In grade 10 English we were supposed to bring in songs to analyse the meanings of. I thought I had a winner with this song, not knowing really what it was about too much but figuring it was something to do with lornesd's comments of "'i'm tired of blood' could refer to war, 'overpriced bubble gum' could refer to the capitalistic nature...". I figured I couldn't go wrong with Matthew Goodband! I didn't research it or anything because I wanted the class to analyse it together and learn what my teacher had to say about it. Well little did I know after I played it for the class he turned it off pretty quickly, shrugged and said "it doesn't mean anything" then moved on. I was so shocked and embarrassed in front of the whole class that I couldn't muster a word to defend the music I loved a grew up to. He then moved on to another song a peer brought in which was a Billy Talent song.. I think Standing In The Rain. They're catchy.. I'll give them that. But nowhere near good music, even by Canadian standards in my opinion. Well my teacher raved that not only was it a great song and catchy but it was full of meaning. I wanted to scream that if that song's "meanings" were any more evident it would be a pop-up book for 5 year olds. I didn't think the class was about analysing something that was so obvious it had a play by play literally in the lyrics!
In grade 10 English we were supposed to bring in songs to analyse the meanings of. I thought I had a winner with this song, not knowing really what it was about too much but figuring it was something to do with lornesd's comments of "'i'm tired of blood' could refer to war, 'overpriced bubble gum' could refer to the capitalistic nature...". I figured I couldn't go wrong with Matthew Goodband! I didn't research it or anything because I wanted the class to analyse it together and learn what my teacher had to say about it. Well little did I know after I played it for the class he turned it off pretty quickly, shrugged and said "it doesn't mean anything" then moved on. I was so shocked and embarrassed in front of the whole class that I couldn't muster a word to defend the music I loved a grew up to. He then moved on to another song a peer brought in which was a Billy Talent song.. I think Standing In The Rain. They're catchy.. I'll give them that. But nowhere near good music, even by Canadian standards in my opinion. Well my teacher raved that not only was it a great song and catchy but it was full of meaning. I wanted to scream that if that song's "meanings" were any more evident it would be a pop-up book for 5 year olds. I didn't think the class was about analysing something that was so obvious it had a play by play literally in the lyrics!