By showing the harmful effects they face reveals that Ocean has empathy for them and their experience as a rich powerful white American. Ocean is actually grateful for experiencing his upbringing as a lower class black man. The tempo is relatively slow and the pace mocks the pace at which you would experience life if you were to be high this is an educated guess.
This makes sense since the super rich kids are doing drugs, smoking weed and drinking throughout the song. Its almost inevitable to be exposed to these types of drugs at such a young age because of how rich and powerful they are.
Growing up in a close black family he always had a strict parental figure who was there to teach him right and wrong. Ocean feels so much sympathy for these people because he understands how important having someone that genuinely cares about them and loves them is. Ironically money and opportunity which seem to be the sought after goals in life also lead to the loss of love.
The juxtaposition from the beginning of the first verse to the beginning of the second is significant in the relation of lavish lifestyles to the emotion effects of the loss or rather never receiving love. This reveals how the lack of love in his life makes it feel as if living is pointless all together.
This is another negative effect from having the abundance of money and opportunity that these kids struggle immensely with that Ocean is grateful for not have experiencing during his childhood. Ocean recreates this image of the frowned upon rich white kids by humanizing them and saying that they have the same emotions and need for love as everyone else. Ocean feels bad for them rather than envy or are bitter towards them because of the obstacles he had to face throughout his life as a black man that these kids avoided.
This shows that he appreciates his blackness and is proud of the fact that he had to overcome limitations that were set up for him the moment he was born and was able to receive genuine love. Rather than talk about how awful rich white people are thought to be, he reveals that the fact they can succeed so easily is a not necessarily a good thing with immense consequences.
Essentially, what Ocean is describing is that having too much of everything is just as harmful as having too little. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content For my third and final analytical public writing assignment for my Black Music in America class I tried to find another song with a different message than Sir Duke and Bad Religion.
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