Friday, September 23, 2011

Been to hell

For my cultural analysis, i did a song called "Been to Hell" by the band Hollywood Undead. This song's main message is: "people come to Hollywood and expect to achieve greatness and fame, but are unable to accomplish this for reasons of drugs, temptation, and apathy." They go against the dominant ideology in this song and with some of their other songs. In this song they show from their point of view of what Hollywood is really like behind the scenes because this is an experience that happened to them. The ideology behind this is opportunity.

Opportunity is the ideology of this. In their music video, they show a woman happy as can be in Hollywood. But as time elapses, she's in a bad situation and is sad by this because she never expected to be in that kind of situation. People have a belief that Hollywood will make you realize your hopes and dreams. Not really. This song tells that you shouldn't expect greatness and fame, but also look at the real aspect behind it all. The hell that it came really be.

Something that they mention in the song is "You thought these streets were paved in gold but they're dirty and dark." This shows how people's belief about Hollywood is different from the real perspective that they have experienced. And from the last line of the chorus, they mention "Welcome to a world where dreams become nightmares." They, in some aspect, welcome people who came to Hollywood, a place you thought was great, can actually make your nightmares a reality. It's not all glory and fame. Rather dark and nightmare-like.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

When people think of Hollywood, they think about happiness and celebrity getting tons of money. Fame is what it is. People doesn't think further than that. What celebrities really have to go through. You see, they only look at you on the outside, not the inside.

Ron Engracia said...

This makes people think about how people can go to hollywood and just let go and have a little fun. but really it shows that its not all about having fun, but it shows that hollywood has its drama and how hard you need to work to get to hollywood fame.