“All I wanna say is, they don’t really care about us.” -Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson’s iconic “They Don’t Care About Us” is one of the most well-known controversial songs in pop history which describes the everyday injustices of minorities. The word cloud here produces the most commonly used lyrics in the song, however, if you look past the biggest words, the smaller words are rather violent and/or saddening. For example, jail, aggravation, victim, dead, shot, worry, truth, kill and invisible. This could be suggesting a visual representation of the little worries non-minorities may have, however minorities have and had to worry about these things in their everyday life.
If we take a step up and look at the rather medium-sized words in the world cloud, we can see that words like news, allegation, kick, black, food, tired, speculation, worry, and hate are all used to summarize, and still can be summarized as some of the biggest problems minorities and the world in general deal with in everyday life. Michael Jackson may have done this constant repetition on purpose, not only because it is the usual structure of a pop song, but to get a real point across, stating that the government and higher ups do not truly care about their people, especially the minorities.
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I like the way that you use the different hierarchies of words in the word cloud to point out common themes from the song and explain them. It is really interesting how you work your way up from the smaller, less common words to the larger and more common words, showing what their aggregate meaning could represent at each stage. When it comes to word clouds, I think people tend to ignore the smaller words and just focus on the bigger ones, and they also don’t realize that the words that have common sizes could represent a theme. Good job really digging into the meaningfulness of these words.
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