Reflection

On the billboard top 100 chart, “Throw It In the Bag” by Fabolous and The-Dream is ranked at number nineteen. The content of the song is based mainly on the idea of money. The two singers/rappers sing about the idea of no limits on money. They buy what they want when they want regardless of price. In a way the rappers are showing signs of haughtiness, by saying price tags are not for them, “I’m the one with them ones/ F*** the price tag, just throw it in the bag”, money sets no limitations for the two rappers, because of the amount that they make. The fact that this song is ranked at number nineteen shows that America is materialistic. We favor songs that talk about nice clothes, cars, and houses even though many people do not have that particular lifestyle, “I keep her in Louboutin, Louis Vuitton/Gucci down to her feet, yup, just like me”. Gucci and Louie Vuitton are extremely expensive brands; dressing in the clothes is a way of showing materialism by needing the top of the line clothing. In this song the gender role plays an important part. The rappers sing about how they earn the money, and how they spend it on the women. It shows that they go along with the theory of men being the provider of the household. In this particular song success is not measured by how many record one sells, but by the amount of money that they make singing. The song is written in first person, it is a story of how the narrator spends money on unnecessary items, to flaunt that he has money.
The second song that I choose is also on the billboard top one hundred songs. “Good Girls Go Bad” by Cobra Starship and Leighton Meester made it’s was to number twenty-two on the charts. The song is a stereotype of rich girls who fall for the bad guy “I know your type/You’re daddy’s little girl”. There are two singers, a boy and a girl, who each give their opinion of the night and each other. The song is sung in first person, by both of the people. In one of the lines Cobra Starship uses the alliteration to show that he can make any girl like him not matter the type of girl, “She was so shy”. The girl was so shy but he is going to make her become a bad girl by the end of the night. In this song as well as “Throw it in the Bag” gender plays a big role. The song is sung mostly by Cobra Starship, a male, who believes that since he is a considered a bad boy he can get any girl. The idea that America has voted this song number twenty-two shows that as a population, we enjoy songs that tell a story. The song tells the story about a shy girl who plays by the rules. She is sitting with her friends, when this troublesome guy walks up to her and makes her bad for the night.
“Already Gone” by Kelly Clarkson has made its way to number twenty-three on the billboard top one hundred songs. The song is about a relationship that went bad. Everything in the relationship seemed well, but it was not working out for one person. Kelly Clarkson loves the man she was with, she loves him enough to give him away, “Looking at you makes it harder/But I know that you’ll find another/That doesn’t always make you want to cry”. This song shows that America enjoys listening to songs about love and hardships. The gender of Kelly Clarkson plays a somewhat important role in the song. Because Kelly Clarkson is a woman it shows that women are just as likely to make hard decisions in their lives as well as men. Women are just as likely to end a relationship if they feel as if there is a disconnection between their partner and themselves. The repletion of the line “already gone” is used to show that nothing can change her mind. She is already out of the relationship and nothing is going to bring her back into a relationship that will not work out.