Here in the Real World
In today’s society the music industry bombards the public with songs containing various subject matter. Each song pertains to a different subject and each song has numerous meanings. All though every song means something diverse, we generalize and assume every style of music has to do with certain subjects. When we think of rap, we assume the song will have something to do with sex, drugs, gangs, and/or violence. When we think of country music, we automatically assume the song will have something to do with broken relationships, pick-up trucks, cowboys, beer and/or dogs. Even though this is the case some of the time, it is not the case all of the time. In country artist Alan Jackson’s song, “Here in the Real World,” the issue of lost and broken love is discussed, but it goes further into the idea of love and how Hollywood and broadcasting portray the way relationships should be. In the first two lines of Jackson’s song, he states some of the greatest assumptions of country music listeners everywhere, “Cowboys don’t cry, and heroes don’t die/Good always wins, again and again.” (lines 1-2) In today’s media, the general idea is cowboys are tough and show no emotion, heroes live on and are
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Approximate Word count = 933
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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