Success
Kevin Rudolf “I Made It”
Lupe Fiasco “Superstar”
Kanye West “Good Life”
Survivor “Eye of the Tiger”
Drake “Successful”
Liberation
Chris Brown “Deuces”
Madonna “Like a Virgin”
Mr. Mister “Broken Wings”
Britney Spears “Stronger ”
TI “Dead and Gone”
To me the aim that was definitely more prevalent was success. It was so much easier finding songs for success. The majority of rap songs that aren’t about pleasure are about success. A lot of songs, once again mostly rap, are about how much money they have earned and want you to see how successful they are. An observation I made while doing this second assignment was that for me it was somewhat difficult finding songs for liberation. Once again I did try to only use my itunes library so this might be why I found it so difficult. I thought it would be easier when you could consider songs about break ups liberating in a way. The only song at first that came to mind for liberation was “Deuces”. On the other hand while I was going through my library to find songs for success, I just had to go through my list of songs and easily picked five out. The Hindu perspective of success I feel is much different from that of what people in American believe success is. Hindu’s believe that being successful is having enough money to support your family. Whereas in American begin successful would mean more of becoming wealthy.
