Monday, October 7, 2013
Alien Song Lyrics And Xenophobia?
Do the songs and song lyrics connect with the concept of xenophobia? If so, how? Also, feel free to comment regarding other connections with science fiction. Please include some references to songs and song lyrics in your response. Please finish this blog response during class today.
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Some of the lyrics describe the aliens as strangers, while some of the lyrics welcome the aliens. The Killers describe them as most people do, as creatures that abduct humans and do expermints on them. Don Henley and Stan Lynch say that they're non existent. Many of these lyrics both compliment and oppose each other is their ideas
ReplyDeleteThe first song, "Starman", contributed to xenophobia because the whole song was a message being sent to the man in the stars referring to an alien or foreign creature. The singer was asking for peace in a way from the creature because we always think that others or foreign creatures are dangerous to our survival and we demonize them or the idea of them. All of the songs prove how xenophobic our culture is because they make it seem like the end of the world.
ReplyDeleteThe songs are very descriptive and tell a story. For example Spaceman by The Killers seemed like it was a personal experience and have no fear of the of the alien world. Its almost like they are trying to expose the alien world and the unknown .
ReplyDeleteThe song lyrics embrace the concept of xenophobia because the artists all say that they want to meet these "spacemen", or these foreign people, but as The Killers say in their song "Spaceman", "But when they cut me open, I guess I changed my mind". When the aliens or foreign creatures come and actually interact with people, they don't like it as much and decide to stay with their normal lives.
ReplyDeleteThese songs connect with the concept of xenophobia because these songs talk about "odd" creatures or people such as "spacemen", "zombies", and "aliens". These songs describe the characters as being scary, creepy, different, or out of this world, which results in xenophobia, for the fear of the unknown is basically the topic of these various songs.
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ReplyDeleteThese science fiction songs all show some type of xenophobia one way or the other. They all describe some sort of fear in the lyrics. "We are gonna need a little help tonight". This lyric shows that they fear that they will need some back up. All of these songs are perfect examples of xenophobia because they all demonstrate some sort of fear in their lyrics.
These songs and song lyrics don't connect with the concept of xenophobia because they most of the sings talk about wanting to explore space and go off the spaceman. There isn't really fear towards the unknown, more like a curiosity.
ReplyDeleteI think the lyrics do go with the concept of xenophobia because David Bowie talks about a star man above and it almost sounds like he is frightened, but byrds lyrics almost sound like they enjoy the thought of a space man and being with him and stuff. In the song spaceman by the killers the thought of xenophobia is definitely there because they talk being ripped from a bed and having their blood type being taken and that sounds scary, the thought of another being knowing that much personal stuff about you. Don Henry's song was very insightful about xenophobia. Mr. Henry talks about the other beings in this world and he doesn't really appreciate that fact. In the song Zombies ate my neighbor by single file you can feel the xenophobia because they talk about in the song being frightened by these zombies or other beings and maybe talking about fighting or defending themselves, and anything you think you need to defend yourself from other beings than you are definitely afraid of them.
ReplyDeleteThese songs and song lyrics relate to xenophobia because most of the songs use the emotional response of fear. With Zombies Ate My Neighbors, they mention needing a little help to fend off the things coming for them, zombies, if you will. Xenophobia is a fear of the unknown but this fear can lead us to attack, or defend from our point of view. In Zombies Ate My Neighbor, they use their fear for a reason to attack the zombies. This is how it connects to xenophobia.
ReplyDeleteThis songs and lyrics relate to xenophobia because they all talk about out of space things and mythical creatures like zombies, alien ships, and spacemen. They're not here, they're not coming talks about aliens invading us, but they aren't coming even in a million years.
ReplyDeleteThe concept of xenophobia and the song lyrics do connect with each other because it shows and presents the fear within the words the artist is portraying. The tone of the artist along with the words itself describe the fear of aliens and being different.
ReplyDeleteThese songs may be taking about aliens and how they are so different, but the only one that really seems xenophobic would be the Zombies Ate My Neighbors. it talks about how "This means war" and that the thing had "olive eyes and chalk white skin". They are different so the people wanted to destroy them. The other songs talk about how the people want to go with the aliens and travel.
ReplyDeleteThe song lyrics we listened to today did connect with xenophobia because the main theme of all the songs was fear of the unknown and the harm they could cause. "But when they cut me open, I guess i changed my mind." - The Killers. Aliens are portrayed as nasty things and cause fear in the eyes of many people.
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The songs don't really express xenophobia, but they do talk about the stereotypes that people created. The songs make the aliens sound more human-like when it comes to morals and diet. As sung by David Bowie: “He'd like to come and meet us But he thinks he'd blow our minds”, this quote suggest human-like traits aliens are given in these songs are wanting to blow the minds of his peers and wanting to prove who’s smarter.
Alien Son lyrics an Xenophobia
ReplyDeleteThe songs on this word document reminded me a lot of stereotyping. One of the songs says green blue foot prints glow in the dark, and everyone always thinks aliens are green or blue. I liked in one of the songs it made a connection with the news and they would already be there.
Xenophobia is becomeing, in my eyes more and more evident in our soceity. As we delve deeper into exnophobic media it becomes clear that the fear of the unknown is not only ingrained but sensationalized. There's a starman waiting in the sky
ReplyDeleteHe'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
These lyrics are a wonderful example of that to me. The begining of the song seems almost foreboding but suddenly the "alien" is accessable and speaks to David about not wanting to "blow our minds" a very optomisitc veiw of aliens. However a few of the other songs display and much more exnophobic tendancy. which to me seems a more constant trend in modern culture.
Even though we have not had contact with alien life, we still hold ideas about what they would look like, and how they would act towards humanity. " Little man with a great big head".
ReplyDeleteThe songs definitely show xenophobia but not just aliens but also zombies which does fit in the definition of xenophobia. In some of the songs like "Zombies Ate My Neighbor" they talk about grabbing things sharp and going and attacking the zombies. There was also a lot of stereotyping in the stories like in "They're Not Here, They're Not Coming", and "Mr. Spaceman" as well as "Spaceman" where they talk about green and blue aliens that cut you open and fly in discs ect. They use the words "zipping white light beams", and saucers shaped like light" stereotyping the classic form of transportation for aliens.
ReplyDeleteThese song connect to xenophobia because they all talk about how aliens are arriving to Earth and everyone is gathering around them. The song lyrics do not really relate xenophobia because they mostly talk about how the are receiving them with no drama. One part of a song stuck our to me: "They're not here, they're not coming, Not in a million years...". This stuck out to me because the singer thinks that aliens won't come for a long time; he is not afraid of them, just does not believe aliens will come.
ReplyDeleteIn some of the songs, mainly Mr. Spaceman by Byrd the Aliens seemed more friendly. They wrote the man in the song a letter in toothpaste saying: "So long, we'll see you again." And in the song Spaceman by The Killers the aliens sounded much more vicious. He sings about the aliens taking his blood and also about how they cut him open. This just shows that different people have different opinions on aliens. Some people see them as friendly beings looking for company, and others see them as vicious creatures wanting to kill us and take control of our planet.
ReplyDeletei think theses songs connect to xenophobia because all the songs talk about fear. they are all in fear of the "aliens" they write about ."THIS MEANS WAR" is stated in single files song. this shows the hate and fear for something new and different they don't understand. the killers also stated “but when they cut me open i changed my mind.” it shows we relate aliens to violence and experiments. another example of xenophobia.
ReplyDeleteThese songs do connect to science fiction and the concept of xenophobia. All of the songs deal with wondering about the unknown of space and how humans would react to different situations. Some of them are more positive about encounters with extra terrestrial life. For example, "Mr. Spaceman" by the Bryds has the main character of the song wishing to go along with the aliens and wants to do them no harm. But in "Zombie Ate My Neighbors" by Single File, the song is about a zombie apocalypse and takes a more negative stance towards things that are foreign. Overall, the songs all reflected xenophobia in different lights.
ReplyDeleteThese song lyrics definitely exhibit trends of xenophobia. In the case of Spaceman by the Killers, they sensationalize the ideas of running away with the aliens but then show the "horrors" of stereotypical alien probing and experimentation. In the case of Zombies Ate My Neighbors by Single File, it shows a xenophobia toward the zombies. They even go as far as to "grab something sharp, find some cover, kill the lights, and nail the back door shut." That is a pretty extreme response to a foreign situation. However, the song Starman by David Bowie, he likes the idea of running away with aliens and leaving the world as he knows it behind.
ReplyDelete"I can't be certain but I swear I hear emjust outside", A lyric from Single File's "Zombies Ate My Neighbors" contributes to xenophobia by showing the fear of the unknow in the way that the people react to the "Zobies". Many songs use imagination, just as science fiction stories do. The element of fear in the song adds to its feeling.
ReplyDeleteThe lyrics correlate with xenophobia in the way that there are distant beings' like the "spaceman" and the "little man with the great big head" which becomes like a conspiracy by hiding it from the public to not create fear, just like in the song Zombies Ate My Neighbors, were 9 news is supposedly broadcasting the chaos, making for a unsettling feeling
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