Analysis Of Song

Inflowential-Changes

Good luck ya'll,

God bless you

Even if we don't keep in touch

I'm glad I met you                                                                                 

Good luck ya'll

God bless you

Even if things change

I won't forget you

God luck ya'll

God bless you

Even if we don't keep in touch

I'm glad I met you

God bless you

Even if things change

I won't forget you

This is the chorus of the song and in this song it starts the song off instead of being after a verse. Although the chorus does come after the verses in this song I still believe that this technique was very creative. The artist who is singing the chorus is singing about a girl that he met and he is trying to say that even if things change such as separation being caused, he will still be glad that he met her and that he'll never forget her.

Tab Ones Verse:

You never hear a song the same way more than once,

you might not feel the same today as last month,

cuz surroundings change & acquaintances fade,

some grow brighter so we turn another page,

to another chapter of love & laughter,

tears, pain, sun & rain but we have to

keep on pressin even though we're all stressin

with few answers, and millions of questions,

it's so strange how things rearrange

some people I know, man they don't act the same

some are graduating & they're goin away

& then some are just workin cuz they got bills to pay

man, each day's different, no matter how you're livin

regardless of intentions or your interests, it's a given

you can't dodge change cuz change is relentless & endless

This is the first verse of the song and 'Tab One' raps to it. In this verse, the rapper is trying to say that as time flies by, people change and this is shown when he raps 'you might not feel the same today as last month'. This shows that as the time changes, the 'surroundings' and 'acquaintances' change with it and he is trying to show that for some people the time going by results in a happier way but for the others it is 'tears, pain, sun & rain'. He is addressing this to girl as he is rapping that you must 'keep on pressin' even when everyone is still 'stressin'. This verse is also to show that you can't avoid change as it is 'relentless & endless'

Charlie verse:

Then I fell in love with you

Then I fell in love with you

Then I fell in love with you

Then I fell in love with you

Shari, don't get lost in Boston

And I will see you, I don't care how much its costing 

And by the way,

Congratulations on your graduation

Since you've left its like I had an amputation

And your the missing piece of the puzzle

My message was all bottled up

So I took off the muzzle 

Swallowed my pride, guzzled it down

The letter I wrote it

Found out, you're the reason I'm a poet, so I focused

My confessions on each rap session

Use the pen and try to teach myself a lesson but you're gone

I reach and touch you, over the phone

I can't feel you as much

I'm not near to you 

Look in my rearview mirror

Its filled with regret

Its just pitiful, I'm willing to bet

Shit I didn't do, could've lead to great heights

And if these thoughts that I'm thinking yo, they ain't right

I would rather you fight me

Not taking it lightly

Cause it might be, 

the best decision in my life

I never gave up 

Got my mind made up

I wasted time once

So tonight, I'm taking a flight 

And that's that

I believe the rapper Charlie is talking about a loved one in this verse called Shari. We hear that Shari has to another city away from Charlie and he vows that he plans on seeing Shari no matter what happens and that he doesn't care how money he has to spend on making that happen. He admits that he feels very sad after his loved one left as he raps that it felt like an 'amputation'. The main thing about this verse is that he is meaning to say that his loved one is the reason why he has become a rapper

Tab-One's last verse:

well I'm livin but I'm in prison of reminiscing

because these times get tougher as my life keeps twistin

& things change position like friends, home, & women

while i'm swimmin in a vision of a simpler time

a feelin I could never fully express in rhyme

even if I tried, guarantee there's not enough lines

that could illustrate thoughts I generate in my mind

like the sun never sets the same way more than once

you might not feel the same today as last month

cuz friends turn strange, some move away

some pass through it's hard to tell if they'll stay

in your memory but you know the ones that will

because their energy gave you a vibe so real

that it touched you, gripped you, equipped you with love

you know they got your back if push comes to shove

but as age gets added to the page of my book

people round my way don't look the same as they looked

different situations got communication shook

if you lose touch, forced to reel in your hook &

let em go like the breeze that blows 

cuz we're all really travelin on our own road

the company we keep just helps to bear the load

man, each days different, no matter how you're livin

regardless of intentions or your interests it's a given

you can't dodge change cuz change is relentless & endless

This is the last verse of the song and it returns to Tab One to rap again. It shows that he keeps reminiscing about 'friends, home & women' and it feels like he's in prison. He concludes the fact that people change as he says 'cuz friends turn strange, some move away' this shows that some of his past friends may have changed and that they repelled away from him. He even raps that people are independent in their own way everyone is 'travellin on our own road' this shows that he believes that even if time and people change, the people should stay independent and do their own thing. He raps up his last verse with the same line he ended it with in his first verse.

Target audience:

Age group: 15-25

Gender: Unisex, this is because the song is about changes and the song didn't at any point mean that it was referring to either a boy or a girl so it could be to any gender.

Interests: music, love, relationships, changes

Ethnicity: any

Location: worldwide

Music:

The music that is used is clearly set for rap as it doesn't contain guitars, special effect sounds as you would normally expect to hear in the music genres such as rock, pop. You do hear some parts using a drums and it's a good effect to add into it as it shows that the group is trying to put a variety of music tones into the song. The tone of the song pretty much stays the same throughout the whole song as they try to keep a fixed tone. This is because they same loop is used throughout.

Tempo:

The tempo of the song is relatively slower than normal rap songs which you wouldn't really expect to find in as rap songs normally contain fast paced rapping and quite fast music. The slow tempo goes with the feeling that the song is trying to show, as it is about quite a sad matter on how people and time changes, the music tempo is also quite slow to suggest that it is a slow process but it happens

This song goes quite against that convention as it tends to be quite a slow song. This is a good effect that the group has added as it shows that they have tried to be different to other artists and their music.

How I would communicate the song: 

I chose this song as I thought it had a perfect song with the lyrics being very well written to make sure they prove that they are going with the title of the song. As the song is about changes, I would make sure that in the music video, it communicates as showing things change such as time. As the song is also about relationships, I would like to show a relationship in the video and how it could be broken in terms of changes. It could use imagery in some parts such as when Tab One is reminiscing about times, friends, family and women. It would use illustrate styles such as when he is thinking about friends, family and women the video will show each of them appear at the same time as he is saying the lyrics.