Keep your head up by Andy Grammer Wongsupakapan Kittakorn Ms. Galloway English 20 March 2014
SUMMARY This song is about guy that is poor and he explain about his life. This speaker say that not to let your self down. He say that if he stay like this he’ll be fine. He say that the one day he’ll find the luck.
Speaker This speaker is poor he is telling us that not to letting himself down like he did to him self. This speaker’s tone is joyful, sad, and excited. His mood is sad and relaxed. It makes me feel relax and calm.
Musicality This song’s instruments was drums. His beat was slow and kind of chilling. His melody was tone slow and smooth. Over all mood was happy and little sad.
Theme This song is saying that his life was bad and he need a luck. The evidence is that he say “ keep your hair up and let your hair down”. I know that this is the theme because he say not to let your self down and the sun will always come again. Here is the support evidence “Only rainbows after rain The sun will always come again”.
Figurative Language Simile Example: (5) “Higher then my income, my income’s breadcrumbs” Explanation: The bread cost money.
Figurative Language Personification Example: (45) “only rainbow after rain” Explanation: The rainbow will show after rain stop”
Figurative Language Repetition Example: (19,23,41) “And you can let your hair down” Explanation: Its keep repeating.
Sound devices Rhyme Example: (40,41) “you gotta keep your head up, oh, and you can let your hair down ,eh”
Sound devices Onomatopoeia (16) “oh” , “So you can let your head up, oh”
Personal Connection I choose this song because it has a point of living in this world. It attract me by stay in school not to loose job and not to be poor. My personal connection is we all gotta keep our heads up and succeed what we were meant to be and not to loose it. This song is great than I thought it wouldn’t be because it teach us not to let our self go.
Work site page “Keep your dead up” Day release: Feb 14, 2011 Record: 2010 Length: 3:10 Genre: pop rock, soft rock. Format: digital download. Label: S-Curve.