Blog Assignment #2: Aim #2: Worldly Success
Cash Money Heros, "I made it", Hip Hop, 2010 [Song Posted]
Aim # 4: Liberation
Fireflight, "What I've Overcome", Rock, 2010 [Song Posted]
I felt that this blog assignment was a lot easier to complete than the last one since concepts of wordily success and liberation is seen in the American music industry. Out of these two aims I found that wordily success was slightly easier to find music for over liberation. Wordily success was very common among in the Hip-Hop and Rap genre. Its possible because most of those songs are either talking about sex, partying, or going from rag to riches. Most of the music that I found for liberation were from bands that claimed to be “Christian Rock”. To look for liberation, I used the term slightly loosely than the Hindu meaning, to mean any way in which a person found salvation. So many of these Christian rock songs found salvation through Jesus or God. The wordily success aim that the Hindu culture claims is very similar to the American view in wordily success because both are talking about achieving material satisfaction and making the most of yourself. The liberation aim was slightly different in the American music I found because most of the songs were specific in achieving liberation through Jesus. Although the song that I posted the video for, “What I’ve Overcome” by Fireflight, had a strong correlation to the Hindu view of liberation because it talks about an internal change (with struggles) that caused the singer to see herself differently and to view the world differently.
I agree that certain songs are found in different genres. Your point about liberation songs in Christian songs made total sense and I wish i would have looked in that specific category!
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