Week 7 "A Hard Day's Night" by the The Beatles

The Beatles how could I not pick a Beatles song. I mean they are iconic! Beatlemania is real and it is alive and well. "A Hard Day's Night" was my anthem senior year of high school. After a long long subway shift a day full of hardship when I was working like a dog all day. I would get in my car and find "A Hard Day's Night" turn it up way too loud and jammed out and that would make me feel all right. John Lennon and Paul McCartney really knew how to write them! the song lyrics are catchy and perfectly applicable to overreacting teen minds  I mean the song is basically them complaining about a "hard day" and how they love coming home to their love and seeing what they do if that doesn't sound exactly like a moody in a loved teenager I do not know what does! The repeating lyrics also make it really easy to sing along with it and make it very hummable.  The music has a fun beat and I loved the guitar at the beginning it sets the tone for the song and gets you pumped. It sounds a little bit different than a lot of other Beatles songs and it was interesting to see them experiment in different sounds. As the song continues it goes from a more intense and angry sound to a more mellow and typical Beatles sound just like how emotions go from angry to mellow which was so cool.

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  1. Zach WienerOctober 14, 2019 at 9:22 PM

    Honestly Same! I couldn't help but pick a Beatles' song. I love how you talked about the emotions of the song. One can really feel and understand their Hard day and how it felt to turn it around with "their love". I love it!

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