Not a structured writing just my emotional response:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/billieholiday/strangefruit.html
The song is morbid and doesn't directly relate to bad things but if you listen closely it talks about what used to happen to African American people. She is talking about African American people but she represents them as a fruit. The music is very sad and adds to what the song is saying and trying to prove. It is a very morbid song but its describing events that actually took place American people used to hang black people because they didn't understand equality and how we are all alike. For me the song made me sad and made my stomach get all tingly knowing that these terrible event took place. It makes me wonder what we are doing wrong in the modern day that we don't recognize as wrong, because back then the American people thought that the were helping the natural order of things but really they are hurting innocent people. We might not consciously think something is wrong because everybody does it, it is the social normality. Therefore it just makes me wonder what if our normality's are right or we need to completely change our ways so that we don't have another frightening time period in history like the one this song is depicting.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/billieholiday/strangefruit.html
The song is morbid and doesn't directly relate to bad things but if you listen closely it talks about what used to happen to African American people. She is talking about African American people but she represents them as a fruit. The music is very sad and adds to what the song is saying and trying to prove. It is a very morbid song but its describing events that actually took place American people used to hang black people because they didn't understand equality and how we are all alike. For me the song made me sad and made my stomach get all tingly knowing that these terrible event took place. It makes me wonder what we are doing wrong in the modern day that we don't recognize as wrong, because back then the American people thought that the were helping the natural order of things but really they are hurting innocent people. We might not consciously think something is wrong because everybody does it, it is the social normality. Therefore it just makes me wonder what if our normality's are right or we need to completely change our ways so that we don't have another frightening time period in history like the one this song is depicting.