Friday, April 29, 2016

Macklemore - Wings:

We want what we can't have, commodity makes us want it
So expensive, damn, I just got to flaunt it
Got to show 'em, so exclusive, this that new shit
A hundred dollars for a pair of shoes I would never hoop in
Look at me, look at me, I'm a cool kid
I'm an individual, yeah, but I'm part of a movement
My movement told me be a consumer and I consumed it
They told me to just do it, I listened to what that swoosh said
Look at what that swoosh did See it consumed my thoughts
Are you stupid, don't crease 'em, just leave 'em in that box
Strangled by these laces, laces I can barely talk
That's my air bubble and I'm lost if it pops
We are what we wear, we wear what we are
But see I look inside the mirror and think Phil Knight tricked us all
Will I stand for change or stay in my box
These Nikes help me define me, but I'm trying to take mine off.

("http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/macklemore/wing.html")

These lyrics are from Macklemore's song "Wings". The song is about a boy, who wants to be good at basketball and tries to achieve that by buying cool shoes. The meaning of the song is that we are trying to define ourselves by following other people around us. In the music video, Macklemore is reading the lyrics from a book to little kids. This shows that the song is trying to send a message teaching people to be themselves and not blindly follow others. If you build yourself on what you wear, that's all you are, and without them, you are lost. The tone in the song is sad and rhythmical which makes it meaningful. The lyrics follow mostly a rhyme scheme AA, BB, CC... but at some parts ABAB. This chore has 8 stanzas that each has 2 lines. These lyrics works as a poem, because it follows the same rhythm, has stanzas and ending rhymes. The lines doesn't have same amount of syllables, but it is fixed by singing faster and slower and keeping small breaks.




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