The Lyrical Analytics Club
A podcast for students by students where musical artistry and literary brilliance brings us together for conversations about how musical mediums reflect social movements and global phenomena! It is a space for our differences to enlighten and expand how we send and receive sounds in ourselves and others.
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Episodes
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Here we travel to La isla del encanto with two artists that speak on letting women be who they are.
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
In this episode we look into Swift’s “The Man” and Beyoncé’s “Who Runs The World” and the masculine superiority in society and its effect of women.
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
This week we took a trip to the Philippines with artist Bamboo with the song “Himala”. We took an impromptu approach in connecting Brazilian artist Chico Buarque’s song “Apesar de Voce”. Best episode ever!
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
In this song, Chico Buarque’s “Apesar de Voce” is a song during the military reign in Brazil where he expresses revolutionary patriotism against oppression with an emphasis on love rather than hate.
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
In this episode we speak about the beautiful love story of French singer, Indilla. This songs is about a couple who got together young and separated due to war. While the song may appear sad and negative, the beauty of lingering love unites us all across time and space.
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
In this episode we analyze the incredible lyrical trifecta of Taylor Swift’s “Cardigan”, “Betty” and “August”. She creates a story of mistakes, growth, and reconciliation and how these lessons are universal concepts that transcend time.
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
In this episode we discuss how Style’s lyrical juxtaposition of concepts and metaphors reflect deep emotional gyres and what happens to lyrical interpretations when the audience fixes it according to their own contexts.
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Analyzing Swift’s lyrics to her song "The Lakes", we see how social turns affect art and how we express meaning of the world around us. She uses setting and rhetorics coupled with brilliant uses of poetic elements to romanticize the dichotomy of feelings of frustration, serenity, isolation, and peace all in one brilliant written and sonic artistry.