Figurative language – i.e. the usage of similes, metaphors, allusions, personifications and hyperboles – is arguably the greatest tool at a songwriter’s disposal outside of words themselves. That’s because practically every song you hear, no...
Upon reading the lyrics of Janet Jackson’s “Got ‘Til It’s Gone”, the idea being presented in this song is quite simple. It is based on an ideology, as Janet Jackson explained in her own word,...
The era that “Big Yellow Taxi” came out, the year 1970 in particular, was one in which musicians were very environmentally-conscious. This was largely due to America experiencing a couple of ecological disasters which made people more...
