Assignment Task: Listen to "Growing Sideways" by Noah Kahan and "This Is Me Trying" by Taylor Swift. After listening to both songs, you will then answer the questions based on TEXTUAL ANALYSIS! Therefore, you are looking at the lyrics ONLY not the instrumentals!
Two web pages for a bit of background information on the albums.
Article: How Taylor Swift reset her image with Folklore
Article: Noah Kahan took the time of year 'no one really likes' and made it into 'Stick Season,' an album anyone could love
a. When listening to Swift's "This Is Me Trying" who is this "you" she refers to and what textual evidence leads you to make this claim?
b. When looking at Kahan's "Growing Sideways", what does the title mean in relationship to the song? Why would Kahan select this title?
c. What are both songs about respectively? What messages are they conveying? Are there any themes the songs share? Are there no comparisons to be made at all?
d. Throughout the semester we have discussed humanity and how it has shifted overtime. If these songs were to be analyzed 40 years from now what would people believe/argue about the 2020s? What historical context would be necessary to understand these songs?