Jace - i agree with you that it was saying that to have a good life you gotta have looks. I also like how u pointed out that no one in the video was ugly i didnt focus on that.
Vincent - I agree with how they were saying that love is what makes a meaningful life, and i like the connection u made with "love makes the world go around" you just made me remember that quote.
Katherine - I agree with you and the whole shes saying that to have a good life you need to be popluar and have boys coming after. I didnt really think much on the jealousy part, because no one in the video was really luking jealous, but i can see where u get the idea, yah and i agree with what marco wrote about the whole no one can admire someone thing, since thats how jealousy is, u start disliking the person b/c u want to be them.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Music Video analysis
1. What is the song basically saying about how to live a good life? Paraphrase the main idea.
2. What lyrics particularly speak to that perspective? Use quotes as evidence.
3. How do the video images support, re-orient, or challenge the dominant theme of the lyrics? Analyze.
4. What else do you notice that's interesting? Look for internal contradictions, aspects of the message that resonate with other messages from the pop culture, points that connect to your own perspective, etc. Analyze squared.
The video of the Beatles "all you need is love", is saying that in order to have a good life, all you need love. That loving one another makes life better, that the main thing in life is love, without it life would be meaningless, and not great. Also that whatever you can do, can be done.
Well the part of that all you need in a happy life is love was based on the part of the lyrics where they sing "All you need is love, all you need is love, All you need is love, love, love is all you need." The part where it looks like its saying is whatever you can do, can be done is fro the quotes like "There's nothing you can do that can't be done. Nothing you can sing that can't be sung." its like saying you can do whatever you want or put your mind into, kind of like there is nothing you cant do.
The images in the music video helps support the idea that love is all you need, because a bunch of people are like joined together in unity, which is sometimes used as a symbol of love because people think unity has to do with people loving each other. Also decorations are usually used for something happy, like flowers and colorful balloons make people think in a positive way, which goes with a happy life, since bright colors are usually seen as happy warm things, and since people like colorful things.
About the thing i wrote earlier about the quote "there's nothing you can do...can't be sung" I find that kind of ignorant/arrogant because not everybody can do a certain thing, like people who are disabled might not be able to do certain things that non-disabled people can do, like playing soccer, for those whose legs are paralyzed. Not everyone in this world can do just anything. Also for the love part, its also kind of ignorant/arrogant because love isn't the most important thing in life, sure it might be important, but its not the only thing we need for a happy life. Like money, we need money to buy food, clothes, and to pay our taxes, our bills, I find that money is more important then love, to have a better life, because we need food, water, and clothes more then love. We need food to survive and not die from hunger and clothes to cover our body parts. Love is just a feeling people think they can't live without, but its not like you're going to die if you don't have love in your life. So love isn't like the most important thing in life, so you can still live a good life without it.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
What other people think
All the people around me live different lives, yet their views of a meaningful life isn't that much different from each other. All the people I interviewed seem to share the same idea that friendship is an important part of their life that makes their lives more meaningful. They all seem to agree that friends are like another family to them, and because they cause happiness and are always there for them, that makes friendship meaningful in their lives. One specific interviewee, Alex, thought friendship was the most important thing for her, while others put family as number one in their list. When asked why, Alex simply replied, saying "Family is more troublesome then friends, and since I have a very small family, with no one my age and I hardly see them, to me friends are more important but only by a little".
The other five interviewee seem to think that family is more important and meaningful because they share the same blood, and grew up with them, so they have a more important bond with their families. After disagreeing and saying that friends are like family too, one interviewee, Belgica said “yes they can be, but family have the same blood as you, speak the same language, you grow up with them”. For that statement I just said “You can say the same thing for friends, I grew up with my best friend, knew her since I was a little kid and we both speak English and consider each other as family”. She agreed but argued that blood is more important because its apart of you, and that they can help you out whenever you need their blood. I asked her why family is so important in this world. She thought for a while before saying “I guess its because we were taught as kids that family is important, and to respect them, so I guess its like a habit that never ends” I found this interesting and tried to get her to explain it better, but she said she couldn’t explain it more then that.
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