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Summer Friends – Chance the Rapper  The song I will be analyzing is called “Summer Friends” by Chance the Rapper (Chance). I decided to analyze this song not only because it is one of my favorite songs but also because it covers issues in low-income under-resourced communities.  In both of the song’s verses, Chance reminisces… Continue reading Journal 3 – Danny Flores

In Small Beauty, the way that the author wrote Mei’s perspective and inner thought process when she was alone did allow me to actually feel in her head to some degree. This was often the result of how the writing seemed to reflect or integrate a more natural stream-of-consciousness narrative style in portraying Mei’s inner… Continue reading Journal 3- Emily Zhang

Taylor Swift’s folklore album was one of her most well received, and she broke from her traditional personal storytelling lyricism by writing stories about other people, both real and imagined. Her song Betty is indicative of this, as it’s written from the perspective of a 17 year old boy named James who’s singing to his… Continue reading Margarethe Conner Journal 3

A few years ago, I discovered the band The Drums and fell in love with their indie-rock stylistic elements, with many of their songs containing prominent drumbeats, catchy guitar riffs, and complex uses of reverb. In listening to their less-popular songs, however, I discovered that many of their themes and lyrics tackle the lead singer… Continue reading Journal 3 – Eileen Hernandez

Troye Sivan’s “Angel Baby” incorporates aspects of 90s music into a pop ballad, focusing on a gay relationship between Sivan and his lover. When I first heard the song, I didn’t realize that it was mapping a queer relationship. The only pronouns used in the lyrics are “you” and “me,” reflecting an intimate conversation between… Continue reading Journal 3 – Chloe Chen

PROMPT 2: GENRE ANALYSIS & MUSIC “Off My Face” by Justin Bieber is an acoustic-ballad. It falls very neatly into the acoustic genre because of the soft guitar used as the base of the song. Although the song is also a ballad, I do not feel that it follows the general convention of ballads in… Continue reading Journal 3 – Laura Zvinys

PROMPT 1: THINKING THROUGH THE CHARACTER EFFECT IN LITERATURE I would say that I “identify” with Bernadette in Small Beauty the most. Growing up in an Asian family, I could certainly relate to how the disapproval of the older family members could have such a big impact on one’s life. Reading the part where Nai… Continue reading Journal 3 – Amy Chou

PROMPT 1: THINKING THROUGH THE CHARACTER EFFECT IN LITERATURE Identification Perspective I can say to a certain extent that I relate to Mei in Small Beauty in certain mannerisms that I hold and the way I can understand and relate to her actions in different contexts. I will never be able to relate to her as a… Continue reading Reading Prompt 3 Joe Byun

PROMPT 2: GENRE ANALYSIS & MUSIC Analysis of Teenage Dream. Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream is a YA-pop-yearning-anthem. According to wikipedia, pop music is orientated towards younger audiences and in its post-1960s era has become” associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music). Teenage Dream, linked above, is a classic early 2010s sing-along… Continue reading Discussion 3, Chloe Wegrzynowicz

What are the possibilities of politicizing disidentification, this experience of misrecognition, this uneasy sense of standing under a sign to which one does not belong? Butler answers: ‘it may be that the affirmation of that slippage, that the failure of identification, is itself the point of departure for a more democratizing affirmation of internal difference”(Muñoz… Continue reading Journal 2: Carmen Yohannes