Unit 2
lyrics analysis
Who is the performer?
The performer of the song common people is pulp.
what is the genre?
The genre of common people is alternative rock and rock indie britpop
What do are the lyrics talking about?
The lyrics are about class devide economic difference of the working class and relationships
lyric type
narrative
autobiography
abstract
first and third person
spiteful
she is naive
clueless
not streetwise
delirious
frustrated
stupid
Common people by the pulp is in first and third person
for example
pulp uses first person using I , I'll
" That's where I caught her eye
She told me that her Dad was loaded
I said "In that case, I'll have rum and Coca-Cola"
She said "fine""
this emotion we see here is frustrated as his he thinks she thinks it like a game which we know living in working class its not a joke.
he also uses third person for example he say she and he says this repetitively
It seems he is trying to make her understand this is and not to be naive about the difference in classes
however pulp also uses second person "You wanna live like common people
You wanna see whatever common people see
Wanna sleep with common people
You wanna sleep with common people like me?" this sounds as pulp is in disbelief to what she saying and just saying it repeatedly.
This song common people is a autobiography but also narrative he know what the common folk go through and he tries to tell her the story to stop her from being fixated on this path
The message for this song is how the rich think the poor are fun it show different views and different cultural as she will stick out like a sore thumb which when you do your more likely become more of a target
You wanna live like common people
You wanna see whatever common people see
Wanna sleep with common people
You wanna sleep with common people like me?
But she didn’t understand
And she just smiled and held my hand
In yellow is rhetorical questions as if to say you don't want that as he has gone through stuff she would not want to understand
[Bridge]
Oh, rent a flat above a shop
And cut your hair and get a job
And smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
'Cause when you're laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah
in red he is saying you are lucky as she can call her dad and it will all be fine
telling her not everyone is as lucky as you are
My lyric analysis
mamma mia - money money money
I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay
Ain't it sad?
And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me
That's too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn't have to work at all, I'd fool around and have a ball
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world
Aha
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It's a rich man's world
It's a rich man's world
A man like that is hard to find but I can't get him off my mind
Ain't it sad?
And if he happens to be free I bet he wouldn't fancy me
That's too bad
So I must leave, I'll have to go
To Las Vegas or Monaco
And win a fortune in a game, my life will never be the same
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world
Aha
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It's a rich man's world
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world
Aha
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It's a rich man's world
It's a rich man's world
The performers of money money money is ABBA the genre of money money money is Pop schlager disco. The song was wrote by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. The audiences of this song was fans of ABBA and adults looking for a partner who is financially stable which a lot of adults are looking for. The influence of this song was financial freedom and when this song came out the scene of gambling. The alliteration the song does not really change all the way through which its makes singing this song more easy to do and this not os informal.
Money money money is narrative and autobiographical this is shown in the lyrics
"I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay" and "If I got me a wealthy man"
she is the character and she is the main person she goes to work all hours to pay the bills but if she had a wealthy man which tells us that she is not married its giving of as if she is tired of the same thing day in day out.
she is also using first person through the whole song even when she say " i work" and "my life" making it more relatable to the common folk.
The theme of this song is money which has always been a sore subject to many people and how it can be hard to come into wealth either by marrying into wealth or gambling she is even is even imagining it when she says "Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money" which this lyric is repeated all the way through the song 10 times it is repeated making the message jump out of the song .
The mood of this song is upbeat which which does change when she gets to Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world
the piano and base go low as its trying to tell you if she did have a rich man it a rich mans world and this is repeated with each time for example the first example is
" I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay
Ain't it sad?
And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me
That's too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn't have to work at all, I'd fool around and have a ball"
the second example is
" get him off my mind
Ain't it sad?
And if he happens to be free I bet he wouldn't fancy me
That's too bad
So I must leave, I'll have to go
To Las Vegas or Monaco
And win a fortune in a game, my life will never be the sameA man like that is hard to find but I can't
the melody change each time
the ideaa for this song goes on what happened historically there was a finical crises in the 1976 the sterling crises.
which resulted in a lot of spending cuts. Their is no resolution in this song.
the recurring phases and words in this is money and in a rich mans world which is the theme of this song is all about how being wealthy would make thing a lot easier when she say in a rich mans world
and here is another example of the repeats
" All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It's a rich man's world
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world
Aha
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It's a rich man's world
It's a rich man's world"
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