figurative language




     NeverShoutNever is a band I used to fan girl over when I was about fourteen years old. Their style is a more alterative genre rather than pop. My friends and I would watch His music videos for hours. I really enjoy the unique twist he would use on his songs. In those years of “fan girling”, there was not any other artists I was exposed to that sounded like him.
For instance, one of my all-time favorite songs that I still jam too is ,“trouble”, on the album ME and Me Uke-EP, He sings,
“She’s got my heart tied in a knot and my stomach in a whorl”
This is a hyperbole, it is indicated by him singing his heart is in a knot, and his stomach in a whorl. These are exaggerations because those two things are impossible.
     An artist I love so very much is Michael Jackson, I still am and always will be a fan girl for him. His music qualifies in many different categories like; pop, soul, rhythm and blues, rock, etc.
In the hit song “thriller” from the album thriller, he sings
“darkness falls across the land”
This indicates imagery, he is giving us a visual on the setting.
    Frank Ocean was a singer I listened to before he got famous from his album channel ORANGE. I began to listen to him around the same time I started listening to NeverShoutNever. He uses a lot of figurative language in his songs. 
In one of his popular songs “pyramids” in the album Channel ORANGE, he singers
“Our skin like bronze and our hair like cashmere”

Frank is comparing skin and hair to a tan tone person. This is Simile he uses like to compare skin to bronze and hair to cashmere.  

Comments

  1. UnknownOctober 26, 2017 at 10:17 AM

    I am going to take a wild guess and assume you are a big fan of MJ. Not many people talk about him anymore! Stay a true fan!
    You had a very good use of figurative language!

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  2. Heather GreenOctober 26, 2017 at 10:21 AM

    Michael Jackson uses a bunch of figurative language in his music. Great job of pointing it out.

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  3. matisse zamoraOctober 26, 2017 at 10:23 AM

    I am a huge fan of Frank Ocean and I love the song Pyramids. Although it is so long, I can relate to your liking of his music. I bet Frank Ocean has many figurative language examples. Great job at finding that simile.

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  4. UnknownOctober 26, 2017 at 10:36 AM

    I LOOOOOVE NEVER SHOUT NEVER!!!!! This song does show hyperbole , and your example is how he made my stomach feel when i saw him live!

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  5. Taylor JohnsonOctober 26, 2017 at 10:41 AM

    You had really good lyrics. They had great figurative language but I must admit Michael Jackson is my favorite one.

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  6. UnknownOctober 26, 2017 at 9:17 PM

    You have chosen some great songs that have figurative language in them.

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  7. UnknownOctober 29, 2017 at 9:24 PM

    the songs you have chosen are great for figurative language from the king pop

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  8. AntonioOctober 29, 2017 at 9:37 PM

    By far Thriller was one of the best songs of all time, I could not stop dancing/singing to it. Nevertheless, I like the way you broke the song down with figurative language.

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