Week 8
For this week I decided to pick the song, "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" by, James Brown. This song focuses a lot on the instruments, it has a lot of long breaks in between verses and sometimes even lines. The song is almost four and a half minutes long and without these pauses, I bet it would only be around three minutes long maybe even shorter.
The song is definitely something that I could hear being played whilst the credits roll on an old world war 2 era movie (not necessarily focused on world war 2).
A lot of the lyrics in this song are about Papa doing a lot of the new dances. From what I can tell it sounds like this is coming from an older person during the time since it is told from the point of view of Papa. But it is him saying that he can do all the cool things that all the young-ins are doing nowadays. Although I am no expert in the slang of that time, it sounds like what an old person would say when they are trying to be hip and imitate what the kids are saying. It sounds like the equivalent of my parents saying something like, "Yo hows it hanging dawg this new jam is litti". Every time I hear an adult say anything remotely similar to this a little bit of me dies on the inside.
The song is definitely something that I could hear being played whilst the credits roll on an old world war 2 era movie (not necessarily focused on world war 2).
A lot of the lyrics in this song are about Papa doing a lot of the new dances. From what I can tell it sounds like this is coming from an older person during the time since it is told from the point of view of Papa. But it is him saying that he can do all the cool things that all the young-ins are doing nowadays. Although I am no expert in the slang of that time, it sounds like what an old person would say when they are trying to be hip and imitate what the kids are saying. It sounds like the equivalent of my parents saying something like, "Yo hows it hanging dawg this new jam is litti". Every time I hear an adult say anything remotely similar to this a little bit of me dies on the inside.
Hey Drew! I enjoyed reading your blog about "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" by James Brown. I haven't hear the song personally, but after reading your post I think i'll go listen to it. I enjoyed the way that you described both the instruments used and the lyrics. It paints a pretty clear picture of the song. It sounds Interesting! Great Job!
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