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Where Is The Love? - By The Black Eyed Peas (About The Singers/Songwriters…
Where Is The Love? - By The Black Eyed Peas
Rhyming Lyrics
People killin' people
dyin'
Children hurtin', I hear them
cryin'
Negative images is the main
criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than
bacteria
Every time I look up, every time I look
down
No one's on a common
ground
About The Singers/Songwriters
The Black Eyed Peas, which is an American musical group, wrote and sung this protest song, 'Where Is The Love?'
This band,The Black Eyed Peas, sees all the hardships and issues in our current world and asks one simple question in this song "Where Is The Love?"
What they are trying to question is that: "Why isn't our world the way it's supposed to be?"
The message they are trying to promote is that when there is love in our world, there wouldn't be so much hate, violence and anger everywhere.
About The Song
This song talks about violence, terrorism, gangs, racism, hate, and anger.
The inspiration for writing this song is because of the Islamic terrorist attacks in downtown Manhattan's World Trade Center during September 11, 2001, which killed thousands of innocent people.
It is also looks at the negative impact of hypocrisy, disrespect, lies, materialism, selfishness, media, and the lack of values.
AFOREST Techniques
Rhetorical Questions
Example 2:
Would you turn the other cheek again?
Example 3:
All races, y'all don't like what I'm sayin'?
Example 1:
New days are strange, is the world insane?
Opinions
One opinion that The Black Eyed Peas included was that racism and terrorism is bad and that we should all avoid it, instead of just thinking of the good things only for yourself, like earning money.
Another opinion that The Black Eyed Peas included in this song was that mankind should spread love and peace instead of hate and anger not only to your own race, but other races too.
Symbolic/ Meaningful Lyrics
Example #1
Lyric:
Every time I look up, every time I look down
No one's on a common ground
Meaning Behind The Lyrics:
The message that The Black Eyed Peas are trying to put forth to the society is that no matter where you go, no one in our world will be in agreement, but instead against one another.
Example #2
Lyric:
As I'm gettin' older y'all people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin'
Meaning Behind The Lyrics:
The message that The Black Eyed Peas are trying to express is that nowadays, in our modern society, people are too materialistic making money is all that is on their mind.
What We Think About The Song
We also believe that the song is telling people to not only just love and do the right thing to ourselves and others.
We find this song quite catchy and upbeat. It is a nice song that catches the attention of many people of any age, including us.