For Avanzado 2 (anybody is welcome to post, though). Post here your comments on language, cultural references, topics in this powerful song by Ani Difranco. Listen to the song while looking at some pictures which will help you interpret some of the references. If there is enough interest or posting, we could create a webpage on the analysis of this song at the Students’ Corner (EOI Getafe), and include some other videos. Enjoy!
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Is nobody going to listen to this song and/or pose comments or questions?
Let me tell you — it’s an interesting piece of work!
I love the part where she says:
Take away our Playstations
and we are a third world nation
Although I’m actually not into using “third world”. I actually use “superexploited countries”!
Sigh
Night night
My favorite lines:
Us people, we’re just poems
We’re 90% metaphor
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And the smoke was deafening
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And every dumb action movie
was summarily surpassed
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And this part gives me goose bumps!:
You can keep the Pentagon
You can keep the propaganda
You can keep each and every TV
that’s been trying to convince me
to participate
in some prep school punk’s plan
to perpetuate retribution
perpetuate retribution
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And when the music starts… with the toast! Whoah! It’s just far too much!
By the way, the Pine Ridge Reservation is an Indian Rez in one of the Dakotas.
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Peace in the form of a dream…
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And we hold these truths to be self-evident:
Number 1 George W. Bush is not president
Number 2 America is not a true democracy
Number 3 the media is not fooling me
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the CIA
or is it the KGB?
committing countless crimes
against humanity
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And what about this ending, and the very awesome last line?
Look
another key
another door
10% literal
90% metaphor
3000 some poems disguised as people
on an almost too perfect day
must be more than pawns
in some asshole’s passion play
so now it’s your job
and it’s my job
to make it that way
to make sure they didn’t die in vain
Ssshhh… baby listen… hear the train?
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A powerful song. Congratulations, Ani!
Awesome web site, where did you get the design template?