Till I Collapse Essay
There are a couple of songs that I can always count on to push me through every workout or tough times in my life, but my favorite song has to be Till I Collapse by Eminem. The beat, lyrics, and the emotional voice of Eminem are all what makes this song my favorite. This song has a meaning to it that I could connect with. According to Aaron Copland, people listen to different types of music and he divided the types into three planes. Reading all three types I found that I belonged in the expressive plane, just by reading this quote "all music has an expressive power, some more and some less, but that all music has a certain meaning behind the notes." I listen to Till I Collapse every time I'm feeling tired, down or about to quit from doing anything, but mostly it is like a pre-workout pump-up
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The courses and language were too hard for me to take all at once. I was still young so I thought I was always right and my parents were wrong. Due to my ignorance, I would argue with them all the time about leaving school. One day after school I turned on my iPod then buried my face in my pillow and started shuffling through songs until, like a miracle, my lifeline came in the form of Eminem’s “Till I Collapse”: “Sometimes you just feel tired, feel weak. When you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. Gotta find that inner strengthand just pull that shit outta you and get that motivation, to not give upand not be a quitter. No matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse."Those words described exactly how I felt at the moment, and it made me realize how I couldn’t give up so easily. I had to make my parents proud of me, and I knew I had to step up and persevere through challenges in a new environment. Ever since that day, I started listening to Till I Collapse
The courses and language were too hard for me to take all at once. I was still young so I thought I was always right and my parents were wrong. Due to my ignorance, I would argue with them all the time about leaving school. One day after school I turned on my iPod then buried my face in my pillow and started shuffling through songs until, like a miracle, my lifeline came in the form of Eminem’s “Till I Collapse”: “Sometimes you just feel tired, feel weak. When you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. Gotta find that inner strengthand just pull that shit outta you and get that motivation, to not give upand not be a quitter. No matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse."Those words described exactly how I felt at the moment, and it made me realize how I couldn’t give up so easily. I had to make my parents proud of me, and I knew I had to step up and persevere through challenges in a new environment. Ever since that day, I started listening to Till I Collapse