Please could you help with song choices for an English assessment

[JMSA]

‘Morning all
My teen has an English assignment and I’d love to hear your song choices (the assignment is for English but with a music theme!). I thought about The Drugs Don’t Work by the Verve, but I’m not sure. Ideally it would be quite a ‘meaty’ song so that we can really analyse the lyrics!
Thanks very much

Liking your comment while sitting here in my Levellers T shirt 😁

I did a year long module about 14th century Italian religion at uni because of my love for the Divine Comedy (the band).

Meh, lots of teenagers like older music. I certainly did.

Criminal by Fiona Apple

Heroin - Velvet Underground
Golden Brown- The Stranglers

Another day in paradise

Leave a Light On by Tom Walker about addiction

Hope Street.

Just the one by the levellers
Ava adore - smashing pumpkins
Lithium by nirvana
and the manics album - the holy bible has lots of food for thought

If you want a singer that is contemporary
listen to Sofia isella. Very talented and very dark!

I heard it was about chemotherapy too, my dear friend died of cancer when that song was out and that was my understanding at the time. All these years later I still can't stomach listening to it. 'like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown'. I think of it whenever i hear of someone terminally ill.

Dylan! He won the Nobel Prize for it….
(suggest listening to “Hurricane” with her as a great example. She probably should pick something current that she loves as others have rightly said, but it’s a really great lyric and a fascinating story).

Such beautiful lyrics.

Lady Saw, Chat to mih back d

Calypso Rose, Leave me alone o

I also agree with the suggestion of MSP and their album 'The Holy Bible'. Some of the songs are tough going though. For example, 'Archives of Pain' looks at the glorification of serial killers, Their performance of 'Faster' on Top of the Pops had a huge number of complaints due to James wearing a balaclava.

Having said that, the reimagining (and revamping) of Falling in Reverse's 'The drug in me is you' and 'I am not a vampire' are interesting, especially when compared to the original versions. The feeling is so different despite being essentially the same songs. The original videos and new videos also have a completely different tone.

I do agree that it is important that your teen picks a song(s) that speaks to them.

Prison Song by System of a Down.

Thank you by Jamelia
Where is the love
Love is a losing game
A Team by Ed Sheeran

Don’t be silly. The songs are the starting point, an idea. The hard work is yet to come! She’d never have known about these older titles if not for the wonderful suggestions on here.
Thankfully the miserable and chronically unhelpful are in the minority.

Kneecap - C.E.A.R.T.A.
Its in Irish but there's a lot to analyse.

It was about Richard Ashcrofts Dad dying, but yes - now the drugs don't work, they just make you worse... Its a really sad song.

Sheriff Fatman - Carter USM

Kneecap is a great suggestion. So much to analyse. Parful is about raving/drugs bringing young people together during The Troubles.

I’m bookmarking this post in case my own DC ever has a similar assignment as there are some brilliant suggestions here.

For the first assignment, ‘Just a Girl’ by No Doubt might be a good one!

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