This song is 21
Guns from 21st Century Break Down Album by Green Day, Green Day is the
American band with three members since 1987. Their current members are Billie Joe
Armstrong - lead vocals, Mike Dirnt - bass, Tre Cool - drums. This song 21 Guns is important
because our world is always have the wars (maybe just little or big
wars... anything that hurt each other I call war), everyone is fighting each other, they want to be higher than other people,
and want to be number one. The messages from this song are want people to stop
fight each other and stop harm each other, united, be together, help each
other, and peaceful. However, this song is showing about American ideology that they do not waste the times
on things that mean nothing, sometime you might want to give up, lost
your control, and hopeless. But you have to continue your life and do
thing that is right to you and other people.
The name of this song is a 21-Gun salute, which is a military symbol for the end. Basicly, this song is talking about why we have to kill each other, even though it doesn’t benefit for each other. What’s worth dying for? Just stop fighting and unite all together.
The beginning of the song "Do you know what's worth fighting for, when it's not worth dying for?" it means that why do we have to waste time on the thing that doesn't help much? but it also can be mean that why do we have to fighting for, eventhough it doesn't resolve the problem. "One, 21 guns, throw up your arms into the sky, you and I" means stop doing meanless things. Or it can be mean that stop the fight with both sides. "Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone." it means that like the person who did bad things trying to finding the forgiveness from the grave, that no one will respond them. "When it's time to live and let die and you can't get another try. Something inside this heart has died. You're in ruins" means that if you don't do what you need to do and you lost that oppotunity, then you might want to give up.
3 comments:
I agree with your analysis about thre is no real reason to be in a war. I also agree with your dominant ideology that america wants to be number 1
This couldn't be a more perfect song to analyze because green day has always gone against and also sided with many of Americas ideologies such as freedom and in this case the ideology of "why there has to be war?" I completely agree with your analysis of this song. Bravo.
I must say your analysis is good but i disagree with the songs message. We have every right to be at war with the middle east and I feel so passionately about this that I am enlisting in the Marines following graduation from high school. Americas ideology is to strive to be number one but let me ask you what country doesn't want to be number one? No matter what the media loving hippies say about the war on terror being an excuse to get oil and the conspirators say about 9-11 being staged, the bottom line is we took a very bad man out of power and did the world a favor. However, with that being said this cultural analysis is a good one.
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