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Country Music Analysis

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Background music plays a really important role in today’s film industry. The music supplement to the film, in order to create a more complete work. Composers write their music on the basis of the story line and director put the music in the right spot, in order to draw audience’s attention and emotion into the film. Moreover, lyrics will bring out the movie plot and presents people’s feeling of the movie. There is a good example, which called “City of Stars”. It is a song from a musical romantic comedy film, La La Land, composed by Justin Hurwitz and the lyrics were provided by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. “La La Land” tells a love story which a jazz pianist and an aspiring actress, who meet and fall in love while pursuing their dreams. However, when time goes by, the reality keeps them farther and farther away. The “City of Stars” reflects a very mixed feelings, such as the pictures, the song, and the latest moment. There seems a thousand words of regret which cannot be said. Even …show more content…

when listening to the songs, the low pitched male voice drifted into the ear, and the pictures hits my mind, which are dance, tears and memories. “City of stars, there’s so much that I can’t see”. When the last imaginary disappears, everything was just like a dream. “Who knows, is this the start of something wonderful and new, or one more dream that I cannot make true”? Once dreams meet the reality, people will awake from their dream and face the real situation. Through the lyrics and the music tone, it leaves the significant memory for the audience and draws people into the sadness love story. The lyrics bring people go depth into the storyline and makes people think more about the internal meaning of the film. I think the songs really fits to the movie. Hearing the songs will bring back the movie scenes, and due to the movie’s storyline, the music in the film become extraordinary important and make people feel really

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