Thursday, March 1, 2018
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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These songs connect with xenophobia because they are talking about space being dark, cold, and scary. This shows the fear of new things and the fear of space. They say things like this is not a good place to live or raise your kids. This is how it shows xenophobia in the songs.
ReplyDeletethere is definitely some connection to xenophobia. throughout all the songs that are played there is some alien stereotypes that are present. The classic aliens appearing from a spaceship on some poor fools out in the country side. The use of plains and deserts is used quiet often. it's also portrayed that humans are gonna be kidnapped.
ReplyDeleteI think they do connect with xenophobia because there mainly talk about aliens or something about a distant planet in the future. In Spaceman by the Killers it talks about aliens taking him from is bed then taking his blood type. This connects to Twilight Zone because it about aliens running tests on humans.
ReplyDeleteThese songs connect with the concept of xenophobia because there talk about being scared of someone because they are different, "Must be those strangers that come every night". The songs deal with the fear of the unknown, "Carrying our highest hopes and our darkest fears". They are afraid of what they do not know about.
ReplyDeleteThese songs connect because they are all talking about space and the dark and the unknown.
ReplyDeleteThese songs do connect with xenophobia. A lot of these songs talk about outside life and other planets besides planet earth. Like the Mr. Spaceman song it talked about traveling to another planet in space. It also talks about being in the future and exploring new areas. Overall these songs talked about outside life and connects to the overall these of xenophobia.
ReplyDelete“Must be those strangers that come every night/Whose saucers shaped light put people up tight/Leave/ blue green footprints that glow in the dark/I hope they get home all right” this quote from The Byrds sounds nice and expresses concern and interest in aliens and their culture. “They left a strange impression in my head” this song describes an alien abduction and the fear of what happens when you escape your planet by being abducted. Some of the songs express fear or concern about aliens, alien abductions, and the possibilities of life on other planets. However, some songs seem to be more interested or longing for the aliens to come. There is a strange amount of hope that we are not alone in the universe. Even xenophobia about our government lying to us and hiding it, “But I promise you, my brother They're not here, they're not coming.” Even one song addresses the concept of fearing war with aliens, “cause I’m telling you...
ReplyDeletewere gonna need a little help tonight!” The songs are bizarre but people like them and relate to them. Because they are about fear of new things? Perhaps.
Some of the song lyrics connect to the idea of Xenophobia, like “Must be those strangers that come every night” in the song Mr. Spacemen, which is referring to aliens. I noticed that many people are naturally afraid of aliens, while others find them really interesting.
ReplyDeleteThese songs do connect to xenophobia, because it's all about being in outer space or just about outer space in general. They also talk about things in general that are way out there in space.
ReplyDeleteWhile we listened to some of the songs, I noticed that lots of them mentioned things that have to do with space. Space is something is often in science fiction stories. I saw that in the song Spaceman and Rocket Man. Some lyrics made me think of xenophobia like the lyric from the song They're Not Hear, They're Not Coming 'little man with a great big head.' It makes the alien seem lesser that the human. Other songs talked about fighting aliens like they're evil too.
ReplyDeleteMany of the songs and song lyrics we listened/observed do connect to our xenophobia unit. Many of the songs talk of foreign creatures and fear of these creatures. This fits our definition of xenophobia because it is defined as the fear of foreign organisms or creatures. As mentioned in Spaceman by Harry Nilsson, people were eager to become spacemen and explore space, but once they saw how these people were treated, the fantasy of space exploration was lost. The song tells how the spacemen were treated poorly by fellow Americans out of fear of foreign creatures which accurately represents xenophobia. Not only did the songs talk about fear of foreign creatures, but also the fear of foreign planets and what life would look like. In Elton John's "Rocket Man", the lyrics talk about the fear of creating a family and raising children on Mars. People are so used to life on Earth, they become scared of the foreign planets or life in the future. Although there are other songs and lyrics that relate to xenophobia more, Elton John's song does show a different side or perspective of xenophobia.
ReplyDeleteThese songs connect with the concept of xenophobia by exhibiting the concept of fear of aliens capturing them and doing experiments on them. They all talk about aliens being real or not real, but they could possibly come to earth and capture everyone. And one is about an astronaut who wants to go back to earth and would rather not see any aliens or anything like that.
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ReplyDeleteMr. Spaceman is actually the opposite of xenophobia. The lyrics say "I hope they get home all right. Hey Mr. Spaceman, won't you please take me along." There doesn't seem to be any fear towards Mr. Spaceman. In fact, the singer actually wishes the aliens well and hopes to return to their home with them. Zombies Ate My Neighbors accurately depicts xenophobia with the lyrics "So grab something sharp, find some cover." Obviously the singer is afraid of the zombies, to the point that he is willing to injure them.
ReplyDeleteAll these songs talk about alien abdication. "It started with a low light, Next thing I knew they ripped me from my bed And then they took my blood type
ReplyDeleteIt left a strange impression in my head." Spaceman (the killers). It also talks about time, like In the Year 2525. It seems like they are fascinated by outer space and aliens, but are also scared.
Some of the songs connect with xenophobia, such as the one about the zombies and the spacemen exploring. These lyrics can make a sense of fear in the general audience about what is outside of Earth, and who is outside of Earth.
ReplyDeleteAll of these songs seem to have a common theme of being afraid of creatures from different planets. The idea of xenophobia is shown when they talked about abductions. Although we don't know anything about creatures from another planet, people begin to make assumptions on them, like that they will poke and prod you after abducting you. These show the them of xenophobia because we are making assumptions about these aliens.
ReplyDeleteThis shows that even popular artists believe in aliens and they can expressed sifi in song. With lyrics like ¨Ground control to major tom¨ these showed people aliens and sifi. It opened the door to sifi in the music industry.
ReplyDeleteMost of these connect with the theme of xenophobia, except they aren’t always about aliens. Lots of the times they are about love, friendships etc. Like in the song “Rocketman” by Elton John, he says “burning out his fuse up here alone” which shows that he is lonely and afraid
ReplyDeleteThe songs given to us relate to Xenophobia in a couple different ways. The first being the supporting of the idea that there is a greater being above us and that they're watching us. The greatest example of this was in Mr. Spaceman by The Byrds where the lyrics talk about wanting to be abducted by "Mr. Spaceman".
ReplyDeleteThe second is the perspective of a person who has been abducted by aliens. The greatest example of this was in Spaceman by The Killers where the lyrics talk about being cut open and experimented on.
A lot of the songs connect with xenophobia because of the alien and zombie talk. They connect with the fact that we think of aliens as unknown creatures that we categorize into looking a certain way. The song about zombies proves that we are afraid of things we haven't even seen such as zombies.
ReplyDeleteAll the songs are about true extraterrestrials or astronauts which is interesting because xenophobia inst just about 'aliens'. All the songs are either scary or project the aliens as harmful to us. Lots of the songs are about abduction like the killers song which is strange but I guess thats a common alien fear. Music is interesting and can display some interesting messages.
ReplyDeleteSome of the songs could relate to the concept of xenophobia because of the ways that aliens and things are perceived in the song. An example of this would be in “zombies ate my neighbors” when they say “So grab something sharp, find some cover, kill the lights and nail the back door shut.“ In this song they are hiding from these things that they think are zombies, and scared of them even though they don’t really know what they are or how they behave. Lots of these songs portray the idea of zombie or alien eating humans or experimenting on them. We have this idea that these things are mean or evil and we are scared of them even though we don’t know them at all.
ReplyDeleteSome of these songs actually do relate to xenophobia. I say that because they lyrics of the song express space, scary kind of setting. Also how its not a good enviroment.
ReplyDeleteThese song I feel do connect with the concept of xenophobia heavily. A common theme of these songs is the artists singing about wanting to go back to normal. For example in the song Rocket Man the artists sing, "I miss the earth so much I miss my wife. It's lonely out in space" . This expresses his desire to return to how things were normally. This represents xenophobia because its fear of something different. These songs really bring up and show how people are afraid of what they don't know because I bet no one of these artists have ever actually been to where they are singing about, yet they are still saying for sure it's bad. This really shows our fear towards what we don't know or our xenophobia.
ReplyDeleteThese songs definitely do connect with xenophobia, but they bring a bit of an uplifting tone with them. In some of the fast songs regarding xenophobia, it becomes easier to "dance". Additionally, I feel that these songs connect to xenophobia, yet they don't involved aliens as much.
ReplyDeleteI feel like these sings do not connect to themes of Xenophobia, because these sings don't talk about fear of the unknown, they instead just talk about space and what they will face.
ReplyDeleteI feel like these sings do not connect to themes of Xenophobia, because these sings don't talk about fear of the unknown, they instead just talk about space and what they will face.
ReplyDeletethe song doesn't show any fear towards Mr.Spacemen but more of that they want to join him on his journey.
ReplyDeleteThe alien song lyrics are very interesting to me because I feel as if there is not so much a sense of xenephobia as there is curiosity. There is also a big sense of almost a cowboy ballad of being away from home and the blues of being alone in space such as in Elton Johns Rocket Man when he says, "I miss the earth so much, I miss my wife. It's lonely out in space". I feel that when it comes to music we see less of what they fear in space and more about their emotions of everything they are seeing, many mention the dark, cold, stars, etc.
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