Week 4 Blog Post
The song that I chose to listen to this week was, Great Speckled Bird, by Roy Acuff. I personally don't like country music really at all, and so I would most likely never listen to this song in my free time. What I did think was really interesting about this song was the symbolism behind it. I'm pretty sure that the "Great Speckled Bird" in this song is representing the church. Which I'm really surprised how popular this was since it talked about the church for basically the whole song. I was not expecting this song to have these lyrics because the music was really light hearted and fun, and than the lyrics were about church. I feel a lot of times church songs don't sound like that haha. I also really liked the usage of the instruments in this song. It would have a pretty steady beat and than out of no where a high pitched sliding sound would play. Overall I thought this was a pretty interesting song, with a cool meaning.
I like how you chose this song because a lot of the posts I read were about the song "In The Mood." I agree with you when you say you don't listen to country because I don't either. It is not my favorite. When I think of church music, I think of songs that are really slow and spiritual. When we listened to it in class, I was surprised this song was about church haha, Good job!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy listening to country music, so i thought listening to this was fun. It was definitely not the kind of country music I usually listen to, but it was cool to listen to one of the first country songs and how the whole genre got started! I agree with you on the "church" subject, it was a nice change of melody!!
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