blogger 4 activism in M&A

I chose the song "Don't Laugh At Me" by Mark Wills and the genre of this song is Contemporary Country Music. This song is about kids, teenager moms, and homeless people that have suffer from some type of bullying to them. people from different ages that aren't happy with the way other's treat them, and how they ask for a better treatment from their oppressors.

What the lyrics say about the social issue of bullying is that there are kids who never smile because of braces and because they're chosen last on the playground. The lyrics also talk about teenage moms that for some reason  have to overcome their present reality now, with the responsibility of taking care of a child. The song says "don't have to be my friend, just don't laugh at me". The lyrics of this song also talk about a homeless who is ignored by others on the street.

Mark will is a well-known American Country music singer that started his professional singing career in the year 1996 with his debut album called " Eponymous". In the year 1998 he released the single "Don't Laugh At Me". Mark Wills as a singer has become a public figure that people look out to and that people listen to through his music. Mark has been recognized by the Recording Industry Association of America.
markwills.musiccitynetworks.com/index.htm?id=19082&sid=2446

This song was written by writer's Steve Seskin and Allen Shamblin and recorded by Mark Wills. According to the background information of this song, Allen Shamblin was inspired to writing this song due to the fact that one day his daughter came home from school and telling him that she was being picked on by other kids at school. The girl told her dad that she was being bullied because of her freckles. This song became a No.2 song on the country charts and leading to the Billboards Hot 100 songs. This song has also become an anti-bullying theme for other videos. The song itself has its own video to it that totally backs up the issue that the lyrics talk about which is bullying.

The art piece I chose for my social Issue bullying is called "The Eyes" by Amr Elshamy from (cairo Egypt). This art piece has no words but it shows a little kid walking across the school parking lot by himself, and in front of him there are three gigantic monsters with horns that seem to be looking at him like if they were waiting for him to get to where they are. The image also shows a foggy ambience a sort of cold and lonely moment. This piece of art clearly tells the viewers how kids who are molested and pick on see their aggressors and in this case the bully. That is what the bullied compare the bully with. They see bullies as gigantic monsters waiting to hunt them and hurt them. The artist did this piece of art based on his personal  experience on being bullied. He says that he was bullied all his life but he found an escape door through art. Amr Elshamy talks about how he was affected by bullies when he was in school and how he had to skip school days do to the aggression towards him. Elshamy's piece of "The Eyes" was created as part of the Bully Project Mural, The Mosaic Art For A Movement by Lee Hirsch, the filmmaker behind the 2012 bully documentary.

blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/the-bully-project-mosaic-art-for-a-movement.

Mario Ruiz 

Ms. Reyes 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B5YNiCfWC3A

Swimming pools
By: Kendrick Lamar
Art piece: alcoholism

Alcoholism

       Swimming pools Is a song by Kendrick Lamar that basically gives the majne reasons why most people drink and turn alcoholics. These lyrics say the most common reasons why people drink. " Now I done grew up round some people living their life in bottles Granddaddy had the golden flaskback stroke every day in Chicago Some people like the way it feels

Some people wanna kill their sorrows

Some people wanna fit in with the popular that was my problem. These lyrics gives 3 main reasons why people drink and one of the biggest reason why people drink is to kill their sorrows. It says his people get lost with so much alcohol they are consuming. It's so much alcohol it's like if the pool was filled up by liqour instead of water.

    The reason why Kendrick Lamar wrote this song is because he comes from a low income community and drinking rates are high. He saw many people drink their lifes away just like when he says his granddaddy lived he life away in bottles. An important person in his life lived away his life with bottles like many loe income citizens do. A reason why people should listen to me drick Lamar is because most of his songs are things he went through his life at a younger age. We should take the artist serious because the examples he uses in his song are true. Kendrick Lamar wrote this single with Tyler williams. There is a video that goes with the song. It's a very known songs being one of Kendrick Lamar's top hits.

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The title of the song is Wine into Water by T Graham Brown the genre of this music is Country. The song is about a man who is really troubled with alcohol and has hit rock bottom, because of that. He is begging God stop his want for wine to a want of water. It is a desperate plea to God. The lyrics discuss the problem everyone has with alcoholism. The lyrics also relates to Alcoholism by saying the ways people attempt to get rid of their desire for alcohol. The artist has credibility by sharing personal events of his life. He shares personal alcoholism events by manifesting them into a song. He is singing about it because this was something he was going through so he felt he should share it to the world.People should consider listening to this song and this artist. The reason why they should listen to this artist is because he sings about problems that many people go through. The artist made the song by adding real life examples in his music. T Graham Brown wrote Wine into Water. In the video it shows a man who expresses that he is clearly struggling in life due to alcohol. This adds a great effect which helps the audience feel sympathy for him.

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Song: Pretty Hurts By Beyonce

Art Piece: Eating Disorder by Kim Noble

Pretty hurts is a song by beyonce.  The song is about the things women go through to look pretty.the song is also about how woman will go through  surgery and other things and still not be happy with the way they look.
The lyrics are saying that the pressure for woman to outer beauty is very high. Its also about society's take on beauty and how it doesn't bring you happiness.'' perfection is the disease of a nation'' we think being perfect is having good looks, money etc. The media wants us to believe  that we should have good looks and money to be accepted.
Beyonce wrote the song with Sia furler. Her message was finding the beauty in imperfection. ''Its really finding yourself that brings you happiness'' she wanted to send a positive message to woman. there is a video to the song. in the video you can see what woman and the things they go through to look pretty
Beyonce talks about society's impossible standards and the pressure she feels to look a certain way.she can relate because she has struggled with this issue. Beyonce also did this song because she feels that a lot of woman struggle with this issue.
Eating disorder is a painting by Kin Noble that shows a woman wit a eating disorder in front of the mirror.
The woman that has the eating the eating disorder is skinny but view herself as being overweight. Noble suffers from dissociative disorder and uses painting to deal with her disorder.

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"I'm an ape man 

I don't feel safe in this world no more 

I don't want to die in a nuclear war 

I want to sail away to a distant shore

And make like an ape man"

Part 1:  ‘Apeman’ was created by a rock pop band called The Kinks (1963-1996). In the song, Davies sounds so fed up on the original footage that several viewers thought he was singing a certain f-word on the lyric, “the air pollution is a-foggin’ up my eyes”. Davies is upset with the modern world and declares that he wants to "sail away to a distant shore and make like an apeman". He explains how mankind has structured the world today and how “he would leave the cities and traffic to live in the jungle”.

Part 2:  Ray Davies usually sings and writes sarcastically about our way of living, but I suppose he was being serious in this song about wanting to get away from this society and to be able to live freely. This song is about how over the years we have become so overpopulated that human no longer cherish natural resources. The people don’t know now how to dealing with it all... We forgot how to live and conflict with falsities. In a world where the population keeps growing our space becomes limited.  Nature will also deal with it by increasing diseases, floods, etc. This song is also about someone who wishes to go back in time where people appreciated each other, apprehended value for one another, and things were generally much straightforward. Much of what we once knew as life still exists, but over the years it will decay. Instead of hunting, most of us work, etc. The biggest problem with humanity right now is overpopulation; anyway, it's just about going back to a life that is less worrisome of our own species, and less complicated. 

LYRICS: http://genius.com/The-kinks-apeman-lyrics

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The song I picked is “Helping Each Other Die “by Hollohan. The genre of the sing is Hip Hop. Helping Each Other Die, is about a couple that are extremely addicted to drugs. They are living in a world that they are both killing each other. They are extremely addicted that they don’t know the difference in reality and fanatic. He asks himself if its love or if they are two idiots addicted to drugs. That the drugs are like the devil, and he didn’t know it was so seductive. He and she are attractive to each other but the drugs tempted them to continue consuming more and more drugs. To the point of not being able to stop and end up killing yourself of to overdose. It is saying that drug addiction can lead you death; at some point the get extremely addicted that they need to consume even more. That the drugs at some point make you confuse and cause different type of emotions. When they get confused you cannot tell the difference in reality and the fanatic of drugs.

Hollohan did write this song, the song “Helping Each Other Die”. The video gives the song so much more effective because in the video you see the pain and you can feel the pain in the way he sings it and acts it. The song by itself is powerful, but the video gives it an extra push to make it even better. To make a effective song, I think you have to send a message to the audience and be able to connect with different persons. To be able to create emotions just by hearing him sing the song. The material that were used in my opinion is the social issue, of drug addiction. Drug addiction is a big part of a lot of people’s lives.  It has impacted, I think everyone at some point goes through this. I can be a family member, girlfriend, boyfriend, anyone.  The video over all takes 7:06 minutes. It is a good time and it teaches everyone something about drug addicts and the struggles they  face every day to get help or some don’t get help in time and sadly end up dying. 

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Title of song: I feel like dying. The artist is Lil Wayne and genre is Hip Hop.
http://genius.com/Lil-wayne-i-feel-like-dying-lyrics
Art piece: Prescription for abuse. Daniel Baxter Art.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/37928821835457537/

This song by Lil Wayne is the song that relates most to my topic of drug addiction. The song main point is that once the drugs are done, then the user feel like he is dying. This is the same feeling that drug abusers share with many different drugs. The feeling of being on top of the world while you are high, but the feeling of dying once the high is done. The art that i chose is extremely credible and strong because in the past years, prescription drugs have been abused more than previous decades. The lyrics in the song are describing the feeling of the drug along with a good description of the way the high makes you feel. It also describes the down side to the drug. My favorite lyrics from the song are "I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars". This relates to the art piece that i chose because Xanax is a prescription drug used to treat anxiety disorders and unfortunately it is now being abused and used by many people.

The musician is discussing this social issue because it is a part of his background. He is from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in a society witch is known for drugs. He was also from a broken family as his father left the family when he was only 2 years old. I believe that he also has a personal connection to this social issue. Music artist are known to be users of drugs and many have overdosed. The artist is also credible to talk and discuss the topic. The reason why we should listen to this person because for one he is a public figure and that gives him the power to reach millions of people. He is also a person who was raised in the environment where drugs are always around and that gives him a closer look at the world of drugs. The song was written by James Scheffer and also by unknown writers. There is no video on this song and that makes it hard for the song to be really popular but it does have many views on you-tube. The song makes itself effective because the lyrics are really detailed on the topic of drugs and maybe that is the reason why it is not as popular. The art piece has an incredible strong message, it contains a prescription drug bottle and inside the small bottle is a person. This is showing the viewers that even prescription drugs can get you addicted and put you in a bad situation. The art piece also shows pill and the words "pain" written on what seems to be a tape measure. Pain is one of the main reasons why prescription drugs can get addicting. They are highly accessible and they are legal. This art piece is not very popular but it is very effective because the message is clear, you will get trapped if you abuse the substance.