Binary Thesis

Ross Copperman

Ed Sheeran

Though Ed Sheeran's "Let it out" and Ross Copperman's "I Don't Wannna Let You Go" both conduct the speaker's longing for acquiring an efficient relationship, Ed displays his appreciation towards the one he adores through the simile "we're just like glue" without letting the relationship stumble into a different path, while Ross experienced his loss of love through attempting of going on his own and realizing she was the one that "led him home".


Greg Laswell "Three Flights From Alto Nido"

Greg Laswell is an alternative singer in the songwriting industry. Greg first started out his career in the band Shillglen with five other members. The band had moderate success when nominated for Best Alternative Album and Best Alternative Band at the San Diego Music Awards in 2000. The Band themselves decided to take a break from the musical industry in mid-2001. The band never regrouped and Greg Laswell later established himself as a solo artist. He has success in his own albums winning awards for his own work. He joined tours with other talented artist and found his songs featured in movies and TV shows including Grey's Anatomy. Today he released 5 studio albums, 3 extended plays, and 7 singles.

The third studio album is presented with the title Three Flights From Alto Nido. It was released in July of 2008 through Vanguard Records. There are 11 tracks on this particular album including a bonus track. All songs were written, recorded, and preformed by Greg Laswell himself. Greg preforms vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonium, bass, melotron, bells, and organ. The multi-instrumental Laswell continues the San Diego native's taste for exquisite, mature, pop music. All the songs on the album portray the elegiac, bitter, dreamy, and confident mood one conveys through life. Three Flights
From Alto Nido shows a lot of music displaying the predicament situations towards relationships and solitude. Including the song Days Go On and It's Been A Year Greg shows his problems with relationships and how he resolves with them in a way to make him feel better.

Although Greg's songs show a lot of concern with ones mind, listening to the music begin with soft and warm voice lyrics and instruments to a powerful and rock sound really show the meaning and how he feels toward different situations.

Song Analysis 1: The Enemy

Displaying the friendship of two humans in "The Enemy" , Andrew Belle utilizes soft alliteration, tenderness simile, and a trace of irony to depict the challenge of truth without being "misunderstood."

                Andrew Belle applies soft alliteration to the lyrics of his song to represent the emphasis in certain situations. Andrew wants to show his listeners the challenge through words when talking to a friend about what he has experienced or experiencing.  Listening to the song, I can start to feel that he chose a different life style dealing with drugs and champagne and doesn’t want his friend to join him. He wants to explain himself to his friend but he is “tongue tied.” He doesn’t know how to explain himself and he is scared that if he does, she will get the wrong impression. Andrew chooses the words “tongue tied” to show how the conversation between the two people is such a challenge for he is speechless and his words are locked.

                Throughout the song, Andrew also displays tenderness simile to feel the connection between the two people with compassion. Through what feels like a moment of conversation between the two people, his “heart gets lost like a message” feeling like she won’t understand the way he wants her to. As the words move from place to place, they start to leave meaning and leave purpose. He can’t leave the lifestyle he is in, yet he doesn’t want her to follow where his heart is. He can’t explain where he is, but he doesn’t want to show her because the message could be mistaken. His heart wasn’t very comforting while her “heart was warm like a brother’s should.”  He feels as though he has made the wrong choice and she had followed him without warning. He didn’t warn her because he was afraid of what words would come out and what she would do with them. She took it in a different way and shouldn’t have because she was so loved and felt like family to him.

                Finally, Andrew demonstrates his honesty through irony. He tells his friend about the lifestyle he chose but tells it to her in a way she won’t mirror it. He tells her almost as if he “held a banner/but its upside down.”  He doesn’t want to be misunderstood when he exposes his truth. He wants her to take the message he has declared but take it almost as though he never said it.

In “The Enemy”, Andrew Belle displays his message of obtaining drugs and alcohol to a girl without misinterpreting it with alliteration, simile, and irony.