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Nile Ward song analysis
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Inner City Blues
(Make me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye
Song Analysis
By: Nile Ward
WHAT EMOTIONAL RESPONSE IS EVOKED?
WHAT IS THE ACTUAL MESSAGE?
WHAT IS THE MESSAGE?
This song's emotional response is sorrow because of how poverty affected poor communities. It makes the listener want to take action in doing something about it.
The message of "Inner City Blues" is how the economics of this time lead to poverty and rising crime, and how this caused many people living in these conditions to become powerless. Because of this, jobs were hard to get for people living in poverty. And the US didn't do much to prevent it. Substantial jobs no longer existed in the US; those jobs moved to other places outside the US.
The actual message of this song is how crime caused an increase in poverty, especially in suburban areas. Poverty is also linked to economic limits, such as bad schools and no opportunity for people in poor communities. Jobs that paid well were harder to find because they were moved outside the US. Many industrial areas became abandoned because of businesses moving overseas.
WHAT IS THE SONG ABOUT?
This song talks about many of the problems in the United States (in the early 1970s). The main subject that is talked about is poverty in poor communities.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
This song has some sensory diction, such as when the artist sings "Make me wanna holler," I can hear someone hollering because of the economic troubles and poverty. There is also alliteration and assonance in the beginning of the song since there is repetition of vowel and initial letters.
IS THE MESSAGE RELEVANT TODAY?
WHAT LINES CAN I RELATE TO?
AN ALTERNATE TITLE?
Yes. Today, there is lots of crime, many businesses moving overseas, poverty, and more. This song talks about this same thing in 1971 -- 44 years ago.
A line that I can relate to is "Crime is increasing" because in this time, crime is increasing.
This also means that this song's meaning is still very true today.
"Right Here, Right Now" because these problems are happening here, in our home country, now.