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Flawed Music and Broken Sounds World Scholars Cup Analysis:

Preface: I have done 92 pages covering everything for you guys for this topic. You want to

have a thick book for WSC, Hows this for starters? Also Please dont waste my time

saying wow so much work or how long did it take you to do this I dont want to be

reminded thank you.

Part 1: Pain in the Paint

No.1 - Death and Funeral of Cain ; David Alfaro Siqueiros ( 1896 - 1974) Social Realism

David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican social realist painterknown for his large murals in fresco.Along with Diego Riveraand Jos Clemente Orozco

, he established "Mexican Muralism

. HisCommunist activities led to numerous jailings and periods ofexile. He produced thousands of square feet of wall paintings in

which numerous social, political and industrial changes were

portrayed from a left-wing perspective. For Siqueiros, art andpolitics blended well together. He, again with Diego Rivera and

Orozco started theEl Machete, the weekly paper that became

the official mouthpiece for the country's Communist Party. He continued hisanti-Fascist theme during World War II and in 1974, Siqueiros died Cuernavaca

where he spent his last decade of his life.

In Muerte y funerales de Can, shown at the 1947 exhibition in the Palacio deBellas Artes, David Alfaro Siqueiros reveals his interest in landscape and movesaway from political themes. Siqueiros' experiments during that year in landscape
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painting led him to use an abstract vocabulary and, as in this case, includeunexpected elements in the scene. The dead chicken that we see is lying betweenthe ordered ranks of workers and soldiers and a small group on the other side ofthe divided land. The symbolism is purely personal in nature and may allude to theCold War.

No.2 - The Raft Of the Medusa ; Theodore Gericault (1791 - 1824) Romanticism

Theodore Gericaultwas an influential Frenchpainter and lithographer , known for The Raftof the Medusaand other paintings. Althoughhe died young, he was one of the pioneers ofthe Romantic movement

. Despite about threeyears of studio training, Gricault was largely

self-taught. He copied paintings in the LouvreAnd traveled to Rome, where he discoveredMichelangelo's works and the exuberance ofBaroque art. Gricault died in 1824 after aprolonged illness caused by a riding accident.His last major works, discovered almost fifty

years after his death, were penetratingportraits of the insane.
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The story behind the painting is as devastating as the desperation on canvas.

The Medusa was a French naval vessel that was on course off the coast of Africabefore running aground on a sandbar near Mauritania on July 2, 1816. After threedays of trying to free the ship from where it was stuck, the crew and passengerstook to the ship's six small lifeboats.

The problem was that there were 400 people on board, while the boats only had

the capacity to carry approximately 250. As a result, 146 men and one woman wereloaded onto a wooden raft that was both shoddily and hastily constructed.

With only one bag of biscuits, two casks of water, and several casks of wine, thepeople adrift experienced a hellish 13 days at sea. There was a great deal ofinfighting, with many people being thrown overboard, throwing themselvesoverboard, or cannibalized.

By the time they were finally rescued, only 15 men had survived. This caused ahuge scandal at home due to the slow response of the French government in the

rescue.The greatest inspiration

for this painting was the true story of the tragedy.When news of what had happened reached France, the public was rightfullyshocked and Gricault seized this opportunity to capitalize without commission onthe event.
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He foreshadowed the turn towards realism that would be seen in his own lifetimeand the modern use of the media as a political tool. In addition, a multitude ofprior artist's' influences can be seen in The Raft of the Medusa.

No.3 - Triumph of Death ; unknown ( Location : Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo )

(Painting Below)

The fresco is composed as a large miniature, where in a luxurious garden

surrounded by a hedge, Death enters riding a skinny horse. It is portrayed while

launching deadly arrows against characters belonging to all the social levels,

killing them. The horse occupies the centre of the scene, with its ribs well visible

and a scrawny head showing teeth and the tongue. Death has just released an

arrow, which has hit a young man in the lower right corner; it is keeping on a sidethe scythe, its typical attribute.

On the lower part are the corpses of the people previously killed: emperors, popes,

bishops, friars, poets, knights and maidens. Each character is portrayed

differently: some still have a grimace of pain on the face, while others are serene;

some have their limbs abandoned on the ground, and others are kneeling down

after having been just struck by an arrow. On the left is a group of poor people,

invoking Death to stop their suffering, but being ignored. Among them, the figurelooking towards the observer has been proposed as a possible self-portrait of the

artist.On the right is the group of the nobles, shown as having no interest in the

events, and most of them continuing their activities. They include several

musicians, richly dressed noblewomen and knights with fur clothes, as symbols of

life and youth. A man is keeping a hawk on his arm, and another is leading two

hounds. Note: May suggest to the Bubonic Plague that was present at that time

and the Plague and is represented by Death ( skeleton on horse )


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No.4 - Four Horsemen of the APOCALYPSE ; Victor Vasnetsov ( 1848 - 1926 ) Symbolism ,

History Painting

Vasnetsov was a Russian artist who specialised inMythological and Historical subjects. He isconsidered the co founder of Russian folklorist andromantic nationalistic painting. He was also a keyfigure in the Russian revivalist movement.


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(The lamb with the rainbow on top of the painting with a open book and a rainbowover it, has led me to believe that it represents the Lamb of God also known as

Jesus Christ who opens the seals to let out the Horsemen.)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described by John of Patmos in his Book of

Revelations, the last book of the New Testament. The chapter tells of a book, or

scroll, in Gods right hand that is sealed with seven seals. The Lamb of God, or Lion

of Judah, (Jesus Christ) opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons forth four

beings that ride out on white, red, black, and pale horses. Although some interpretations

differ, in most accounts, the four riders are seen as symbolizing Conquest, War, Famine,

and Death, respectively. The Christian apocalyptic vision is that the four horsemen are to

set a divine apocalypse upon the world as harbingers of the Last Judgment.

The White Horse

I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four

living creatures say in a voice like thunder, Come and see! I looked, and there before

me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as

a conqueror bent on conquest. ( Revelation 6:1-2)


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The Red Horse

When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, Come

and see! Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take

peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword. (Revelation 6:3-4)

The Black Horse

When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, Come and

see! I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of

scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living

creatures, saying, A quart of wheat for a days wages, and three quarts of barley for a

days wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine! (Revelation 6:5-6)

The Pale Horse

When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say,

Come and see! I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named

Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth

of the earth to kill by sword, famine, and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

(Revelation 6:7-8)

No. 5 - Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting The Plague-Stricken In Jaffa ; Antoine Jean Gros

(1771-1835) Romanticism

Jean Gros was both a French History

painter and neoclassical painter. Born in


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Paris, Gros began to learn to draw at the age of six from his father, who was a

miniature painter, and showed himself as a gifted artist.At the Salon of 1804, Gros

debuted his painting Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa. The painting

launched his career as a successful painter. It depicts Bonaparte in Jaffa visiting

soldiers infected with the bubonic plague. He is portrayed reaching out to one ofthe sick, unfazed by the illness. While Bonaparte did actually visit the pesthouse,

later, as his army prepared to withdraw from Syria, he ordered the poisoning (with

laudanum) of about fifty of his plague-infected men The painting was

commissioned as damage control when word spread of his actions. The painting is

in the Neo-Classical style, though it shows elements such as the lighting and a

taste for the exotic that are precursors to the upcoming Romantic ideals.On 25

June 1835, he was found drowned on the shores of the Seine

at Meudon

, near

Svres. From a paper which he had placed in his hat, it became known that "tiredof life, and betrayed by last faculties which rendered it bearable, he had resolved to

end it."
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The picture depicts General Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken French troops in

the courtyard of a Jaffa mosque being used as a military hospital. The scene took

place in March 1799 during the Syrian campaign. Bonaparte, ignoring the doctor

trying to dissuade him - touches a sore on one of the plague victims with his bare

hand. One of the officers watching has a handkerchief over his mouth. On the left,two Arabs are handing out bread to the sick. On the right, a blind soldier is trying

to approach the general-in-chief. In the foreground, in the shadows, the dying

men are too weak to turn towards their leader. The painter is implying that

Bonaparte's virtue and courage justify the horrors of war. Gros has given him the

luminous aura and gestures of Christ healing the lepers in religious paintings.

No.6 - Victims of Fanaticism ; Mykola Pymonenko ( 1862-1912)

One of the most eminent Ukrainian

genre painters, Pymonenko was

widely acclaimed in the Russian

Empire; a member of the Imperial

Academy of Arts since 1904 and of aprogressive Peredvizhniki artistic

movement and the turn of the

century, a member of the Paris

International Union of Arts and

Literature, who created many

paintings of rural and urban subjects.

A number of Pimonenko's paintings

are, in fact, generalized portraitswhich are the embodiment of a

popular ideal of the working man.

The artist also turned to the theme of

peasant labour, depicting typical

scenes from everyday life against the


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backdrop of a landscape. . In 1901 was appointed a full-time teacher of drawing to

the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, where he worked tili the last days of his life.

Pymonenko produced over 700 genre scenes, landscapes, and portraits, many of

which were reproduced as postcards.

Mykola Pymonenko (Priorka, March 9, 1862 - Kiev, March 26,

1912) was a Russian painter. A number of Pimonenko's paintings

are, in fact, generalised portraits which are the embodiment of a

popular ideal of the working man. The artist also turned to the

theme of peasant labour, depicting typical scenes from everyday

life against the backdrop of a landscape. The painting tells a story

about the real incident - punishment by the Jewish community in

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Jewish girl for her relationship with an Orthodox boy and her

transition to Christianity. She wears a cross on her neck.

No.8 - unnamed mural at Supreme Court - Jose Clemente Orozco ( 1883-1949 )

Born November 23, 1883, Mexican muralist Jos

Clemente Orozco created impressive, realistic

paintings. A product of the Mexican Revolution, he

overcame poverty and eventually traveled to the U.S.

and Europe to paint frescos for major institutions. A

man of unparalleled vision, as well as striking

contradiction, he died of heart failure at age 65.JosClemente Orozco was a painter who helped lead the

revival of Mexican mural painting in the 1920s. His

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This scene from a 1941 mural by Jos Clemente Orozco greets visitors entering the

Supreme Court of Mexico. Amidst a chaotic group of evildoers, Orozco has placed two

female images, recognizable as Justice because one has a sword and the other scales.But unlike the familiar rendition of an imposing woman at center stage, these Justices

are disconcerting.

One, elevated on a pedestal, lies backinattentive if not asleepher sword dangling

while disorder surrounds her. Below, a masked Justice is jostled while two men,

similarly masked, grab at her scales. More commanding Justices, marked by scales and

swords, have adorned government buildings from fourteenth-century town halls to

twentieth-century courthouses around the world.Court judgments are acts of force,

whether transferring property among civil claimants or depriving criminal defendants of

liberty. Governments of all kinds aim to demonstrate their ability to provide peace and

security and to legitimate such force. In the Renaissance, judges served as loyal servants

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to favor the rich or poor. Democracy radically reconceived the role of the judge by

insisting on independence and imposing obligations for open hearings that resulted in

shifting power to an observant public. In the twentieth century, new bodies of law

emerged, and women and men of all colors gained rights in many countries to be in

courts as litigants, witnesses, jurors, lawyers, and judges. Dockets grew, and

courthouses multiplied.

But as the Orozco mural suggests, dark undercurrents may flow behind imposing

courthouse faades. The Orozco murals tell us that democracy not only changed courts

but also challenged them. Deep problems arise when governments neither fund judicial

access adequately nor control elites who profit from privileged positions.

The murals offer a display, rare inside a courthouse, of laws failings. Orozcos critique

was not lost on his audience. The unveiling of the first 1,400-square-foot segment

resulted in the rest of the commissions cancellation. Decades later, however,

appreciation for his work prompted the Mexican Supreme Court to adorn its brochure

with his murals.What should people see when they enter courthouses? Around the

world, distinguished architects have designed celebratory glass edifices, explained as

denoting laws accessibility and transparency.

(kinda long yes? Just familiarize yourself with the artists and the paintings on what they

represent and what genre they are from)

Part 2 : Yours, Truly

No.1 - The Music Lesson ; Johannes Vermeer ( 1632 - 1675 )

Born in Delft, Netherlands, circa October 31, 1632. His

works have been a source of inspiration and fascination


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This work is one if Vermeer's greatest depictions of Dutch culture during the 17th

century. In this image we see a young lady having a music lesson playing the

virginal, a keyboard instrument. Virginals were commonly played by young ladies

and they produced a delicate, fine sound which was appropriate for women of this

time.

The music composed for the virginal always told of moral values and

enlightenment but also spoke of romance, love and happy adventures within the

virtues of religious order.The Music Lesson is from a wealthy upper-class scene,

as it was common practice for women from affluent families to partake in such

activities.Vermeer's idealism is evident in this canvas, as he paints yet another

depiction based on women's role in society and what he sees as righteous and

beautiful.

The viewer is left to imagine the narrative taking place and can create the music

filling the scene. Vermeer inserts various other instruments to reinforce a musical

theme, such as the viol on the floor.

No.2 - The Cardsharps Caravaggio ( 1571 - 1610 ) Baroque, Renaissance

Caravaggio was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and

Sicily. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human

state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a

formative influence on Baroque painting

.In his twenties Caravaggio moved

to Rome where there was a demand for paintings to fill the many huge

new churches and palazzosbeing built at the time. In 1606 he killed a

young man in a brawl and fled from Rome with a price on his head. He was

involved in a brawl in Malta in 1608, and another in Naples in 1609,

possibly a deliberate attempt on his life by unidentified enemies. This

encounter left him severely injured. A year later, at the age of 38, he died

under mysterious circumstances in Porto Ercole

in Tuscany, reportedly

from a fever while on his way to Rome to receive a pardon. Famous while

he lived, Caravaggio was forgotten almost immediately after his death, and it was only in the 20th

century that his importance to the development of Western art was rediscovered. Despite this, his

influence on the new Baroque style that eventually emerged from the ruins of Mannerism was

profound.
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The painting shows an expensively-dressed but unworldly boy playing cards with another boy. The

second boy, a cardsharp

, has extra cards tucked in his belt behind his back, out of sight of the markbut not the viewer, and a sinister older man is peering over the dupe's shoulder and signaling to his

young accomplice. The second boy has a dagger handy at his side, and violence is not far

away.Cardsharps, with its mixture of brutal low-life realism and luminous Venetian delicacy, was

much admired, and Orsi "went around acclaiming (Caravaggio's) new style and heightening the

reputation of his work." Caravaggio appears to have produced more than one version of the work (as

discussed in the provenance section below). Over fifty copies and variants made by other painters

have survived, with artists such as Georges de La Tour painting their own appreciations of the

theme. A cardsharp is a person who uses skill and/or deception to win at poker or other card games

No.3 - La Horde ; Wolfgang Beltracchi ( 1951 - present )
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This forgery is created in the style of Max Ernst

No.4 - Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife ; Jan Van Eyck ( 1390 - 1441 ) Renaissance

Van Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Brugesandone of the most significant Northern Renaissance artists of the 15thcentury.Little is known of his early life. The few surviving records

indicate that he was born c. 138090, most likely in Maaseik. Hetook employment as painter and Valet de chambre with John ofBavaria-Straubing, ruler of Holland, in the Hague around 1422,when he was already a master painter with workshop assistants.VanEyck painted both secular and religious subject matter, He washighly influential and his techniques and style were quickly adoptedand refined by Robert Campin and Rogier van der Weyden and later

generations of Early Netherlandish painters.
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Giovanni Arnolfini, aprosperous Italian banker

who had settled inBruges, and his wifeGiovanna Cenami, standside by side in the bridalchamber, facing towardsthe viewer. To the left,the oranges placed on thelow table and the

windowsill are a reminderof an original innocence,

of an age before sin.Above the couple's heads,the candle that has beenleft burning in broaddaylight on one of the

branches of an ornatecopper chandelier can beinterpreted as the nuptialflame, or as the eye of God. The small dog in the

foreground is an emblemof fidelity and love.Meanwhile, the marriage

bed with its bright redcurtains evokes thephysical act of love

which, according toChristian doctrine, is an

essential part of the perfect union of man and wife.

Although all these different elements are highly charged with meaning, theyare of secondary importance compared to the mirror, the focal point of the

whole composition. It has often been noted that two tiny figures can be seenreflected in it, their image captured as they cross the threshold of the room.They are the painter himself and a young man, doubtless arriving to act as

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basis, unaware of the laws by which it was governed. ( Basically Eyck is knownfor his precise detail)

No. 5 - Hustler ; Arthur Sarnoff ( 1912 - 2000 )

Sarnoff was an American artist. His portfolioincludes extensive commercial work for weeklymagazines and his art appeared in a variety of advertising campaigns including Karo Syrup,Dextrose, Lucky Strike, Coors, Camay, Sal Hepatica,Listerine, Vicks Vapo Rub, Meds, and Ipana. He alsomade an album cover for the American punk bandButthole Surfers For their third album, Locust

Abortion Technician , which portrays two clowns

playing with a

dog. One of his paintings, "TheHustler", was one of the best-selling prints of the1950s
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His work was whimsical and engaging and relied heavily upon themes of

Americana and

slapstick humour. ( Sarnoff is renowned for this kind of artwork;playful almost )

Part 3 - Stranger than Fiction

No. 1 - Humans of New York - Brandon Stanton ( Emphasis on the Refugee Stories ) ( 1984 -

present)

http://www.humansofnewyork.com/ ( Link for all the stories ; Analyse yourself on the

refugee stories. No explanation needed here. )

No. 2 - Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn ; Ai Weiwei ( 1957 - present )
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http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/78/DevastatingHistory ( Same here ; this link have

everything you need about the art and the artist )

No. 3 - Diary of an Empty City ; Liu Xiaodong ( 1963 - present ) ( Contemporary )

Liu Xiaodong is a painter of modernlife, whose large-scale works serveas a kind of history painting for theemerging world. A leading figureamong the Chinese Neo-Realistpainters to emerge in the 1990s, his

adherence to figurative paintingamounts to a conceptual stance

within a contemporary art contextwhere photographic mediadominate. Society and art, he says,should be like breathing one

breathes in and the other breathesout (2008).
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Liu Xiaodongs exhibition at the Faurschou Foundation Beijingshows a body of work painted live in Mongolia during the

summer of 2015 entitled Diary of An Empty City.Liu Xiaodong

has long been fascinated by the Chinese phenomenon of theghost city frequently portrayed by the western press and

urban planning aficionados, and has chosen a propitiouslocation in Ordos, Inner Mongolia to set his latest scene for live

painting and reflection on the Chinese dream life and dream

city environment.Liu Xiaodong investigates the ideal of thedream life within the context of the reality of the current

Chinese lifestyle, discreetly asking, What is our dream? Aghost city or a crowded city, which is better?

No. 4 - 245 Cubic Meters ; Santiago Sierra ( 1996 - present )


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http://new-art.blogspot.my/2006/04/245-cubic-meters-of-controversy.html( All info in this

link ; a lot of self research for this part, i cant compress everything for you guys here )

No. 5 - The Wait ; Edward Kienholz ( 1927 - 1994 ) ( Funk Art )

An American artist of unwavering originality, critical insight, and

notoriety, Edward Kienholz created powerful work that reflected

upon contemporary social and political issues of late

twentieth-century America. He created life-size three-dimensional

tableaux and immersive environments, composed out of the

discarded detritus he found at yard sales and flea markets.Although he is best known for his contributions to the development

of postwar sculptural practices, Kienholz was also a key promoter

of the Los Angeles avant-garde as the founder of the NOW Gallery

and cofounder of the Ferus Gallery, a pivotal venue and gathering

place for the era's emerging poets and artists. From 1972 onward,

he worked almost exclusively with his fifth wife, the artist Nancy

Reddin Kienholz, who played a significant role in the

conceptualization and fabrication of his later works.
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The Wait illuminates the poignancy of passing time and the sorrowful isolation of the elderly in a life-size

domestic tableau. The figure of an old woman, constructed of cow bones and encased in plastic coating,

clutches a taxidermied cat and sits beneath a framed portrait of a young man who was presumably her

beloved. In place of her face is a glass jar with a photograph of a young, attractive woman on the front

and a cow skull set inside. She wears a necklace of glass canning jars containing crosses and gold

figurines that represent her memories as imagined by the artist: her childhood on a farm and move on to

girlhood, waiting for her man, marriage, bearing children, being loved, wars, family, death and then

senility, where everything becomes a hodgepodge. She awaits her imminent death to the song of a live

parakeet in a nearby cage, a disparity that renders the melancholy of the womans situation all the more

evident.


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No. 6 - Project Dust ; Brother Nut

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/world/asia/beijing-smog-air-pollution-artist-brick.html?

_r=0

( Another link ; all INFO there )

No. 7 - Dismaland ; Bansky ( 1974 - present ) ( Graffiti , Street Art )

Banksy is an England-based graffiti

artist,political activist and film director of unverifiedidentity. His satirical

street art and subversiveepigrams combine dark humour with graffitiexecuted in a distinctive stenciling technique.His works of political and social commentary

have been featured on streets, walls, andbridges of cities throughout the world.

Banksydisplays his art on publicly visible surfaces suchas walls and self-built physical prop pieces.Banksy does not sell photographs orreproductions of his street graffiti, but art
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women at their most beautiful, her mission was to create something truly

unusual. Her portraits highlight distorted faces of women that tend to have

three eyes, peculiar brow lines, and lips that droop, giving an almost absent

chin. With a thread of shiny hair and dramatic lighting, this body of work

almost acts as a portrait series of genuine alien beings. The artist explains the

project in her own words:

In this project Ive been analyzing some fashion portraits, how perfect they

are. So I made the opposite of retouching, somehow I distouched these

pictures of perfect models. This project is connected to surrealist painters

point of view: beauty wasnt enough to give me interest. I love imperfections

as much as I love surrealism. These pictures are my little monsters, no one

wants to look like them, because they are totally unique.

Borsis work uses digital manipulation in order to explore her fascination with

surrealism. She focuses on issues surrounding identity, relationships,

emotions, and dreams with the aim to investigate the complexity of the

human psyche.

Part 4 - (Im)perfect Perspectives

Wabi-sabi | Are there artists active today who embrace elements of wabi-sabi in their

work? Is it a healthy mindset for valuing the world, or an excuse to settle for

imperfection?
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Question 4- Nonfinito works (emphasis on Michelangelo)

http://www.accademia.org/explore-museum/artworks/michelangelos-prisoners-slav

es/ ( all info are in here ) ( only take major points and analyse )

Question 5- Are incomplete works by definition imperfect? Are

"unfinished" and "incomplete" the same thing?

- Incomplete as by definition is not having all the necessary or appropriate parts.

- Imperfect as by definition is not perfect faulty or incomplete. With the

definition of perfect being having all the required or desirable elements, qualities,

or characteristics as good as it is possible to be.

I cant answer this question for you guys as this, again is very subjective and everyone opinion

differs. But my own opinion is that they are not the same thing as incomplete is not finished

and if the artist acknowledges that the artwork is imperfect it can be taken as the artwork is

complete although not perfect

Part 5 - Jailhouse Rocks

No. - How to Make Gravy ; Paul Kelly

( Analyse all the lyrics for this chapter below )

Hello Dan, it's Joe here

I hope you're keeping well

Its the 21st of December now
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theyre ringing the last bell

if I get good behaviour

I'll be out of here by July

Won't you kiss my kids on Christmas day

Pleeeease don't let them cry for me

I guess the brothers are driving down from Queensland and Stella's

flying in from the coast

They say it's gonna be a hundred degrees, even more maybe, but that

won't stop the roast

Who's gonna make the gravy now?

I bet it won't taste the same

Just add flour, salt, a little red wine and don't forget a dollop of

tomato sauce for sweetness and that extra tang

And give my love to Angus and to Frank and Dolly,

Tell 'em all I'm sorry I screwed up this time

And look after Rita, I'll be thinking of her early Christmas morning

When I'm standing in line

I hear Mary's got a new boyfriend, I hope he can hold his own

Do you remember the last one? What was his name again?

(Just a little too much cologne)


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And Roger, you know I'm even gonna miss Roger

'Cause there's sure as hell no one in here I want to fight

Oh praise the Baby Jesus, have a Merry Christmas,

I'm really gonna miss it, all the treasure and the trash

And later in the evening, I can just imagine,

You'll put on Junior Murvin and push the tables back

And you'll dance with Rita, I know you really like her,

Just don't hold her too close, oh brother please don't stab me in the back

I didn't mean to say that, it's just my mind it plays up,

Multiplies each matter, turns imagination into fact

You know I love her badly, she's the one to save me,

I'm gonna make some gravy, I'm gonna taste the fat

Tell her that I'm sorry, yeah I love her badly, tell 'em all I'm sorry,

And kiss the sleepy children for me

You know one of these days, I'll be making gravy,

I'll be making plenty, I'm gonna pay 'em all back.

Analysis : In the song, Paul Kelly adopts the character of Joe, a father who is spending

Christmas in prison, away from his children, sweetheart, family and friends. In the


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song, Joe speaks to his brother Dan and reflects on all the people that he has hurt and

the things that he will miss while he is in jail. He's scared of many things, but he also

wishes that his kids remember him and love him for who he is, not what he did. He also

promises everyone that when he finishes his time, he will be making gravy ( money )and pay em all back (family, friends and everyone he has hurt)

No. 2 - Folsom Prison Blues ; Johnny Cash

I hear the train a comin'

It's rolling round the bend

And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when,

I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on

But that train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone..

When I was just a baby my mama told me. Son,

Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns.

But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die

When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry..

I bet there's rich folks eating in a fancy dining car

They're probably drinkin' coffee and smoking big cigars.

Well I know I had it coming, I know I can't be free


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All the people of the town

Cast their eyes right to the ground

In matters of the heart

The night was all you had

You ran into the night from all you had

Found yourself a path upon the ground

You ran into the night you cant be found

But this is your heart

Can you feel it? Can you feel it?

Pumps through your veins


Summer evening breezes blew

Drawing voices deep from you

Led by your beating heart

What a year and what a night

What terrifying final sights

Put out your beating heart

The night was all you had

You ran into the night from all you had

Found yourself a path upon the ground


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You ran into the night you cant be found

But this is your heart




If you had your gun would you shoot it at the sky?

Why? To see where it would fall

Oh will you come down at all?

If you had your gun would you shoot it at the sky?

Why? To see where your bullet would fall

Oh will you come down at all?

This is your heart




This is your racing heart





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Analysis: Laura Palmer is a fictional character from the television series Twin Peaks, Her death was

the catalyst for the events of the series.Laura (played by Sheryl Lee ) was her town's favorite

daughter she volunteered at Meals on Wheels, was the high school Homecoming queen, and was

(apparently) the darling of her parents, Sarah

and Leland

.However, Laura led a double life she

was a cocaine user, a victim of child abuse and had briefly worked at One-Eyed Jack's ( a

casino/brothel). The discovery of Laura's body in the pilot episode of Twin Peaks brought Special

Agent Dale Cooper to town and the investigation of her death, and the effects it had on those around

her. Laura remained prominent afterward, as her death had exposed many secrets related to

her.Laura's diary was uncovered in the first episode, but her secret diary was not recovered until

later, and it contained passages suggesting that she had long been the victim sometimes willingly

of abuse from a malevolent entity named BOB , who wanted to be close to her, or even be her.

During the second season, the identity of her murderer was her father , Leland, was had been

possessed by BOB and made to molest, rape, and kill his own daughter. When Leland dies in police

custody, it is implied that Laura appears before him in a vision, forgiving him and welcoming him to

the afterlife.

No. 4 - Liberty Needs Glasses ; Tupac Shakur

excuse me but lady liberty needs glasses

and so does mrs justice by her side

both the broads r blind as bats

stumbling thru the system

justice bumbed into mutulu and

trippin on geronimo pratt

but stepped right over oliver

and his crooked partner ronnie
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justice stubbed her big toe on mandela

and liberty was misquoted by the indians

slavery was a learning phase

forgotten with out a verdict

while justice is on a rampage

4 endangered surviving black males

i mean really if anyone really valued life

and cared about the masses

theyd take em both 2 pen optical

and get 2 pair of glasses

Analysis: The whole poem is a metaphor about how the justice system is blind and needs work.

A few good lines are how justice "Tripped on Geronimo Pratt, but stepped right over Oliver and

his partner Ronnie" It basically means that the system lets some crimes go due to race or

wealth/class in society. Another one is "Slavery was a learning phase forgotten without a

verdict" meaning there were no consequences for the whites who used blacks as slaves and we

are supposed to use that time as a learning experience. and the last one would be "I mean

really if anyone really valued life and cared about the masses theyd take em both 2 Pen optical

and get 2 pair of Glasses". That means that people who claim that they care about american

society as a whole they need to stand up and fight. Tupac is stating that both Justice and

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No. 5- Negro Y Azul ; Los Cuates de Sinaloa ( Song originally in Spanish; this is the

English version )

The City's called Duke

And New Mexico, the state.Among the gangsters,His fame has greatly spread

'Cause of a new drugThat the gringos have created.

They say it is colored blueAnd that it's pure in quality,

That powerful drugThat is running through the town

And the owners of the marketCouldn't stop it.

They had the Duke's market,El Tuco and Krazy-8.

They murdered Tuco whilehe was driving his Escalade.A while before the gabachos

finished off Krazy-8.

The cartel's running hot becauseThey were disrespected,

They talk 'bout some "Heisenberg"Who now controls the market.

No one knows a thing about himSince they have never seen him.

The cartel's about respectAnd they have never forgiven.

This homie's already deadHe just hasn't been told so.

Heisenberg's fameHas reached down to Michoacn.

From way over there they want to come,to taste that crystal.

That blue stuff has gone international.

Now New Mexico's name is well suited.Now it looks just like Mexico

'Cause of all the drugs it's hiding,Except there's a gringo boss,as "Heisenberg" he's known.

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They were disrespected,They talk 'bout some "Heisenberg"

Who now controls the market.No one knows a thing about himSince they have never seen him.

From the fury of the cartelNo one has ever escaped.

This homie's already deadHe just hasn't been told so.

Analysis: "Negro Y Azul: The Ballad of Heisenberg" is a Narcocorrido song performed by "Los

Cuates de Sinaloa" that tells the story of a "gringo boss" named "Heisenberg " and his infamous " blue

meth," which has crossed the border into Mexico.

The words "negro y azul" translate to "black and blue", which refer to the colors skin turns when

bruised and the colors of Heisenberg (black) and his product Blue Sky

.

No. 6 - Schindler's List, Main Title Theme ; John Williams

(Listen to the soundtrack ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0oxE2Voq6I)

Analysis: http://auschwitz.dk/Schindler2.htm ( everything about Schindler

and his List to his life can be found here )

Part 6 - On a Pale Piano

No. 1 - The Hurdy-Gurdy Man ; Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIIS-UgixGE

( Listen to this piece

by schubert titled Der Leiermann about the Hurdy-Gurdy

Man)

Below is the English Trans. For the song above ( about the same

meaning )
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The Organ-Grinder ( Der Leiermann )

Up behind the village

The organ-grinder has his pitch

He stands barefoot or shuffles

On the frozen ground

With stiff fingers

He coaxes out the sound

His saucer is empty

Gifts for him are rare

No one listens to him

Or looks at him, or cares

Dogs snarl at him

Dogs chase him

But he wears a smile

He shows no fear or disappointment

But turns the handle round and round

Shall I join you on your journey?

Will you play the music to my songs?

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In July 1947 the 20th-century composer Ernst Krenek discussed

Schubert's style, abashedly admitting that he had at first "shared the

widespread opinion that Schubert was a lucky inventor of pleasingtunes ... lacking the dramatic power and searching intelligence which

distinguished such 'real' masters as J.S. Bach or Beethoven". Krenek

wrote that he reached a completely different assessment after close

study of Schubert's pieces. Krenek pointed to the piano sonatas as

giving "ample evidence that [Schubert] was much more than an

easy-going tunesmith who did not know, and did not care, about the

craft of composition." Each sonata then in print, according to Krenek,

exhibited "a great wealth of technical finesse" and revealed Schubert

as "far from satisfied with pouring his charming ideas into conventional

molds on the contrary he was a thinking artist with a keen appetite for

experimentation." What this means that Schubert is a very expressive player that does not follow the

rules of composition. He is more of a player who chooses to express music or political views in

such a dynamic way that feels right to himself than following the basis of composing a piece of

music.

Analysis: Well as far as i have found, many websites analyse this song as

representing death but one website state that is instead represents life. But i

would like to interpret this song as in neither of them. This song again is very

open for debate so disagreements may be thrown around here and there. Feel free

to state any opinion whether it may either agree or disagree with mine. I feel that

this song was composed as a reflection of Schuberts own life. Schubert was quite

a successful composer in his early years as he slowly was recognised by his fellow

musicians. As i have said before, Schubert's style of music is very strange

as he

follows no path and only composes what he feels is right. Because of this, many

music publishers of that time failed to recognise Schubert and left him in a bad

financial situation and later historians believed that he contracted syphilis later in

his life. Yet Schubert still continued composing throughout the dull days of his life
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and came up with many compositions we know of today such as "Wanderer

Fantasy" for piano and the two-movement "Eighth Symphony," However none of

this brought him the fame or fortune Schubert had hope for but he still composed

many of the pieces we know of today even when battling his health problems and

at one time he was broke but still he continued composing. Even as his financial

situations began to improve in Schuberts final years, he was never truly was

accepted by his music until his death. How would this relate to Der Leiermann you

say? Well first we have the whole poem centralized on theorgan-grinderwhich

we could relate as it being Schubert.With stiff fingers He coaxes out the sound,

His saucer is empty, Gifts for him are rare No one listens to him, Or looks at him,

or caresThis we can relate to Schuberts point of life where people didnt accept

his kind of music as being free you can say, not following any guidelines and

this we can also relate on Schuberts way of saying how he is trying his best to

produce music after music only to be ignored by the rest of society. Dogs snarl at

him

Dogs chase him, But he wears a smile ,He shows no fear or disappointment , But

turns the handle round and round This can be Schuberts way of saying how

society around him failed to acknowledge his taste in music and despised him for

that as again Schubert has no structure or straight direction when composing as

again, Schubert composed music based on his own desire.

He shows no fear or disappointment,But turns the handle round and round,

Shall I join you on your journey? Will you play the music to my songs?This last

stanza can be interpreted as how Schubert persevere against the harsh criticism of

society and continue composing the way he did. The last beat of the poem, in my

opinion, is the composers plead to the reader on whether they would finally

accept him and his music.

No.2 - 15th Symphony, 1st Movement ; Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ci5dHIIIkc ( The original Piece )

Analysis here:

http://www.culturecatch.com/music/shostakovich_symphony15 (

Another link yes, This time a more darker view than to what many people

think that this song is about toys coming to life in Shostakovichs

viewpoint )

No. 3 - Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM

( Song Here )

The composition is based upon a poem by Henri Cazalis, on an old

French superstition: Zig, zig, zig, Death in a cadence, Striking with his

heel a tomb, Death at midnight plays a dance-tune, Zig, zig, zig, on his

violin. The winter wind blows and the night is dark; Moans are heard in

the linden trees. Through the gloom, white skeletons pass, Running and

leaping in their shrouds. Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking, The bones of
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the dancers are heard to crack But hist! of a sudden they quit the round, They push forward, they fly; the

cock has crowed.

According to the ancient superstition, "Death" appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death has the

power to call forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (represented by a

solo violin with its E-string tuned to an E-flat in an example of scordatura tuning). His skeletons dance for

him until the first break of dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.

The piece opens with a harp playing a single note, D, twelve times to signify the clock striking midnight,

accompanied by soft chords from the string section. This then leads to the eerie E flat and A chords (also

known as a tritone or the "Devil's chord") played by a solo violin, representing death on his fiddle. After which

the main theme is heard on a solo flute and is followed by a descending scale on the solo violin. The rest of

the orchestra, particularly the lower instruments of the string section, then joins in on the descending scale.

The main theme and the scale is then heard throughout the various sections of the orchestra until it breaks

to the solo violin and the harp playing the scale. The piece becomes more energetic and climaxes at this

point; the full orchestra playing with strong dynamics.Towards the end of the piece, there is another violin

solo, now modulating, which is then joined by the rest of the orchestra. The final section, a pianissimo,

represents the dawn breaking and the skeletons returning to their graves.

The piece makes particular use of the xylophone in a particular theme to imitate the sounds of rattling

bones. Saint-Sans uses a similar motif in the Fossils part of his Carnival of the Animals.

No. 4 - 4th Symphony, 2nd Movement ; Gustav Mahler ( 1860-1911 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86BBMrlUfc

(Song Above)

The Symphony No. 4 in G major by Gustav Mahler

was written in 1899 and 1900, though it

incorporates a song originally written in 1892. The
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song, "Das himmlische Leben", presents a child's vision of Heaven. It is sung by a

soprano in the work's fourth and last movement. Although typically described as

being in the key of G major, the symphony employs a progressive tonal scheme.

The second movement, one of Mahler's Lndler1movements, is a Scherzo in C

minor, with two F major Trios. The first crack has appeared in the illusion we

would expect a slow movement followed by a Scherzo, but here Mahler has

reversed the expected order of the middle movements. The leader of the orchestra

is required to play on a violin tuned two semi-tones higher than normal, to

produce a thin, ghostly sound. This represents Death playing a dance to lead us to,

where to Heaven or to Hell?

No. 5 - Totentanz ; Franz Liszt ( 1811-1886 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nVmFlSV1ok

( song here )

Liszt was inspired by religion, heaven, hell,

and death for much of his artistic life.

A lot of his pieces describe aspects of

death, or meditate on doom.

Whilst in he lived in Paris Liszt visited

gallows to observe men condemned to die.

These grim expeditions shaped his world

view and his musical values.

Liszt started sketching out the piece in the

1830s. In 1839 he went to Pisa in Italy,

and saw a fresco: The Triumph of Death.

The fourteenth-century painting vividly

illustrates the fates of those in heaven and

hell. Liszt was highly moved by it
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But it wasn't until 1849 that he finally created a finished version. Still, it took took

more revisions of the piece before the final version was completed (in 1859) - but

even then it took another 6 years to finally get performed!

The devilish piece features pure Lisztian moments of intense, storm-like fury:

As well as light-hearted, even beautiful passages:

The Dies Irae theme originally came from the Mass for the Dead. It's connected

with the day of the final judgement, when humanity perishes.

The Dance of Death is actually extremely well-constructed. It features six variations

of the Dies Irae melody, each polished and innovative. Balancing the fiery and

heavenly, Liszt masterfully controls the orchestra, bringing it into crashing waves of

blood-red fury.

The piano part is rough, almost violent in certain sections. For its day this was

extremely modern. Liszt also blends in Medieval counterpoint into the score, whilst

still maintaining the piece's modern symphonic sound.

Liszt doesn't just create a cut-and-dry representation of dark and light. There are

also a lot of thoughtful gray areas, all weaved into the grander fabric of the

concerto.

Part 7 - A World Of Tears

No.1 Stink Foot ; Frank Zappa

In the dark

Where all the fevers grow

Under the water

Where the shark bubbles blow

In the mornin'


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By yer radio

Do the walls close in t' suffocate ya

You ain't got no friends . . .

An' all the others: they hate ya

Does the life you been livin' gotta go, hmmm?

Well, lemme straighten you out

About a place I know . . .

(Get yer shoes 'n socks on people,

It's right aroun' the corner!)

Out through the night

An' the whispering breezes

To the place where they keep

The Imaginary Diseases,

Out through the night

An' the whispering breezes

To the place where they keep

The Imaginary Diseases, mmm . . .

This has to be the disease for you

Now scientists call this disease

Bromidrosis

But us regular folks

Who might wear tennis shoes

Or an occasional python boot

Know this exquisite little inconvenience

By the name of:

STINK FOOT


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THE POODLE BY-EE-ITES

( . . . BITES)

THE POODLE CHEWS IT

(POO-DLE . . . )


( . . . BITES)

THE POODLE CHEWS IT

(POO-DLE . . . )


( . . . BITES)

THE POODLE CHEWS IT


THE POODLE CHEWS IT


THE POODLE CHEWS IT


Analysis:The song, Stink-Foot, is a difficult one to discern the exact meaning of,

but the literal structure involves an outcast being taken to a place where they

keep the imaginary diseasesand sold what the song describes as a very serious

case of foot odour. This song also illustrates a number of musical principles that

just about every musician or pseudo-musician is told about but very few actually

put into practice. The most important of which is the importance of the element of

surprise.

No. 2 - Industrial Disease ; Dire Straits

Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control

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There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town

Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down

There's a meeting in the boardroom they're trying to trace the smell

There's leaking in the washroom there's a sneak in personnel

Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze

'goodness me could this be Industrial Disease?

The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post

They're refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most

The watchdog's got rabies the foreman's got fleas

And everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease

There's panic on the switchboard tongues are ties in knots

Some come out in sympathy some come out in spots

Some blame the management some the employees

And everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease

The work force is disgusted downs tools and walks

Innocence is injured experience just talks

Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees

That these are 'classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze'

On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse

Philosophy is useless theology is worse

History boils over there's an economics freeze

Sociologists invent words that mean 'Industrial Disease'

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You've got smokers cough from smoking, brewer's droop from drinking beer

I don't know how you came to get the Betty Davis knees

But worst of all young man you've got Industrial Disease'

He wrote me a prescription he said 'you are depressed

But I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest

Come back and see me later - next patient please

Send in another victim of Industrial Disease'

I go down to Speaker's Corner I'm thunderstruck

They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks

Two men say they're Jesus one of them must be wrong

There's a protest singer singing a protest song - he says

'they wanna have a war to keep us on our knees

They wanna have a war to keep their factories

They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese

They wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease

They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind

They wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind

They give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three

Two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease'

Meanwhile the first Jesus says 'I'd cure it soon

Abolish monday mornings and friday afternoons'

The other one's on a hunger strike he's dying by degrees

How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease

Analysis: The song takes a look at decline of the British manufacturing

industry in the early 1980s, focusing on strikes, depression and
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dysfunctionality. For example, the absurdity of media-driven maladies is laid

out in a segment of the song describing the narrator's visit to a doctor's

office for treatment of his "Industrial Disease".

The reference to "Brewer's Droop" as a medical condition is an in-joke,referring both to the effect of alcohol on libido and to the band of the same

name that Mark Knopfler played in prior to Dire Straits .

No.3 - Another Day in Paradise ; Phil Collins

She calls out to the man on the street

"Sir, can you help me?

It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep

Is there somewhere you can tell me?"

He walks on, doesn't look back

He pretends he can't hear her

Starts to whistle as he crosses the street

Seems embarrassed to be there

Oh think twice, cause it's another day for

You and me in paradise

Oh think twice, cause it's another day for you

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Just think about it

She calls out to the man on the street

He can see she's been crying

She's got blisters on the soles of her feet

She can't walk but she's trying



Oh think twice, it's just another day for you


Just think about it

Oh lord, is there nothing more anybody can do

Oh lord, there must be something you can say

You can tell from the lines on her face

You can see that she's been there

Probably been moved on from every place

'Cos she didn't fit in there



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Oh think twice, it's just another day for you


Just think about it

Just think about it

It's just another day for you and me in paradise



Just think about it

Analysis:"Another Day in Paradise" is a protest song recorded by

English

drummer and singer Phil Collins. Collins sings the song from athird-person perspective, observing as a man crosses the street to ignore a

homeless woman, and he implores listeners not to turn a blind eye to

homelessness because, by drawing a religious allusion, "it's just another day

for you and me in paradise ". Collins also appeals directly to God by singing:

"Oh Lord, is there nothing more anybody can do? Oh Lord, there must be

something you can say?" It is a song calling for acknowledgment and

acceptance to the homeless in society

No.4 - The Way It Is ; Bruce Hornsby and The Range

Standing in line, marking time
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Well, they passed a law in '64

To give those who ain't got a little more

But it only goes so far

'Cause the law don't change another's mind

When all it sees at the hiring time

Is the line on the color bar, no

That's just the way it is

Some things will never change

That's just the way it is

That's just the way it is, it is, it is, it is

Analysis: The song portrays 1980s America from a critical perspective. The opening verse

recounts a story taking place at a line for welfare that illustrate a divide between the rich and poor.

The chorus presents several lines insisting that social ills are "just the way it is", and repeatedly

suggests resigning oneself to them as a fact of lifehowever, the chorus ends with the author

rebuking this attitude by insisting "but don't you believe them."

The second verse recounts past social issues from the voice of someone supporting racial

segregation. The author responds in a narrative voice, insisting his view that if those who make laws

took them into careful consideration they would be convinced that laws enforcing principles like

racial segregation are morally wrong. The song reminds the listener that it was at one time argued

that racial segregation was "just the way it is", and suggests that legislation and what the author

views as progress on current social issues should be pursued without regard to those who insist

"some things will never change."

The third verse recounts the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a victory in the civil rights

movement, but insists that more is needed. In particular, the verse highlights individual prejudice and
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employment discrimination as an enduring form of racism. The third chorus suggests that it only

feels like "some things will never change" when we wait for social problems to change themselves

rather than taking steps ourselves to actively change them.

No. 5 - City of The Damned ; Green Day

At the center of the earth

In the parking lot

Of the 7-11 were I was taught

The motto was just a lie

It says home is where your heart is

But what a shame

'Cause everyone's heart doesn't beat the same

It's beating out of time

City of the dead

At the end of another lost highway

Signs misleading to nowhere

City of the damned

Lost children with dirty faces today

No one really seems to care

I read the graffiti in the bathroom stall

Like the holy scriptures of the shopping mall

And so it seemed to confess

It didn't say much but it only confirmed


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That the center of the earth is the end of the world

And I could really care less

City of the dead

At the end of another lost highway

Signs misleading to nowhere

City of the damned

Lost children with dirty faces today

No one really seems to care, hey

Analysis: The whole is song is about how people are very selfish these days. Not caring

about anyone else but themselves. The motto says "Home is where your heart is", but it doesn't

mean that this works for everyone; some people just don't fit in. Green Day points out that

people don't really care about anyone but themselves these days ("Lost children with dirty faces

today no one really seems to care"), and surrounded by this indifference he states that now he

doesn't care either. Not caring more like.

No. 6 - Papaoutai ; Stromae (Translated to English)

Dites-moi do il vient

Tell me where he comes from

Enfin je saurais o je vais

Then I would know where Im going

Maman dit que lorsquon cherche bien

Mommy says when you look hard enough

On finit toujours par trouver

Youll always end up finding it


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Elle dit quil nest jamais trs loin

She says hes never very far away

Quil part trs souvent travailler

He often leaves to go work

Maman dit travailler cest bien

Mommy says working is good

Bien mieux qutre mal accompagn, pas vrai ?

Better to be there than in bad company, right?

O est ton papa ?

Where is your dad?

Dis-moi o est ton papa

Tell me where is your dad?

Sans mme devoir lui parler

Without even having to talk to him

Il sait ce qui ne va pas

He knows its not going well

Ah sacr papa

Oh my dear father

Dis-moi o es-tu cach ?

Tell me where are you hiding?

Ca doit faire au moins mille fois que jai compt mes doigts

I mustve counted my fingers at least a thousand times

O tes papa o tes ?

Where are you dad, where are you?

O tes papa o tes ?


O tes papa o tes ?


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O tes o tes o papa, o tes ?

Where are you, where are you, where are you dad, where are you?

O tes papa o tes ?


O tes papa o tes ?


O tes papa o tes ?




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Quoi ? Quon y croie ou pas

What? Whether you believe or not

Y aura bien un jour o on y croira plus

There will be a day when we no longer believe

Un jour ou lautre on sera tous papa

On day or another well all be fathers

Et dun jour lautre on aura disparu

And one day or another well all disappear

Serons-nous dtestables ?

Will we be hated?

Serons-nous admirables ?

Will we be loved?

Des gniteurs ou des gnies

Natural fathers or geniuses

Dites-nous qui donne naissance aux irresponsables


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Tell us who gives birth to irresponsible [fathers]

Hein ? Dites-nous qui, tiens

Hey? Tell us who huh?

Tout le monde sait comment on fait des bbs

Everybody knows how to make babies

Mais personne sait comment on fait des papas

But nobody knows how to make dads

Monsieur jsais tout en aurait hrit, cest a ?

Mister know-it-all wouldve inherited it, is that it?

Faut lsucer de son pouce, ou quoi

Does it come from sucking our thumbs, or what

Dites-nous o cest cach, a doit, faire au moins mille fois quon a bouff nos doigts

Tell us where its hidden, we mustve eaten our fingers at least a thousand times

O tes papa o tes ?


O tes papa o tes ?


O tes papa o tes ?




O tes papa o tes ?


O tes papa o tes ?


O tes papa o tes ?



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O est ton papa ?

Where is your dad?







Ah sacr papa

Oh my dear father





O est ton papa ?

Where is your dad?







Ah sacr papa

Oh my dear father



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O tes papa o tes ?


O tes papa o tes ?


O tes papa o tes ?




O tes papa o tes ?


O tes papa o tes ?


O tes papa o tes ?




Analysis: "Papaoutai" meaning "Dad, where are you?" is a song written and performed by

Belgian musician Stromae . The video shows a young boy trying to interact with his unresponsive

father (played by Stromae), who sits motionless, his expression and body resembling that of a

mannequin, while outside, other parents and children dance together. In the end, the son joins

Stromae on the sofa, assuming a rigid, lifeless position identical to his father's. It refers to the

absence of Stromae's father, who was killed in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.In the video, the boy's

father is represented as a lifeless mannequin, so he is present physically, but not emotionally. As the

boy looks outside, he sees that the other parents always do something together with their children,

while his remains motionless. The boy reproaches his father with the words of the song about how a
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parent should raise their son, and the boy then works to involve his father in dancing, like the

parent-child couples he had seen before. First, the boy dances at home in front of the father then,

both of them are seen dancing in the square, but that vision is actually just an imagination of the boy,

who in reality is dancing alone while his father stays motionless in the car. In the end, the boy

surrenders and also becomes an empty mannequin like his father, as that is the only thing his father

has taught him. Dark...

No. 7 - Sunday Bloody Sunday ; U2

Yes...

I can't believe the news today

Oh, I can't close my eyes

And make it go away

How long...

How long must we sing this song

How long, how long...

'cause tonight...we can be as one

Tonight...

Broken bottles under children's feet

Bodies strewn across the dead end street

But I won't heed the battle call

It puts my back up

Puts my back up against the wall

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Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes

(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

And it's true we are immune

When fact is fiction and TV reality

And today the millions cry

We eat and drink while tomorrow they die

(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

The real battle just begun

To claim the victory Jesus won

On...

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday...

Analysis: One of U2's most overtly political songs, its lyrics describe the horror

felt by an observer of the Troubles in Northern Ireland , mainly focusing on the

Bloody Sunday incident in Derry where British troops shot and killed unarmed

civil rights protesters and bystanders who were there to rally against internment

(imprisonment without trial), while at the same time rejecting hate and revenge

as a response noted in the lyrics, "There's many lost, but tell me who has won."
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Bloody Sunday: Bloody Sunday sometimes called the Bogside Massacre was an

incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry,Northern Ireland. British

soldiers

shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march against internment. Fourteen

people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months

later was attributed to his injuries. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the

soldiers and some were shot while trying to help the wounded. Other protesters were

injured by rubber bullets or batons, and two were run down by army vehicles. The march

had been organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association and the Northern

Resistance Movement

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No. 7 - Jenny was A Friend Of Mine ; The Killers

We took a walk that night but it wasn't the same

We had a fight on the promenade out in the rain

She said she loved me but she had somewhere to go

She couldn't scream while I held her close

I swore I'd never let her go

Tell me what you wanna know

Oh come on, oh come on, oh come on

There ain't no motive for this crime

Jenny was a friend of mine

So come on, oh come on, oh come on

I know my rights, I've been here all day and it's time

For me to go so let me know if it's alright

I just can't take this, I swear I told you the truth

She couldn't scream while I held her close

I swore I'd never let her go

Tell me what you wanna know


And then you whisper in my ear

I know what you're doing here
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So come on, oh come on, oh come on

There ain't no motive for this crime

Jenny was a friend of mine


Analysis: The song, which is written in the key of E-flat minor, is told fromthe point of view of a boy who has been taken in for questioning about a girl's(Jenny) murder. After explaining the incident from his perspective, the boy (voiced

by Flowers), claims that he is innocent by saying that "there ain't no motive forthis crime, Jenny was a friend of mine." The song has no resolution of the crimeand it is never clarified if the boy was guilty.

It is a part of The Killers' alleged "Murder Trilogy", three songs detailing the

murder of a girl named Jenny.

No. 8 - I Feel Pretty/ Unpretty ; Glee Cast Recording

I wish I could tie you up in my shoes

Make you feel unpretty too

I was told I was beautiful

But what does that mean to you

Look into the mirror who's inside there

The one with the long hair

Same old me again today

My outsides are cool

My insides are blue

Everytime I think I'm through

It's because of you
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I've tried different ways

But it's all the same

At the end of the day

I have myself to blame

I'm just trippin'

You can buy your hair if it won't grow

You can fix your nose if he says so

You can buy all the make-up that M.A.C. can make

But if you can't look inside you

Find out who am I to

Be in a position to make me feel so damn unpretty

I feel pretty

Oh so pretty

I feel pretty and witty and bright

Never insecure until I met you

Now I'm being stupid

I used to be so acute to me

Just a little bit skinny

Why do I look to all these things

To keep you happy

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And then I'll get back to me (hey)

My outsides look cool

My insides are blue

Everytime I think I'm through

It's because of you

I've tried different ways

But it's all the same

At the end of the day

I have myself to blame

Keep on trippin'

You can buy your hair if it won't grow

You can fix your nose if he says so

You can buy all the make-up that M.A.C. can make




I feel pretty

Oh so pretty

I feel pretty and witty and bright

And I pity

Any girl who isn't me tonight


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Oh oh oh oh oh (Tonight)

Oh oh oh oh oh


Oh oh oh oh oh


Oh oh oh oh oh

I feel pretty (You can buy your hair if it won't grow)

Oh so pretty (You can fix your nose if he says so)

I feel pretty and witty and bright (You can buy all the make-up that M.A.C. can

make)




I feel pretty

But unpretty

Analysis: Basically Insecurity about Oneself thanksto the viewers boy / friend i think.

No. 10 - Will I ; Rent

Will I lose my dignity?

Will someone care?


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Will I wake tomorrow

From this nightmare?


Will someone care?




Will someone care?




Will someone care?



Analysis:This song is so deep, even with its simplicity, because it reflects on the

thoughts that run through the minds of people who have to live with the stigma of being

different, or (especially) sick. The song is actually based off of something that Jonathan Larson

heard at an AIDS meeting that he went to with his best friend cause his best friend has AIDS. A

guy stood up and said, "I'm not afraid to die, and I'm not afraid to leave everyone behind, but I

am afraid of losing my dignity." And he turned it into this beautiful song. According to some

hardcore Rent fans.

PARTE FINALE: It Gets Better

No.1 - Light (From Next to Normal) ; Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey

Natalie:

We need some light.


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First of all, we need some light.

You can't sit here in the dark.

And all alone, it's a sorry sight.

It's just you and me.

We'll live, you'll see.

Dan:

Night after night,

We'd sit and wait for the morning light.

But we've waited far too long,

For all that's wrong to be made right.

Diana:

Day after day,

Wishing all our cares away.

Trying to fight the things we feel,

But some hurts never heal.

Some ghost are never gone,

But we go on,

We still go on.

And you find some way to survive

And you find out you don't have to be happy at all,

To be happy you're alive.

Natalie:

Day after day,Give me clouds, and rain and gray.

Give me pain, if that's what's real.

Henry and Natalie:

It's the price we pay to feel.


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Dan and Natalie:

There will be light.

Diana:

(There will be light.

There will be light.)

All:


When we open up our light.

Sons and daughters, husbands, wives.Can fight that fight.





Analysis: Next to Normal is a rock musical with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by

Tom Kitt. Its story concerns a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effect

that her illness and the attempts to alleviate it have on her family. The musical also addresses such

issues as grieving a loss, suicide , drug abuse, ethics in modern psychiatry , and the underbelly of

suburban life. This song is, in my opinion regarding to the mothers bipolar disorder as there are

constant reference to the dark or night and the repeated there will be light which may tell us about

the diametrically opposite feelings the mother is feeling.

No. 2 - Epilogue (From Les Miserables) ; Alain Boublil andClaude-Michel Schonberg
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