4/08/2010
Final draft
Ever since I got my first ipod 4 years ago, I became really interested in music. I started out with the songs that were popular at that time. However, I realized that these kind of songs' fame only lasts for about three months before they are forgotten. I looked for songs that will remain as my favorite song for a long time and figured that if I knew a story behind a song, I might be able to enjoy the song with more interest. "God knows" is the song that I consider a masterpiece.
"God knows" is a theme song of one of my favorite anime movies by a Japanese singer named Aya Hirano. This song is about a girl that is too unique. Because she was so unique, she always felt lonely and could not even talk to one boy that she liked. This song is really special to me because I also felt lonely because I had such different school life from everyone else. F0r example this one part of the song, "On the lonely rail" reminded me of the time when I had a hard time trying to live in another country without any relatives. Also, I had to transfer to another school every year, which made it hard for me to make close friends. However, this song ends by saying, "I'll follow you, no matter where you are at the darkness of this bitter. Because you will be shining." The lyrics of this song always cheers me up because when I think about it, I always had someone with me.
It seems to me that most modern music is focused too much on exiting beats and popularity. Although those songs are fun to enjoy for the moment, but they cannot be memorable if there is no meaning in them. I want to encourage everyone to recognize the true beauty of having special meanings in songs that we listen to.
Self assessment:
1. I am not used to writing the introduction and conclusion after writing the body paragraphs first, I find it hard to keep the essay consistant.
2 I had some difficulties trying to translate the Japanese lyrics into English because the words and grammer seems to be ignored in some part of the song, but I think I did well on that.
3 I am going to have to work on paraphrasing words and sentences that are repeated multuple times in one essay because it is awkward to see the same phrases over and over again
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