Follow these steps for this blog:1. Choose your favorite song by your chosen artist (for our project)2. Read and reread the lyrics to this song. Find the lyrics on line, and be sure to link them up in your blog. Also, print a copy, and turn in during class on Thrusday.3. Decipher the meaning of these lyrics.4. How do these lyrics resonate with you? What about your personality brought you to choose this particular song? Why do you identify with these lyrics? If you had never actually considered the lyrics to this particular song, what do you think about the song now?

1. Bullet and Target by Citizen Cope
2. http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/citizencope/bulletandatarget.html
4. These lyrics identify with me because they identify with everyone. I always considered the lyrics to this song, and most songs, I pay attention to lyrics. I guess the reason not everyone identifies with this song and I do is because not everyone has actively listened to it, or may not like the beat. I understand all the lyrics very well. This probably isnt my ultimate favorite song though because I have a lot but since I've been doing this project I've been playing it more often lately.

Due Thurs

Does your chosen musical artist (for the CD project) represent the values of your generation? Explain in a couple of well thought out paragraphs.

I don't think that I, single handedly, can remotely estimate the values of my entire generation. I believe my artist, Citizen Cope, represents my values very accurately. Citizen Cope's music inspires a change for the better for the individual in society. When I say 'in society' i mean in reference to the individuals place in society, as explained in one of Citizen Cope's most popular songs, 'Bullet and a Target'. And when I say a change for the better, I mean the chance to overcome society's placement of the individual between the bullet and target. Examples of this in the song specifically are referenced in the absence of woman in religon with "Ms. Dali Llamas", the Seorra Leone crisis, and the most in depth reference to a girl with a homosidal husband, as a result of an abusive past. The optimistic aspect in this song, and a great example of Citizen Cope's values in agreenece with mine, is the ending "cover of a magazine, just wondering how" (girl becoming a model) claiming the young girl's escape from her homosidal husband, overcoming her bullet and target, that was established by her past, and in reference to her husband, almost defined her future. So, overcoming society's bullet and target. This is one example of the values that correspond with mine, and I'd like to think my generation.

The video we watched was really interesting. It showed me the importance of breaking societys standards despite peoples objection to change.

Prompt #1

Spice Girls, than Backstreet Boys, than Outkast. I was 9. Not a lot about music was important to me, accept that I thought Nick Carter was hot.