Thursday, February 19, 2015

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.

20 comments:

  1. Yes, the lyrics definetely connect with the concept of xenophobia. The line that most connects me to the concept of xenophobia is "There's a starman waiting in the sky He'd like to come and meet us But he thinks he'd blow our minds". The reason this sticks out to me is the fact that they don't know what is out in the universe, but there is someone that will blow their minds and have a very high potential to cause some type of xenophobia. The other song that talks about having the spaceman take him for a ride to me sounds like he is somewhat excited and yet scared (xenophobia) of what is out there and still hasn't been explored.

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  2. Yes, because he is in the unknown, "i don't know what time it was, the lights were low." "there's a star man waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our mind." scared of unknown. "next thing i knew they took my blood type, left a strange impression in my skin, cut me open, changed my mind" scary happening he doesn't want anything to do with it. alien abduction strange stuff happens.

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  3. In these song lyrics, there seems to be a lot of acceptance than fear. Especially in the song, "Mr. Spaceman" because the singer as asking the aliens to take him with them. But, in the song "They're Not Here, They're Not Coming" the singer talks about government conspiracies as an explanation for the so called "alien invasions". My favorite song was "Zombies Ate my Neighbors" because it has the idea that something is coming for them, but they talk about fighting it. And this is a great example of xenophobia because in the beginning they don't know if the things coming are bad or good.

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  4. from the concept of xenophobia descibed by the stories we have already read, i would ay the songs shoe mostly the oppisite. they show a general acceptance of aliens or a respect of them. in the first song the aliens come down with a saucy jam and the humans love their vibe. even all the way through to the last song, genrally people accept aliens widely.

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  5. These lyrics are all very interesting and complex, due to the fact that you have to be a little bit odd to write about aliens. I believe this heavily connects with xenophobia, because the songs are extremely foreign in lyrics just like xenophobia is the fear of something foreign. I also think that all the songs use extrapolation, such as the lyrics "...buckets on their heads" talking about what the kids should wear when the aliens come. This is extrapolation because it assumes that the aliens are dangerous, and the kids need buckets on their heads for protection. Even though a lot of these songs are foreign, xenophobia doesn't always apply to something foreign forever. Many of these strange songs such as "Rocketman" become insanely popular despite being out of the norm.

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  6. Some of the songs connect with the concept of xenophobia. Some of them seem optimistic about humanity's contact of aliens while others are about being abducted or attacked. David Bowie's song seems to display David's interest in aliens. However, The Killers' song seems more cautious about what aliens could do to humanity.

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  7. Yes, these songs do tie into the idea of extrapolation. Such as in the song "Starman" by David Bowie, he says; "There's a starman waiting in the sky he'd like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our minds." gives an example as too the disconnect between things unknown and how we see them. This idea comes up multiple times throughout all of the songs. Some songs (most) promote the idea of an open mind in the way and how people should truly react to the unknown.

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  8. Yes these song lyrics connect with xenophobia because of these lyrics, “So grab something sharp and find some cover…” from Zombies Ate My Neighbors by Single File. In this song they talk about how people are talking about something going on in the neighborhood and they are telling everyone to gear up and go check it out. They automatically assume that they will be bad and prepare for the worst with their weapons to protect themselves. Most of these songs have the fear and concern for what is “happening” in the song. They are unsure of their safety and I think that the world would react in the same way that these people did with curiosity, but also surround themselves with protection of their own.

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  9. These songs represent the fear of invasion or abduction that is popular in extraterrestrial stories. Xenophobia is demonstrated because of the fear portrayed in these songs. xenophobia is also present as a lack of understanding that humanity has for the “spaceman” The spaceman says, "Everybody look down It’s all in your mind" In two songs The alien provides insight that the world is not ready for yet demonstrating a different form of xenophobia.

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  10. Yes i do belive that these songs we just listened to in class really dose connect to xenophobia. The songs all had lyrics of space travel or also foreign life forms. It also explains how some are scared of it and it i believe just over all goes out to show whats possibly out there and also how some act to what is foreign and out there

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  11. In the first two songs the singers seem slightly confused as to what aliens are, but they seemingly want to meet them. This addresses xenophobia because the artist does seem frightened of them, even if they would like to meet the alien. Abduction is often mentioned, with the singer talking about being afraid of getting abducted or getting abducted. Another element often mentioned is the sky or stars, and talking about where the aliens are from.

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  12. The songs dont show signs of xenophobia, they are accepting of aliens. Until he one of the artist gets cut open by them then he just wants to go home but for the most part they want to explore the galaxies with the aliens.

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  13. I think the song "Zombies Ate My Neighbor" by Single File relates with xenophobia connects with xenophobia because the song is talking about fighting back against the zombies or the unknown enemy when they say "This isn't funny any more, oh no, this means war."

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  14. I think that the song lyrics do have the concept of xenophobia because they all have this idea of exploring the unknown and how had to do with lights dimming out or turning off, the song space man by the killers the first line was it started with a low light then the other song Mr. Spaceman the first line is woke up with the light in my eyes and then realized it was still dark outside so it has the concept of how light has to do something with xenophobia

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  15. Collectively, these songs show xenophobia through the presence and assumptions that they each have of spacemen, and them coming to earth. There is the fear of abduction in some, and others just show the fear that revolves around the prospect of aliens, like in "They're not here, they're not coming" when it says to "stop your trembling, stop your tears", being a reaction of the people if aliens were indeed coming to earth.

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  16. The lyrics all connect with the concept of xenophobia. The song that stands out the most with it's hints of xenophobia is the song Spaceman by The Killers because the lyrics express the artiste's "experience" with space abduction. The song says "You know that I was hoping, that I could leave this star-crossed world behind. But when they cut me open, I guess I changed my mind." This shows how things you're unsure of or have a prediction of how they will turn out, often don't end well or how you anticipated they would.

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  17. Yes, because its the fear of the unknown. In the song "SpaceMan" by the killers has some lyrics that popped out to me. "You know that I was hoping,
    That I could leave this star-crossed world behind
    But when they cut me open,
    I guess I changed my mind." This connects to xenophobia because he wanted to leave this world but when he started too he didn't want to anymore. The fear of the unknown, wanting to but then when its happening its scary because he doesn't know whats going to happen.

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  18. I think these lyrics connect with xenophobia because each artist has lyrics about the aliens coming down to earth. The artists sing about getting ready to fight the aliens or talk about being scared that they might be coming down to earth which shows xenophobia because they don't want the aliens to come down and take over the world.

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  19. Yes, these songs all relate to xenophobia in some way. The song that stood out to me was by Don Henley who had a successful career with the Eagles before going on to a solo career. In his song he talks about Stone Henge as a magical place where aliens visit. He also says that Arizona is a major place to have alien visits due to the hot temperature as it may be closer to the temperature of the alien planets being so hot. The aliens would come to Arizona trying to be comfortable. The people in Arizona, including Don Henley were very afraid of the alien coming down from the skies.

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  20. I believe that the songs relate to xenophobia in some way because each artist has lyrics about the aliens, and some bands also sing about the wonders of the world and how they came to created by Alien beings. some singers sang about fighting back against the aliens do to the fear of Alien domination.

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