As you already know, I love music. I love any type of music and when we were talking about the lyrical essay all I could think about was how much it sounded like a sort of song. I love lyrics when it comes to music and it seemed like a lyrical essay focuses a lot on word order and form and certain words that you choose. It reminded me of a song that I know by the group Atmosphere called “Scape Goat”. The song is basically just a list of different words and excuses that people use when things don’t go their way. It is very poetic in the word order and Slug does an amazing job coming up with different ideas and topics that people like to blame things on. In the chorus he goes “On and On and On and On, The list goes, On and On and On and On” and I think that is a cool way to show that people like to blame anything on someone else. Here is the song:
After each verse Slug also says "It Ain't Me, Nawh it Ain't Me". I just think this is an awesome way of using lyrics and words in a different way to get a point across and I think that is the major idea of a Lyrical Essay. Word order and structure are such a key componant of what makes good writing great and I think Slug does a wonderful job at showing this.
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