My Portfolio Genre/ Theme is heart break country. Country is a beautiful kind of music. A lot of people don't care for country or think its just cliche about women and beer. To some people it talks to them. I believe music in general speaks to people in different ways. music makes you who you are, When you pop those headphones in , you forget about everything. That test you need to study or homework, you forget all about it. With the music your not in reality anymore like you can leave the world for just a little bit. The music causes you to feel and drift with the beat. You end up dancing to the music. When you come back it seems like your refreshed. To some people it is just background music but to me it is so much more. Thats why I love country its about feelings and love. It makes you want to close your eyes enjoy the music and wallow in it.
In the song "The House That Built Me" it really talks to me because it talks about one of those things we all fear when we get older, the idea of moving away from home and starting your own life. Your scared that you will forget all about your old life. I feel like I will miss the sound of my mom's snoring and my dad's deep laugh and the flash of the TV light on my bedroom wall telling me my parents are still up. The sound of the TV lulls me to sleep most nights even now. When you move away you forget about who you are, say you were born on a farm and then you move to the city. You forget all about your life as a farmer all you remember now is going job to job, driving in cars breathing the stinky city air. But you lose yourself in it that you have to come home to find yourself, even though your parents are not alive anymore you need to go to the place where you grew up and became the person who you are.
In the song "A Little Bit Stronger" the song is about a break up and how the person copes with the pain. Like everyone does they hide it they pretend nothing is wrong, they pour all their sadness and hurt into their job. It talks about each day it is easier to breath and get over the pain of hurt. In some country songs you feel the pain and hurt those speakers talk about and for some unknown reason you start to cry. You cry for the pain and loss the person in the song had or more like you are in the speaker's shoes, you imagine the hurt and pain and you cry for it.
In the song "You Can Let Go Daddy" its about a daughter who has a father who is overprotective and every important event in her life she was the one to tell her dad that is it was okay to let go. This is one of the songs I cry when I hear. The father is dying, but he won't let go unless he knew his daughter was okay. He didn't want to leave her and it must of been hard for the daughter to tell her dad that he could go. That she was brave enough to go on in the world without him. I also love this song because it is a father I wish I had father who was like that. The one I was daddy's little girl I didn't have that though I can wish though. I feel like you listen to things you wish you had. When I was real little I always wanted to live in the west and be a cow girl. Every girl dreams of one day her knight comes and sweeps her off her feet. Every girl dreams that.
In the songs "The House That Built Me" and" Remember When" is all about growing up. In the house that built me it talks about the sadness and the feeling of moving away from home and missing it. Missing the place where you grow up and how you became who you are. In the song "Remember When" it is about a couple looking back on their life how the good memories were. These both show heart break as growing old. "In The House That Built Me" it is more about growing up and losing the person who you are. You forget where you came from and they come back home to find it. It is heartbreaking because she remembers the memories she had growing up she cries remembering the little things she did in the house. Like where her dog was buried or the place where she slept and learned to play guitar. "In Remember When" it is the heartbreak of all those memories of being young and falling in love, having children and watching them grow up. They are sad that their children grew up but they are happy they are making a life of their own.
In the songs " A little Bit Stronger" and "Stay" both the speakers are dealing with the heartbreak of someone leaving them. In "A Little Bit Stronger" the speaker's heart was broken by a man leaving her when she was so deeply in love with him. It was hard to get over him and for a while she was hurting but didn't show it by putting a fake smile and pushing through the pain. In the song "Stay" the speaker has a man who comes and goes. He isn't committed to her, if he gets a call from another woman he leaves the speaker's arms for another woman's arms. The speaker is sick of him leaving, she just wants him to stay. Every time he leaves, he breaks her heart. The speaker is contemplating if she should just leave him for good and end the torture. Both songs talk about heart ache afflicted by a man.
In the song "Book Of John" and "Whisky Lullaby" Both the songs are about the sadness of losing a loved one. In the song "Book Of John" the speaker lost his father years ago, but when they were cleaning around they found the book of memories about the father. They call it the Book Of John because its about the memories of what fun they had back then when the father was alive. The speaker also explained how the book gave advice and he talked about one day passing on the Book Of John. Meaning handing it down to his son when he passes away because it holds memories and advice in that binder. In the song "Whiskey Lullaby" its about two lovers, the girl broke off the dating but she still loved him and he loved her. They were both hurting. They tried to cope with the pain by drinking whisky and one night the man could not stand the pain. He tried and tried to forget about her but he could never get drunk enough to forget her so he committed suicide thinking that if he died he would forget her. He left a note saying he loved her until he died. The girl struggled through the pain and the loss of him, she struggled to hide her breathe smelling of liquor . The man was buried under the weeping willow tree not soon after she joined him she couldn't live without him. Its a beautiful song in a way its beautiful because they couldn't live without each other so they were together atlas in a way. The heartbreak for this song was the pain of being separate from each other. "Book Of John" heart break was the pain of losing their loved one and missing the person they remember growing up with.
In the song, " Daddy You Can Let Go." In the beginning it wasn't heartbreak it was about a father who was too over protective with his daughter. In every important event the father was there hesitant on letting her go into the world. When the daughter was to be married, the father had to be told by the daughter that he can let go .That she will be okay. Every single time she was the one that had to tell her father he could let go, when usually it was the parent who let go. The child is the one holding on them for dear life, it was reversed here. When the father was dying he couldn't let go of his daughter. He had to make sure she was okay without him, once again she was the one to tell him that he could let got, that she will be okay on her own. It must of been hard for the girl to tell the father she will be okay and tell her father basically its okay to let go, to pass away. The heartbreak in the song happens when the father hesitates when letting his daughter go and get married because his daughter is now a grown up. She will be on her own and he shouldn't have to protect his little girl anymore, but he still does when he is dying on his death bed. He wanted to make sure if it was okay if he could let go. He always made sure it was okay to let go. This is a beautiful song and whenever I hear it I cry for the missing of it because I wish I had that because the speaker had a father who loved her so much he wanted to make sure she was ready for him to let go even if he wasn't really ready to let go himself.
in the song , "Why" the speaker lost someone she loved so much, he was her boyfriend. He died from cancer I believe. When he passes away, she was in her own world. She was depressed and they explained it like she was in a storm and the light which I think it as the people who love her couldn't reach her. She thought he left life too soon, she explains it as leaving the stage in the middle of song. She believed he didn't fight to live that he gave up on life and she want to know why he gave up and that who told him to just give up. She explains his song he left as his beautiful song and that you don't stop in the middle of the song. He had so much to live for the heartbreak is about the pain of losing someone they love it broke something in the speaker and she feels like no one can reach her. It is beautiful it shows us how when someone dies that the person is never really the same. They want that person back. They left their life too soon.
In country songs it talks about pain and suffering it seems country songs are all about that. What you don't understand is people sing about the sadness because they need to let it out. The pain and hurt the only way they know how to do that is to sing to be able to express how they feel. Country is a beautiful genre if you just give it a chance you will be able to love it the way I do. It isn't just music it is so much more, it makes you who you are. When you are hurting you can find any song you want and cry because that song is so you, you relate to the song and you just know how to let go of the pain your experiencing. I love country music for that reason and that reason only. The music talks to you and you can just melt away from reality and just listen to the music healing your broken heart. Country music is my life and it is to so many other people too.
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