Waiting on the World to change

Hello all,
Today I have decided to share my belief of how a single song can have majot influence on society and their behavior.John Mayer is one of my favorite artists because he often write songs with extremely powerful lyrics. While very powerful and thought provoking, most of his songs are about romance or self discovery and may change a person's personal view points they don't encourage people to take a stand against prominent world issues. However John Mayer's "Waiting on the world to change" does just that.It encourage other's to stand up for current issues.

"Waiting on the World to Change" adresses the fact that our generation is very misunderstood and is infact aware of what is going on in the world. It's just that young people do not feel as though they are credible to make any sort of change and it is up to the people in power which I completely disagree with. Therefore we are waiting for such people to make some sort of difference. This song was released during the Bush administration which makes perfect sense because we just kept waiting for Bush to make changes that ultimately never happened. What we as young people should have done is taken a stand on every issue we felt passionate about even if it was in the smallest way. The song also mentions that that "if you trust your television what you get is what you got because they own the information they can bend it all they want." Thia is very propagandistic and relates to the idea we discussed in class of biases in the news due to companies that own news corporations. The song also has a left wing slant saying that fighting for current issues was not fair because with the government body in office at the time nothing would ever get done. The song encpurages young people to take a stand because we are the future and need to start building a foundation for ourselves now