欧美流行音乐赏析论文

欧美流行音乐赏析

论文

院系外语学院

专业商业英语

班级一班(122161101)

学生姓名

学号1221611025

任课教师

2013年12月20日

Country music《Love me tender》赏析

Lyrics:

love me tender,love me sweet;

never let me go.

you have made my life complete.

and i love you so.

love me tender,love me true;

all my dream fulfill,

for my darling, I love you.

and I always will.

love me tender,love me long;

take me to your heart,

for it's there that I belong,

and we'll never part.

love me tender,love me true;

all my dream fulfill,

for my darling, I love you.

and i always will.

love me tender,love me dear;

tell me your are mine,

i'll be yours through all the year,

till the end of time

love me tender,love me true;

all my dream fulfill,

for my darling, I love you.

and I always will.

Appreciation and analysis:

Love Me Tenderis a well-known country music, exactly,a Bluegrass music. It was composed and first sung by Elvis Presley—the hillbilly cat. The source of the inspiration is a movie in which Presley played the leading role. Elvis Presleywas known as the king of pop in Americaso far, who is also the most influential singer in America as well as in the world.Handsome physical appearance, having a gift for music, and excellent stage performance make him adored by people all over the world. He won many awards and the songs he

composed still enduring and popular after his death.Actually, he is a famous rock singer. His contribution is blending the Blues and country music in mountain rock and roll and formed a new and unique kind of music with distinct personality. However, in a sense, I would rather consider him as a famous country singer than a rock singer.

Generally speaking, as a interlude music of a movie, the song usually be considered to be matching with a particular movie. However, Love Me Tender is a exception. It is the interlude of the America movie—Blood Brothers in 1956, Presley played a costar in the movie and as the singer of the song. However, in another America movie—Touched By Love which is shown later, it was also adopted as the theme song.

As I mentioned in the first paragraph, Love Me Tender is a country music. As we know, country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today. It is about simple but strong human feelings, such as sweet love, sadness of disappointed love, good times, bad times, people’s longing for a warm and happy life, and so on. It tells real-life stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more and more complicated, it is good to listen to such kind of music about ordinary people.

As a bluegrass song, Love Me Tender gives listeners a feeling of original taste and flavor, delicacy, andpurity. It have the ability to pluck every listener’s silent heartstring. It reflects the common characteristics of country music. It is a very sweet, mellow and dulcet song. The voice of Presley is deep and attractive when he was singing this song, with smooth melody andbeautiful lyrics of the song, I always have a feeling of being placed in a fairy tale world every time when I listen to this song. And what impresses me most deeply is that there is lots of trill when Presley sang the song, which perfects the tone quality of the song and gives the song a special beauty.It sounds very slow, relaxing, and mild, which perfectly shows the soulful and a little bit blue feeling of the singer. Whenever I feel tired, happy or sad, it’s a good choice to listen to this song. What’s more, as far as I’m concerned, you can listen to it as a perfect lullaby when you feel that it is difficult for you to fall into sleep.

Love Me Tender has four paragraphs of lyrics totally, what’s more, one of the paragraphs is repeated twice. Each paragraph has the similar syntactic structure, which forms a beauty of regularity on structure and rhyme. The remarkable character of this song is that there are two ‘love me’s in the first line of each paragraph, each former ‘love me’ is followed by a ‘tender’, through

‘ love me tender’ to stress that ‘tender’ is just like a warm and safe harbor or a bunch of flame, which can drive away the darkness and coldness. And each latter ‘love me’ is described by different adjectives, which are sweet, true, long, dear. In the four paragraphs and six sings of this song, the occurrence number of ‘love me’ is 12, the occurrence number of ‘love you’ is 4. But actually the part of lyrics which are not contains these words also express this kind of affective and tenderness. The four paragraphs highly generalized the basic characters of love: tender, sweet, true, long, and deep. Of course, love contains other