Blog #7

A work of art I have enjoyed would be Epik High's Over. The first time I heard this song was last year and I really enjoyed not only listening to the music itself but the lyrical meaning of the song. I am a big fan of Epik High because their songs always have meaning. Epik High used to be a very popular Korean group so they produced Korean songs. One of the members from this group is a Korean-American student who graduated from Stanford University so the lyrics that he writes have a lot of literary and figurative meaning. Since he is fluent at the English language many times he writes songs that are in English and "Over" is one of them. One can tell just by hearing the lyrics that the artist thinks a lot about life and what it means to struggle after succeeding. One thing I do not like about the song is that not everyone can relate to this person but only a select few who have succeeded at a top level. This is understandable because he cannot relate to those who are average or those who do not even try. Like I said before, the person who wrote this song graduated from Stanford and the struggles and problems that he had to overcome were extremely difficult especially coming from a Korean culture. Him being at the top of his class and all those people who are the top of anything whether it be sports, business, etc., where do they go from this point? This is evident through the lines "You are an overachiever do what it take 'til it takes everything you are." Every line of every verse is beautifully developed with strong meaning to it. "Fate pushing you to the wall like a thumbtack" this line particularly sparks my interest because fate is a very controversial thing to believe in. Fate is the belief that the events and everything that happens in someone's life is already pre determined. As much as I would not like to believe this sometimes I am forced to. Many people wish to believe that one can determine their own fate meaning fate does not exist and the choices and events that are presented to us are based on what we perceive it as. To this artist fate is something that no matter how hard we try, we cannot change it. So instead, "Keep on going, and taste the stars, Keep on growing, and raise the bar".