For
the purpose of selling her song, “Woman in the White House” seems like it would
sell. It covers a modern issue and has an appropriate tune to go along with it.
That coupled with the way she sings it can be hard to determine what exactly
she is saying at certain points in her song. Most women believe that it is time
for a woman to be elected president and have strong feelings on the matter. By writing
a song based on that feeling you would expect that song to sell. I have no idea
if this song is actually selling well, but based on my limited knowledge of
that market I would expect this song to sell rather well. Although the song
seems to stem from good intentions, it does not actually help the cause of
getting a woman elected president. Some may even argue that it hinders the
cause.
This
song hinders the cause of getting a woman elected president because it furthers
the stereotype of women. It also does not offer any real reason why a woman
would make a better president than a man. It makes multiple claims as to why a
woman should be elected, but does not actually show that. The facts she
provides seem to indicate that women shouldn’t be elected. The image on the CD
cover detracts from her message, although it does help sell it. Then there is
the problem that the grammar used in the song does make it sound good, but it
doesn’t make much sense when written out. The phrase “well we like to spend
money, but not money we ain’t got” doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. From my
own personal experiences women tend to spend money they obtained via their
significant other. So that saying alone tends to not be true. Most of the
phrases in this song are also similar in that they either don’t hold much truth
to them, or are not a reason to elect an official.
-Codie
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Lyrics
obtained from http://moozikportal.blogspot.com/2012/11/sheryl-crow-woman-in-white-house-lyrics.html
Hey Cody, you have loads of good points in your post. I honestly could not make it through the song because I don’t like country music, so I commend you in your ability to do so. Anyway, I felt that she really does want a woman president so she tried to create this song in order to show that through her music to her fans. When you say how you don’t understand the “well we like to spend money, but not money we ain’t got” what I got out of it was that the United States spends money that we don’t have on things like exported goods from other countries when we could just be creating our own products to sell to maybe cut back on spending. Also, as a girl, I like spending money… no doubt about that, but we don’t like spending money we don’t have. It’s really weird. Besides the fact I felt the complete opposite you did, I still like the way you analyzed the song. You put a lot of thought into it.
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Nice post Cody. I do agree with you that this song could hinder trying to elect a female president, although it does or not we may never know. The way she sings this song does help sell the song, but it does kind of detract from the overall theme. Why she chose to sing about this matter isn't hard to figure out- we've never had a female president. We preach equality as a nation, yet we haven;t had many major female political figures, nor anyone of a minority. Crow singing this song does help to get the message out there, and it could help the cause by making people think about it and becoming more aware, or it could hinder the cause by making people take the idea as a joke, and not seriously. Until we have a woman running for president, we may never know. Not that we could attribute the election of a female president entirely to one overly-banjoed Sheryl Crow song. But all-in-all, I agree with you.
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