Song Lyrics And Stereotypes

Give Me All Your Love from the game The World Ends With You

Give Me All Your love:

Give me all your love... 

Watch me with your scary eyes 
Please me with your silly touch. Come on 
Keep your eyes on me always 
I break it down 
I'm not the same 

Feel Me when you come inside 
Touch me when you want me anytime 
Keep your eyes on me always 
Don't wake me up 'till the morning light 

"Get up on your feet, move your body, bring me the passion" 
Give me your nasty hands. Come on now. I'm getting over you 
"Get up on your feet, move your body, bring me the passion" 
Give me your nasty hands. It's you. You can set me free 

Give me all your love 
Give me all your love 
Don't give it to someone else 
Give me all your love 
Give me all your love 
Don't share it with someone else 

"I'm sending all my love, all my love for you" 
All I want is your love and soul 
"I'm sending all my love, all my love for you" 
All I want is your love and soul 

Give me all your love... 

Treat me right as I do for you 
Drive me crazy all night long 
Keep your eyes on me always 
Take me up to the heaven 

"Get up on your feet, move your body, bring me the passion" 
Give me your nasty hands. Come on now. I'm getting over you 
"Get up on your feet, move your body, bring me the passion" 
Give me your nasty hands. It's you. You can set me free 

Give me all your love 
Give me all your love 
Don't give it to someone else 
Give me all your love 
Give me all your love 
Don't share it with someone else 

I'm sending you all my love. 
I want your love. I want your love and soul.

Analysis

This song is presenting the stereotype of women being dependent of men, as well the sexualization of women, portraying with this the stereotype with the idea that women are to serve men (in bed and house) while men has to work (sustain the house/family). As follows I'm going to explain in which parts we can see this happening.

In the title of the text, the first line and all the time they repeat "Give me all your love" is the part where it's presented both the stereotype and the sexualization. For knowing this we need to know the meaning of Give and the real meaning of "love".

First, the meaning of give that we can get for this sentences are (from oxford dictionary):

1. To express how greatly one wants something
2. Allow some one to experience something

As the first meaning we can see how she (the singer) wants "all the love" from the man, with this we get to the sense of need of the mans "love".

As the second meaning we can appreciate the dependence of the man in contrast of the woman, she needs to ask the man to give her his "love" and the man decides if he give it or not.

As why I'm saying "love" is because, informally speaking, when one says "making love" is referring to having a sexual intercourse. With that said the real meaning of love in the song is to have a sexual intercourse.

When the song says "...with your scary eyes" it's presenting in another way the power that he has over her. He is so powerful that she is felling fearing because of him.

For the other part when the song says "Please me with your silly touch", it's alluding to the power that the man has over the woman; as well the sexualization. She needs her to have pleasure and depends of him. An important thing is the meaning of "Silly": Not having serious purpose or value, with this is presented the null/less value he has over her, while she needs him for pleasure.

The song continues and the stereotypes and justification as well, but since this is a short work I think the evidence shown is enough to understand the stereotypes and ideas present in the song.

Writing Task - Blog

The Internet Good or Bad?

Whenever we talk about the internet slang there are always hot debates about if it brings good language to us or bad language, normally the teens versus the old fashion parents and linguist, but who cares about linguist anyway?

I do like getting philosophical, so I'm going to get a little bit, it is necessary.

When we talk about if it “brings good language” or “bad language”, what are we talking about? Because for someone that idea could be that is good if we adapt the language to the necessities of our time and for a linguist could be that the language have to follow the norm of the dictionary. For me, its going to be a little bit in both senses, in other words as long as it follows the necessary to be understandable (the correct or understandable use of syntax) and it adapts to our time it's going to be a benefit to the language.

Now, with that clear I'm going to show the language (obviously the slang one, not the norm language) used in the internet.

There are lot of words, letters and (even) numbers that have been “translated” to the internet slang. But what is this "internet slang"?

The internet slang is, obviously, the language used in the internet and in the social media that involves internet and writing; it's logical to ignore the speaking part of the language out of this slang, because if you talk (orally) by the internet it's only a mean to get to the other person (such as Skype or phone calls, etc...). So, the internet slang, is (in a very basically way, I think) the abbreviation of words; almost omitting all the vowels or using the initial letters of the word.

There are many words in the internet slang, such as:

- R (Are), U (You), N (And)...

- 2 (To or Too), 4 (for)

-Srsly (Seriously)

 

-OMG (Oh My God)

-LOL (Laugh Out Loud)

- Yolo (You Only Live Once)

- Etc..

Something that we can't deny is the power of the internet, that power can be seen in various ways, but since this entry is about language I'll focus on the language. From the seven words and letters that are above (I think that is logical to exclude the numbers in this), four of them have been accepted in the dictionary as words.

But, the hole point of this is, are this words and changes a benefit to the language or not?

Even though I said a “definition” to “brings good language” and to “bad language” it's difficult to decide when its a benefit or not. So I'm going to break down the definition.

First we have the idea of the syntax of the word(The word has the necessary to be understandable, the correct or understandable use of the syntax). This idea is a complex one, because it's more a thing of habit.

I could appreciate that (and I think you had the same experience) in my first years of internet I read things like “gg”, “gl”, “wp”, “g2g”, etc... and I didn't know what the hell they meant, but then I asked or search in the web the meaning (urban dictionary always help, it's a little informal but it helps). But if we see the commons thing, syntactically speaking, I think there's only one aspect that remarks in this words and that is that they follow the order of the complete word. Such as you can see above, Yolo and Srsly(among other words) they "follow" the syntax of the originally word. For one part Yolo has the letter of each word from You Only Live Once. For another, Srsly is the contraction of the word Seriously, omitting the vowels.

As a summary, we can say that the internet slang doesn’t bring a bad language in a syntax way, it "follows" the original one and, also, it's more of a thing of habit;reading and writing it.

So, now that we have that we can get a question that is completely related with the next part of the definition. Why does the internet slang exist? Or better said, Why is it the way it is? (Contraction and omission of vowels).

If you want to know: why is that question related to the definition? We need to now how is our time and global life style, we can't talk about our time with out knowing about it. So, for the sake of not getting boring I'll do this fast... Basically our time is a “fast one”, we don't have time to waste, we are “pressured” by time, you know like “fast food”, “instant noodles”, we also can see this in the news, if there is something important they are there, everything that is important in that day it's going to be in the news, normally instantly and so on. We live in a “hurry up” world, a “fast pace” world. That is our time.

The relation between the internet slang and our time is that is a fast way of writing. I think all of us have heard (or said) that “teens type so fast”, I think in almost all cases if we compare a teen with an adult the teen will type faster, he is more used to it. So, the society has made us “faster” we need to do all things faster, there is no time to lose. That's why I think this type of slang appeared in the internet, being the fastest mean of communication, and that's because the world made us that way, our time modified the way we use the language in the internet.

As a closing idea, I think that is absolutely correct (according to the definition) that we say that the internet, and all the things that involves it (like social media), brings a good language, or a good modification to our language, it adapts completely to our time... or we adapt it to our time?

Rationale:


I wrote about the modification that have occurred in the written language because of the internet media. I chose that topic because it is related to the unit we are studying in class: Language and Mass Media, but my principal reason for this is because I wanted to analyse how internet has changed our written language. I always hear that the internet and social media bring us bad things so I wanted to “prove” the opposite.

My target audience is common internet users. I wrote this text as a blog, because I think that it's a good way to approach them; since they are an active part of this media. In the text we can see it in:

“I could appreciate that (and I think you had the same experience) in my first years of internet I read things like “gg”... ”

When I mention the reader as you and common internet words, it is clearly making the point that this work was made to users that have lived that experience.

I used a neutral language (the most complex words are “Syntax” and “Slang”) because one the major purposes of this text is that the reader can show or explain to someone that the internet brings a good language to us. This can be well seen when I explain about the contraction of the words: “For one part Yolo has the letter of each word from You Only Live Once. For another, Srsly is the contraction of the word Seriously, omitting the vowels.” I put the original words that are part of the “internet word” in black, so it can be more understandable. Also this part is not explain in a complex way, it is very plain and simple, so anyone can understand it.