Monday, April 1, 2013

Nicholas Giokas Journal #7


            The album Metropolis is a narrative story of Cindy Mayweather and her illegal love in the future world.  The songs go in an order to tell the story of Cindy throughout the hunt.  The first song makes it clear that they are sending professionals to disassemble Cindy piece by piece.  She also speaks to the president in the song “Mr. president”.  This song includes the subject matter of social classes and health care.  She is writing her letter to the president, but her letter is not a literal letter but instead a song that is on the album Metropolis. 
            This album fits in the urban/alternative genre of music. Each song has a very different fell from some jazzy to some seem like choir songs.  The reason I say its urban/alternative is because it has been nominated for an award for that genre of music.  I believe that her heritage and background has a large effect on her musical style.  She is a young African American female who is a new face on the music marketplace.  Her songs seem to cover mostly on a government or higher power that has control over some aspect of her life.  Previously in the song tight rope there was a lawmaking body that forbid dancing.  She is a fantastic dancer and that is where most of her originality shows.   In Metropolis there is a government that does not allow the love between the two main characters.  She also has had a rough upbringing because she started as the child of a lower class family that had many problems.  This explains the song Mr. President where she questions the president on how the money is spent and how the lower class is commonly forgotten. 

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