Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Claim Assignment: Switchfoot - Your Love Is A Song




Elements / Adjectives:

Lyrics - pensive, expectant, tenacious
Instruments - mellow, temperate
Emotion - uplifting, extolling, tender
Speed - deliberate
Vocals - husky, powerful, dreamy, breathless


Inferences:

Euphoric
Laudatory
Solemn
Ardent
Earnest


Claim:

In the song "Your Love Is A Song" by the band Switchfoot, the pensive, tenacious air of the lyrics, along with the mellow drum and guitar accompaniment and the powerful, husky, and dreamlike quality of the singer's vocals combine to evoke an overwhelming sense of breathlessness and euphoria surrounding the song's subject, a love so solemn and earnest it becomes the singer's reason for living.

3 comments:

  1. Your claim is so well-written and sounds really smart! It is wordy but it flows really well and has strong adjectives so the wordiness doesn't detract from it.

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  2. I really liked the expression in the second half of the sentence. "...[A]n overwhelming sense of breathlessness and euphoria" was particularly striking.

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