressing in the war. He also speaks on the protesters during this time and how they shouldn't be attacked by the government when all they are looking for is peace and love between Vietnam and the U.S.

Father, father we don't need to escalate you see, war is not the answer for only love can conquer hate

miguel_acosta — 2018-04-20 04:23:07 UTC

This is again going back to showing that we all need to learn to love one another and we need to stop this unneeded war and the only way to stop is by loving each other.

Picket lines and picket signs Don't punish me with brutality Talk to me, so you can see Oh, what's going on

miguel_acosta — 2018-04-20 04:27:49 UTC

Here it is talking about people protesting and how people are getting beaten because they are protesting and instead of using force they should talk to the people so that they can learn what the people think and so that the people can show them what is actually going on.

miguel_acosta — 2018-04-20 04:37:39 UTC

This image is really capturing what the whole song is about. Instead of fighting in a war we should be making love with one another.

miguel_acosta — 2018-04-20 04:45:56 UTC

This picture is showing police attacking the people and all the people want is for them to listen to them and not hurt them. They want to show them their side of what is happening but they aren't able to show them whats going on because they are being attacked by the police.

miguel_acosta — 2018-04-20 05:01:02 UTC

This is a picture of soldiers that had been killed in Vietnam and there is no need for these people to be dying and we have to resolve this problem so that no more soldiers are dying. We have to make sure that these boys stop dying for no reason at all.

Yuh

alejandro_contreras — 2018-04-20 12:36:27 UTC

1. “Marvin Gaye-Singer-Biography.” Biography.com, A&E Television Network, 27 Apr. 2017, www.biography.com/people/marvin-gaye-9307988.
2. Shmoop Editorial Team. "What's Going On Lyrics." Shmoop. Shmoop University, 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 20 Apr. 2018. .
3. Manhhai. "Vietnam War 1965 - Flag-draped Coffins of Eight American Servicemen Killed in Communist Attacks." Flickr. Yahoo!, 11 Apr. 2017. Web. 20 Apr. 2018. .

Oh, but who are they to judge us Simply because our hair is long

miguel_acosta — 2018-04-20 13:16:32 UTC

This is talking about that since they were hippies people judged them and it wasn't fair. The people weren't listening to what they were trying to say

Flexicution by Logic

alejandro_contreras — 2018-04-20 13:20:55 UTC

There are major differences between both songs. You have Marvin Gaye singing about the struggles of the Vietnam war, all the emotions going through peoples heads and the many things that happened to many of the U.S people during this time period. Then in our modern day, we have songs like Flexicution and Logic talks about his rise to fame and how he now is one of the best in the rap game. Now that he is in the rap game he is thankful for that. There isn't much to it. The meaning of flexicution is someone who brags, but not really gloating in repetition.