I heard this song the other day by Donovan Frankenreiter called "Heading Home." When listening to the lyrics I couldn't help but realize how much our Media & Society class related. We talk about how the media can shape us, how advertisers can convince us, and how society eats it all up.
If you've never heard this song, you should definitely pay the 99¢ on iTunes and listen to it.
Before you do though, it helps to know the background of the guys singing. To put it plainly, they live the life most of us can only dream of. They live in Hawaii, take exotic surf trips around the world, surf all day - every day, and write music, all while getting paid ridiculous amounts of money to do it.
But what's cool about these guys is they never tried to write popular songs and make tons of money, they just did what they love and it caught on.
The lyrics talk about a multitude of things I guess. The gist of the song is we shouldn't always believe what we're told. Get back to the basics, believe what you find out on your own, "You gotta go somewhere ya never gone."
Excessive cell phone use, computer viruses, world pollution, corrupt politicians, and war are about .01% of all the worries in the world, and those alone could take years to work out. What the song isn't trying to say though is ignore the problems of the world. It's simply raising the question, "What could you do to make the world a little simpler?" Any ideas...?
But what's cool about these guys is they never tried to write popular songs and make tons of money, they just did what they love and it caught on.
The lyrics talk about a multitude of things I guess. The gist of the song is we shouldn't always believe what we're told. Get back to the basics, believe what you find out on your own, "You gotta go somewhere ya never gone."
Excessive cell phone use, computer viruses, world pollution, corrupt politicians, and war are about .01% of all the worries in the world, and those alone could take years to work out. What the song isn't trying to say though is ignore the problems of the world. It's simply raising the question, "What could you do to make the world a little simpler?" Any ideas...?
1 comment:
Gees louise...you've just persuaded me to search for that song. It's late, so I won't do it tonight, but I'll let you know what I think about it when I get to it. Good Blog. =)
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