The Human Condition Analysis

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“Hop out the four-door with the .44, it was one, two , three and four. Chillin’ in the corridor, your dad is forty-four… Your girl knows I’ve got the sauce, no ketchup. Just sauce, raw sauce. Boom, yo, gah. The ting goes skrrrahh, pap, pap, ka-ka-ka. Skibiki-pap-pap, and a pu-pu-pudrrrr-boom.” Currently, this is the most viewed lyrics to a song on www.rapgenius.com. With songs like the one previously shown being some of the music most listened to, it is hard to find music of good quality with real meaning these days. Jon Bellion, an artist, who analyzes every part of his craft released his debut album on June 10, 2016. “The Human Condition” isn’t your typical album; picture a Disney soundtrack without the movie. Even though his debut album …show more content…
Instead of playing out a lot of his music, he collects samples and plays them out to perfection. More specifically, on the track “Guillotine” his beatboxing can be heard throughout the record and there are different little vocal chops/samples that can be heard through the song’s entirety. Also, on the song “All Time Low”, his most well known song, he samples Michael Jackson’s scream in, “The Way You Make Me Feel”; he pitches the scream and then adds it in certain places to give the song more movement. He does this because it adds a certain feel to his music that hasn’t really been heard. Also, Jon tends to use his vocals to support the live instrumentation. He will use instruments as the main structure and foundation, while his vocals are added to become the icing on the cake. This tends to be what distinguishes Jon Bellion from the majority of other artists. He holds a true, humble passion in his heart for creating the perfect …show more content…
His lyrics throughout “The Human Condition” are very simple, leaving room for many interpretations. Near the end of the album, the lyricism in the track “Guillotine” gives the catchy lyrics one can sing along to, but they also carry a deeper and darker meaning. Specifically, “The secrets you tell me, I’ll take to my grave. There’s bones in my closet, but you hang stuff anyway. And if you have nightmares, we’ll dance on the bed. I know that you’ll love me, even when I lose my head, guillotine.” Next, “Morning in America”, a song about our society’s expectations and how even the best of artists aren’t exempt from evading those expectations. Specifically, “We’re all secretly out of control. Nobody knows me and my friends are all addicted to porn, they can’t keep a girlfriend, because the great expectations got all of us imitating and we’re secretly out of control.” So, as good as Jon Bellion is with the beats in all of his music, he provides lyrics with a lot of depth and real meaning, which leaves the listener euphoric, with a feeling of