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I'm Clifford Stumme, and I use literary analysis and research to explain the deeper meanings of pop songs. Feel free to leave a comment or to email me at clifford@popsongprofessor.com with questions or ideas!
I'm Clifford Stumme, and I use literary analysis and research to explain the deeper meanings of pop songs. Feel free to leave a comment or to email me at clifford@popsongprofessor.com with questions or ideas!
‘Level of Concern’ by Twenty One Pilots was just released and if I’m not mistaken, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun are making a massive play on the charts; I think the song is going to go big, and I am here to talk about what I think about it and explain it.
Billie Eilish has just dropped a new single, and it’s going to be the new James Bond movie’s song; which makes her and her brother the youngest artists to write and record a song for this huge franchise. So let’s talk about it.
“Adore You” bears a conceptually deep, enigmatic meaning that delivered the thrill fans hoped for from Styles’s new LP.
Billie Eilish has just dropped a new music video for ‘xanny’; and although this song is all about how bad drug abuse is, it’s anything but preachy; who did she manage to do that? and does this song has a more personal deeper meaning to Billie herself? well, that’s what we’ll be talking about today.
Billie Eilish has just dropped a new song, in my opinion, it’s one of the best songs she’s put out there is a while; ‘everything I wanted’ is a very real and vulnerable song, about a suicide dream and her brother, Finneas. There is a lot to be talked about, so let’s start, shall we?
The album, ‘Lover’, was going to be named ‘Daylight’ after this song; this alone should tell you how important this song is.
This track in particular is a creative way to communicate the new values that West finds important by using an understandable and culturally relevant metaphor, which is a clever artistic choice.
Regardless of Kanye’s personal beliefs, this song is still a great example of the rap music that made Kanye popular — witty quips, strong opinions, and controversial topics.
“Frail State of Mind” is a realistic, first-person perspective of social anxiety: how it affects relationships, experiences, and mundane activities in a person’s daily life.
