Analyzing the song ‘FFGHT Song’
Objective and history of the song "Fight Song";Platten wanted to remind people and themselves bad voices in our heads that continue to say that we are not good enough and that we cannot do it, or that it is too late, they are not really true. Keep fighting for what you think and never give up. In an interview with Billboard magazine, Rachel talked about what inspired her to write this song. She said: ‘You know, I have been doing this race for a long time, but there were not many reasons, at that time when I wrote‘ Fight Song ’, to believe that I should continue. There were many signs that indicated that I needed to find something else. I was breaking my heart, and ‘Fight Song’ was this statement that I was not going to resign, that didn’t matter. Even if I was only going to get to a couple of people at night, I was still going to do this, I was still going to find a way to make music and create, I just needed it at that time, you know, I needed that reminder that I believed in myselfno matter what ‘.
The musical style of the song "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten is Indie-Pop, which is characterized by being originated in the early 1960s, independent pop moves away from the conventions marked by commercial music and large record labels;This results in a much more spontaneous, fun and authentic sound. Together with rock, indie pop is one of the most representative genres within independent music, and without a doubt one of the most popular, more fun and with greater acceptance among the public in general. Within it we can find many subgenres or styles, from the Power-Pop to the twee-pop through the jangle-pop, the art-pop and the ones closest to electronic music, such as electro-pop or synth-Pop.
The term "indie" comes from the independent word, and all the music that reaches the public by its own means, that is, without a record label that supports them enters this category. They are groups that focus on underlining their own style, showing the music that they like to create without depending on global trends or a brand that types them in a certain genre. His music could enter the category of worship, because they only reach those fans that go beyond the commercial.
Characteristics to be "indie":
- When the group is not linked to musical market circuits or sound or advertising dissemination. That is, it is themselves who promote their music with their own means.
- When it is done with a purely artistic and non -commercial vocation.
- When the band’s style or music does not enter any commercial label parameter. That is, if it is not pop, or rock, or sauce … but all that together, is indie.
- When the record label that edits the recordings or promotes the concerts is small or amateur. That is, it is not Sony, nor Warner, nor universal.
- When the entire artistic process is main.
One of the musical styles that are related to the indie-pop would be emotion and ambop.
Emo pop is characterized by being a rock music style characterized by an emphasis on emotional expression, sometimes through confessional letters. It emerged as a post-scourge style from the hardcore punk movement in Washington, D.C of the mid -1980s, in the early 1990s, the EMO was adopted and reinvented by alternative rock bands, indie rock and pop punk. Often seen as a subculture, emo also means a specific relationship between fans and artists and certain aspects of fashion, culture and behavior.
Emo subculture is stereotypically associated with emotion, sensitivity, misanthropy, shyness, introversion and anguish, as well as with depression, self-harm and suicide. The term emo is an apocope of Emotive Hardcore or Emo-Core and refers to the letters of the genre groups, characterized by addressing, unlike the hardcore punk, more personal themes using more introspective letters in their compositions, looking for thisway to generate the same emotions in the listener. To achieve greater expressiveness, they use rhythm and cresceond changes in their music, combining in the same song outbreaks inherited from hardcore, with more peaceful sounds. Depending on the style of each band, the aforementioned sound can vary, adding or removing shouts in favor of clean voices, being more or less chaotic, or aspiring to a more or less dark sound.
Pop ambient;Environmental pop is a musical genre that developed in the 1980s as an extension of the dream pop movement. It fuses structures that are common to conventional pop music with ‘electronic textures and atmospheres that reflect the hypnotic and meditative qualities of environmental music’. Environmental pop uses Krautrock lock groove melodies as an influence. Despite being an extension of the Dream Pop movement, it is distinguished by its adoption of contemporary electronic idioms, including sampling, although mostly live instruments continue to define the sound.
Ambient Pop combines elements of the two different styles that give their name to the generous genre, while music has a common form and form to conventional pop, its electronic textures and atmospheres reflect the hypnotic and meditative qualities of the environment. Krautrock locking melodies are also a clear influence, although environmental pop is usually much less abrasive. Essentially an extension of the Dream Pop that arose following the Shoegazer movement, distinguishes itself from its background due to its absorption of contemporary electronic idioms, including sampling, although mostly live instruments continue to define the sound.
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