Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Chosen Song Lyric Annotation

Lyric Annotation

As we have chosen our song that we want to do for our music video i took the opportunity to read through the lyrics of the "Determination" song and i have started to annotate it in order to understand what he is talking about in each one of Dot Rotten's verses.
In the link of the song which is the beginning before the first verse comes in he says " Knock me down and i get back up, push me down and i get back up". Him saying this means that every time he gets knocked down he always bounces back up. He shows determination even though he gets put down.

As the first verse comes in he talks about how hard his life was not easy before when he was trying to make it into the music business. He talks about how he got to doing concerts but before that he started at sets which was when he was trying to come up he was doing small shows. He also thinks back to when he got into gang related activities like holding guns and being surrounded by gang members trying to get money. But in the link he says "I was on a bad path but i changed it good things come to those who have patience" this tells us that he moved away from all of that and focused on his music and was patient.

The hook says "Determination. I keep going, i just keep going" telling us that he keeps on going on with his life despite everything that happened.

In the second verse, he says "And i couldn't care less about all these haters, couldn't care less about being famous, all I'm on is family, business and papers." He says he doesn't care about everyone that doesn't like him and all the fame that comes with being a rapper and all he really cares about is his family, the money he earns and his business. He tells us that his girlfriend was also unfaithful to him and his life felt like it was falling apart because of all the bad things happening but he put aside all the negativity and tried his best to focus on his music career.


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