A Lot Like Christmas Song Analysis
Daryl Batt- It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Unfortunately Is it just me or are the holidays in America becoming more and more commercialized? The original purposes for holidays are swept under the rug and it is all about what we can get. It was November 9th and I was driving home from school, flipping through radio stations when I heard the Christmas carols. I yelled, “NO!” and completely shut the radio off. It was not even Thanksgiving yet and they were playing Christmas music! Since Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, I was a little put off by this. Why are they playing these songs already? What about Thanksgiving? Heck, what about Hanukkah? Why aren’t there Thanksgiving carols? That is when I decided I was going to write
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So here’s to Jesus Christ who saved our lives. It’s something we all try to ignore… Christmas must be something more.” In my song, I briefly touch on that year with my family, but I focus more on people as a whole. I ended up using the melody and a few of the lyrics from It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas and rewrote what the song was about. The creative process of rewriting this song was actually a lot harder than I had expected. When writing lyrics to another song, you have to keep the number of syllables close or exactly to the original and also the emphasis on certain syllables similar to the original. Rhyming is also very important in Christmas carols, so what I could say and how I could phrase it got limited to the words that rhymed with each …show more content…
This song not only was an outlet for me, but it also taught me how to stay motivated when writing a song as it gets tough. I had major writer’s block some days and would have to figure out how to get around it. Performing it live for the class also helps me in the future because the more I am able to perform in front of people, the more confident and comfortable I get do so. This year I am spending the holidays with my parents in the Springs and we are going to give each other memories instead of gifts. I am really not Scrooge, I just want to spend the holidays with the people I love and that is all I
So here’s to Jesus Christ who saved our lives. It’s something we all try to ignore… Christmas must be something more.” In my song, I briefly touch on that year with my family, but I focus more on people as a whole. I ended up using the melody and a few of the lyrics from It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas and rewrote what the song was about. The creative process of rewriting this song was actually a lot harder than I had expected. When writing lyrics to another song, you have to keep the number of syllables close or exactly to the original and also the emphasis on certain syllables similar to the original. Rhyming is also very important in Christmas carols, so what I could say and how I could phrase it got limited to the words that rhymed with each …show more content…
This song not only was an outlet for me, but it also taught me how to stay motivated when writing a song as it gets tough. I had major writer’s block some days and would have to figure out how to get around it. Performing it live for the class also helps me in the future because the more I am able to perform in front of people, the more confident and comfortable I get do so. This year I am spending the holidays with my parents in the Springs and we are going to give each other memories instead of gifts. I am really not Scrooge, I just want to spend the holidays with the people I love and that is all I