Thursday, March 16, 2017
Alien Song Lyrics And Xenophobia?
Do the songs and Alien 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.
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In the Spaceman song, referring to "bang bang shoot em up" clearly shows how xenophobia was very prominent back in the years. Humans were going to be very aggressive to other worldly visitors, no matter what.
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ReplyDelete"star man"
Seems like maybe he even might have been abducted very futuristic, definitely talking about an alien. talking about children a lot as well
"Rocket Man"
that he is not really on this planet and that he feels like he is already home instead of wishing he was home
"the killers"
Talking about how they took his blood type and cut him open and how they know him already also abduction
"mr space man"
no one knows about them or the bright light coming from the sky "xenophobia" because they call them strangers but why are they strange?
I don't think so. They don't really have much to do with fear of the unknown, more of just referencing the unknown. Rocket man for example just says that he's a different person now than when he left, but that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with xenophobia. In Mr. Spaceman he isn't afraid of the spaceman, he wants to go with them.
ReplyDeleteIn "Spaceman" by The Killers, the line, "It left a strange impression in my head.
ReplyDeleteYou 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. " represents how things aren't always what they seem and though things are new different, they don't always turn out as we expect. This concept is seen a lot in Xenophobia in curiosity with the unknown and reacting in various ways.
In the song mr spaceman it says "Must be those strangers that come every night
ReplyDeleteWhose saucers shaped light put people up tight
Leave blue green footprints that glow in the dark
I hope they get home all right." This is saying that people never new if there were other things that they needed to be afraid of. And it connects to xenophobia because it shows that everyone can be afraid of something unknown coming at night and you not even knowing that it is there
In Rocket Man, the lyric "I'm not the man they think I am at home", demonstrates xenophobia in the sense of people judging his character, and thinking they know what he does. But really, he is completely different to how they view him.
ReplyDeleteIn the song Rocketman the lyric Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids is saying that Mars is still unknown and may be very dangerous.
ReplyDeleteAll of these songs are about either something foreign or being the foreign one in the story. In Rocket Man by Elton John he says,"Till touchdown brings me round again to find
ReplyDeleteI’m not the man they think I am at home". He is talking about how he is not who he thinks he is at home which people are scared of being not who they think they are.
The songs have the stereotypical idea of aliens. "Whose saucers shaped light put people up tight
ReplyDeleteLeave blue green footprints that glow in the dark" and "Little man with a great big head" People assume they're green and they fly in saucers. The next thing people assume is that aliens want to abduct them and their planet. "It started with a low light,
Next thing I knew they ripped me from my bed
And then they took my blood type" and
"It left a strange impression in my head. "Turn your hopes back homeward
Hold your children, dry their tears
You may see the heavens flashing
You may hear the cosmos humming
But I promise you, my brother
They're not here, they're not coming" Humans fear the unknown which could be the downfall of humans. What if we found a species that could help our planet and humanity, but we're too afraid of aliens to even consider talking to them. Why do aliens have to be green and weird and ugly? From the stories aliens can be anything. They don't have to be ugly. We fear the aliens because we're taught they could take our children and kill us all.
These songs connect with xenophobia because they inspire a kind of fear of something that is unknown, with references to space and zombies. Some of the lyrics talk about 'feeling weird'.
ReplyDeleteIn Mr Spaceman, the vocal line "Hey Mr. Spaceman, won't you please take me along" almost exhibits the opposite of xenophobia, wanting to go away, not afraid of the unknown.
ReplyDeleteAlmost all the songs talk about an alien coming form space or them going to space and the songs don't talk about what the aliens did but just about what they look like and that they did come
ReplyDeleteMany of the songs compare being away from home to be being a terrifying or scary experience being in the unknown. And they want to come back; "Hey mother Earth, won't cha bring me back down."
ReplyDeleteIt is cool to see the popular music talked about science fiction elements. These song all talk about how they miss Earth. There is not really xenophobia in these song but they do connect to science fiction.
ReplyDeleteMany of the songs, like Elton John's Rocket Man, highlight the way space is unforgiving and not very welcoming, "Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids". But all of these songs also speak about the way that space calls to them, despite all its drawbacks. This connects to xenophobia because we are scared or dislike what isn't familiar or seem normal to us, but we also can't avoid it or can't seem to help being curious about it.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that the song lyrics have a direct correlation to xenophobia. The songs may talk about science fiction elements but not xenophobia in particular. They don't sing about being fearful of the unknown, they just give off examples. There are examples but no direct relations.
ReplyDeleteIn the song Mr. Spaceman shows xenophobia when in the song it says "bang bang shoot em up". This is because it shows that Americans wouldn't be nice to foreigners and wouldn't like them at all.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that most of these songs connect with the concept of xenophobia. Most of these songs seem to be about people leaving earth, or spacemen coming to earth. However, the Don Henley one did display some xenophobia, since it talked about an alien coming to earth and the government covering it up.
ReplyDeleteonce i have listened to these songs I realize how many popular songs I enjoy that touch on science fiction elements. Its interesting to see how many movies, songs, and books there are that influence these ideas about the future.
ReplyDeleteAll the songs are about space travels and a if they are alien they are peaceful and explorers. Also they all talked about men
ReplyDeleteAll of the songs are singing about something foreign. But they are not necessarily talking about violence so it is less xenophobic.
ReplyDeleteI think that the aliens song lyrics connect with the concept of xenophobia because they all cover the same topic: The things in our world that we don’t know about. Such as in the song In the Year 2525, it talks about a time in the future where he only way to know what will happen is to live there and so anyone can take their best guess. And that’s what the song is. Some ideas may be out of this world while others may be correct and some can be kind of scary that they one day might come true.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the alien song lyrics connect with xenophobia because xenophobia is about being scared of foreign things and from the lyrics I read it just seems they're talking about how they feel about their personal situation about Earth and how they feel like they're not apart of it anymore
ReplyDeleteI think the lyrics from Rocket Man Says "it's lonely out in space" saying like they're not going to find anything. Also, at the end when it says"a long time" I think it's saying like that they're not going to be able to see his family and get home.
ReplyDeleteIn the song "Rocket man" by Elton john, I believe there is a sense of xenophobia within the song especially when he says "Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact it’s cold as hell. And there’s no one there to raise them if you did. And all this science I don’t understand" This could be implied that he doesn't want to raise his kid on mars because he fears the unknown.
ReplyDeleteThe songs are interesting, to say the least, in their composition. All are science fiction related, but there styles were vastly different. Rocket man, of course, being the most famous of all of them. It tells the story of a guy who's been sent on a mission in space, and he's describing his life and how he perceives the world and his job. (It's lonely out in space, I think it's going to be a long, long time, I miss the earth so much, etc.) It's a perspective we don't often see. In terms of xenophobia, the song that most aligned was the country song talking about the guy being abducted. It's a wacky song, but it's silly and fun, and mocks the idea of a real abduction somewhat.
ReplyDeleteThe songs in essence are all meant to take you away to somewhere else thats not in the moment but in the future or in space or to another dimension and they connect to the part of how technology has come out of these ideas in science fiction.
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