Nile Coyle
Ms. Reef
ENC1101
3/2/2015
Dance Apocalyptic
This song, which was written by Janelle Monae, is a song that effectively conveys how this current generation is slowly losing its personality and uniqueness. The “apocalypse” is an extended metaphor for how the creativity of our generation is slowly dying because of technology. Instead of going out and socializing with people and seeing the world around us we’re hunched over, looking at our phones, not even paying attention. I think what Monae is trying to say is that because of this soon there will be no interaction whatsoever and eventually we will be living a life that wouldn’t even be worth being called a life. Her music video has a lot of references to the apocalypse that is mentioned in the bible. This is the main way of her preaching her idea of how life as we used to know it is coming to an end. One of which is a short pause in her music video to show a weather woman making a report about how there is a swarm of locusts and extreme weather all over the globe. These are both signs of the apocalypse in its early stages. Later on in the video she mentions how there are zombies rising, this is a direct reference to Zechariah 14:12; And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. This entry is meant to add to the running metaphor of the Apocalypse. Another reference that she makes is the four horseman of the apocalypse. At the very end of the video four guys ride off on their motorcycles into the distance, this is supposed to represent the beginning of the apocalypse. The metaphor is used by Janelle to
