English Class
September 15, 2010
Bulletproof:
An Essay on the Song by La Roux
When you hear a song on the, radio, the Internet, or on your iPod, does it sometimes remind you of your feelings about something? For me, the song “Bulletproof” has lots of the same ideas that I had when summer was ending.
(TS) When the summer was coming to an end, and school was about to start, I had lots of mixed feelings, most of which are expressed in the song “Bulletproof.” (SD) After the opening music, when the first verse starts, the main singer sings, “I'm having fun don't put me down I'll never let you sweep me off my feet.” (CM1) The beginning of the verse is just like how I was having fun in the summer and I didn’t want it to end. (CM2) The second part of the verse represents how, even though I was sad for summer to end, I didn’t let it change my personality. (SD) After the chorus and some more singing, she sings, “Tick tick tick tick on the watch and life's too short for me to stop Oh baby, your time is running out.”(CM1) This reflects my feelings near the end of summer because I knew my time was running out. (CM2) However, again, I realized that “life’s too short for me to stop,” and that I needed to get over the fact that summer was ending and I had to go back to school. (SD) Last, the most obvious part of the song, the chorus, was like summer with the words, “This time baby I'll be bulletproof. This time baby…” (CM1) One of my goals for the year was to not let anyone get to me. (CM2) This also talks about the fact that, if someone does get to you, don’t let them get in the way of more important things you do. (CS) As you can see, the song has a lot to do with my summer ending and school beginning.
The song “Bulletproof” obviously expresses lots of my feelings all in one. It expresses the fun you have during the summer, the time crunch in the end of summer, and even some of my goals for going back to school. Lots of songs have amazing things in them, so next time you hear a song on the radio, internet, or on your iPod, see if you can find things that relate to you, your life and your feelings.
Self Assessment
1. I am still trying to make sure I get my punctuation right, so hopefully I did well on that in my essay
2. I think a strong point is probably how I kept quoting the song, and using the quotes to help support my point.
3. I think a weak point of my essay is the CM2 of my 3rd SD because, even though it is true, it doesn’t reflect the quote that well.
4. I would probably give myself an A- because it was overall pretty good except a few small errors.
Alexander,
ReplyDeleteI love how you took this song and made it into a perfect example of the assignment given to us. This is a great piece of writing. However, I think that in the topic sentence, it would sound more dignified if you said "I had a lot of mixed feelings," instead of "I had lots of feelings." Also, i think that if you took the "make me" out of the sentence "I didn’t let it make me change my personality." the sentence would flow more smoothly. Overall though, the paragraph was great and I enjoyed reading it.