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Basically for my Culture and Honors class, I can do an analytical essay on an album that comments on Culture or Health. I REALLY want to do a Jon Bellion album, and I am having a hard time deciding between Glory Sound Prep and The Human Condition. Any recommendations, songs you like and their meaning that might help with my essay? Thank you!
"Statement of thesis/Problem/Main argument
How does music impact and call out cultural/health related issues, and how does Jon Bellion do this in the album ________?""I guess if I never fell, I guess I wouldn't need grace"
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@Amariez10585 Thank you! Mah's join could be a 8-10 page essay alone haha, his music is just such deep but poetic commentary
"I guess if I never fell, I guess I wouldn't need grace"
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@Amariez10585 Thank you! Mah's join could be a 8-10 page essay alone haha, his music is just such deep but poetic commentary
@cosmcbrownie your welcome I’m glad to help.
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The human condition.
Songs like New York Soul pt 2 call out “money not being the key to wealth” and how if it was then millionaires wouldn’t be killing themselves.
Or weight of the world calls out issues revolving society putting too much pressure on people for certain things. like to be successful in life for example.
fashion haha that whole song you could dive into it.
everyone wants and wants these fancy things, fashion, materialistic things. yet it’s still not enough.
“might be gold but that shits still a chain” is a hardddd line.beautiful mind
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the human condition is you know about the human condition i think it would be a killer essay.
beautiful mind
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i could totally see you writing something highlighting culture w THC—for example, Morning In America touches on a multitude of things, including America’s drug problem especially w kids in high school, parental problems, high expectations, addiction, etc.
Fashion talks about society’s obsession with materialistic things and possessions; “might be gold, but that shit’s still a chain”
New York Soul - Pt. ii gets into how money isn’t everything contrary to what the world will try to tell you, also the line “i had a conversation with an angel she told me i’d cheat death if i stayed away from the party life” could be expanded on
Woke The F*ck Up also gets into themes about how “we live in an age where everything is staged where all we do is fake our feelings” with the internet and everything seems so disingenuous and unauthentic
Hand Of God - Outro gets into the complexities of grief and the effects that it can have on people and the choices they makeanyway, that’s my two cents! i’d love to see whatever you do decide to write :))
“I figured out there’s money in my mind.”
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maybe idk
talks about being helpless while watching the news, which is still very prevalent nowadays
and just continuing to wonder why he cant run that fast in his dreams, why he can’t find his voice, why he misses people but can’t call
all to say maybe i don’t know, and maybe that’s okay. accepting the pressures of life and maybe it is okay.
beautiful mind
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i could totally see you writing something highlighting culture w THC—for example, Morning In America touches on a multitude of things, including America’s drug problem especially w kids in high school, parental problems, high expectations, addiction, etc.
Fashion talks about society’s obsession with materialistic things and possessions; “might be gold, but that shit’s still a chain”
New York Soul - Pt. ii gets into how money isn’t everything contrary to what the world will try to tell you, also the line “i had a conversation with an angel she told me i’d cheat death if i stayed away from the party life” could be expanded on
Woke The F*ck Up also gets into themes about how “we live in an age where everything is staged where all we do is fake our feelings” with the internet and everything seems so disingenuous and unauthentic
Hand Of God - Outro gets into the complexities of grief and the effects that it can have on people and the choices they makeanyway, that’s my two cents! i’d love to see whatever you do decide to write :))
@its_nat07 on par absolutely. i love how you included morning in america i was trying to get there
beautiful mind
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@its_nat07 on par absolutely. i love how you included morning in america i was trying to get there
@GabbyW0205 haha we were on the same wavelength!! great points on ur end too i didn’t even think abt that w Weight Of The World
“I figured out there’s money in my mind.”
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@GabbyW0205 haha we were on the same wavelength!! great points on ur end too i didn’t even think abt that w Weight Of The World
@its_nat07 you completed my thoughts
what you said about morning in america is just chefs kiss lolbeautiful mind
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'We live in an island where opioids go to rich kids, and then they pass away, that's called death over the privilege' -Adult Swim. We live in such an irrational and absurd world. So many give up what they work so hard for, or what they dream for, because they always fall short of fulfillment. Life is full of traps, but especially in our current world state, it's all too overwhelming. Sometimes we need to take a step back and just breath, too many don't know how.
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@its_nat07 you completed my thoughts
what you said about morning in america is just chefs kiss lol@GabbyW0205 aw thanks so much
“I figured out there’s money in my mind.”
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Basically for my Culture and Honors class, I can do an analytical essay on an album that comments on Culture or Health. I REALLY want to do a Jon Bellion album, and I am having a hard time deciding between Glory Sound Prep and The Human Condition. Any recommendations, songs you like and their meaning that might help with my essay? Thank you!
"Statement of thesis/Problem/Main argument
How does music impact and call out cultural/health related issues, and how does Jon Bellion do this in the album ________?"@cosmcbrownie I think if you listen back to the whole album of GSP it's all about mental health or taking care of one's self and inner circle first before anything else. Song by song he consistently talks about reaching a good place in life through music, God, and his family. He talks about wanting to slow down and enjoy those blessings but the grind of the music industry and keeping up social appearances grinds him down. I think there's a lot of evidence in every song to support that the whole of GSP is a letter from jon to fans that he needed to focus on the health of himself and his family and was most likely (unfortunately for all of us lol) step away for a while...7 years :')
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Basically for my Culture and Honors class, I can do an analytical essay on an album that comments on Culture or Health. I REALLY want to do a Jon Bellion album, and I am having a hard time deciding between Glory Sound Prep and The Human Condition. Any recommendations, songs you like and their meaning that might help with my essay? Thank you!
"Statement of thesis/Problem/Main argument
How does music impact and call out cultural/health related issues, and how does Jon Bellion do this in the album ________?"@cosmcbrownie I actually wrote an essay on the human condition for a pop culture class in college. I would have to go digging through my old files to find it but would it be posible to use songs from both albums?! The human condition is all about what it’s like being human in this crazy world. For your topic iRobot and fashion immediately come to mind. And then as some people have said on the forum GSP has some great songs that seem to talk about Jon wrestling with this idea that social media is a necessity because the possibility of what might happen if he discards it is really scary. I think of CWMW and the internet. Hope this helps. If you would want to see my essay let me know!!
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I’d definitely do THC for this one, but if you wanted to get juicy with it you could dig into how THC is focused outwards and GSP is focused in. THC is looking at the world and seeing all the fucked up bits and all the good stuff with it, and GSP is expanding that mindset and observation to include the writer’s internal experience.
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@cosmcbrownie I actually wrote an essay on the human condition for a pop culture class in college. I would have to go digging through my old files to find it but would it be posible to use songs from both albums?! The human condition is all about what it’s like being human in this crazy world. For your topic iRobot and fashion immediately come to mind. And then as some people have said on the forum GSP has some great songs that seem to talk about Jon wrestling with this idea that social media is a necessity because the possibility of what might happen if he discards it is really scary. I think of CWMW and the internet. Hope this helps. If you would want to see my essay let me know!!
@Jrosario66 I'd love to read it, even just for leisure! feel free to email it to isabellefonte@icloud.com . I could maybe do songs from both albums, but I have an 8-10 page limit, and I feel I could easily exceed that if I were to do both albums. I tend to rant when I write, so I was hoping to pinpoint an album, or a specific topic thats less broad than just "Culture" covered in his music. Thanks so much for your feedback!! :))
"I guess if I never fell, I guess I wouldn't need grace"
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I’d definitely do THC for this one, but if you wanted to get juicy with it you could dig into how THC is focused outwards and GSP is focused in. THC is looking at the world and seeing all the fucked up bits and all the good stuff with it, and GSP is expanding that mindset and observation to include the writer’s internal experience.
@CasperAaron Nice point, thanks for your feedback!
"I guess if I never fell, I guess I wouldn't need grace"
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@Jrosario66 I'd love to read it, even just for leisure! feel free to email it to isabellefonte@icloud.com . I could maybe do songs from both albums, but I have an 8-10 page limit, and I feel I could easily exceed that if I were to do both albums. I tend to rant when I write, so I was hoping to pinpoint an album, or a specific topic thats less broad than just "Culture" covered in his music. Thanks so much for your feedback!! :))
@cosmcbrownie I FEEEEEEEEEL THAT!!!!! That’s how I felt when I wrote my essay. I will hopefully have it to you by the weekend
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Hey good luck on your essay! I see you've aleeady got plenty suggestions and my brain is dead at the moment from mid terms, but gotta say my last year of high school I made a whole essay about jon's music for a class hahaha. Had to relate some song themes to a book and personal experiences. Tbh I could still write whole essays ab Jon's music just for fun
☆ It was never enough ☆
☆ He just needed saving from himself ☆
