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=CRAZY - SIMPLE PLAN - //STILL NOT GETTING ANY...//=

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Tell me what's wrong with society  When everywhere I look I see  Young girls dying to be on TV  They wont stop 'til they've reached their dreams

 Diet pills, surgery  Photoshop pictures in magazines  Telling them how they should be  It doesn't make sense to me

 Is everybody going crazy?  Is anybody gonna save me?  Can anybody tell me what's going on?  Tell me what's going on  If you open your eyes  You'll see that something is wrong

 I guess things are not how they used to be  There's no more normal families <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Parents act like enemies <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Making kids feel like it's world war III

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> No one cares, no one's there <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> I guess we're all just too damn busy <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Money's our first priority <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> It doesn't make sense to me

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Is everybody going crazy? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Is anybody gonna save me? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Can anybody tell me what's going on? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Tell me what's going on <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> If you open your eyes <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> You'll see that something is wrong

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Is everybody going crazy? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Is everybody going crazy?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Tell me what's wrong with society <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> When everywhere I look I see <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Rich guys driving big SUV's <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> While kids are starving in the streets <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> No one cares <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> No one likes to share <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> I guess life's unfair

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Is everybody going crazy? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Is anybody gonna save me? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Can anybody tell me what's going on <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Tell me what's going on <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> If you open your eyes <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> You'll see that something

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> something is wrong <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Is everybody going Crazy? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Can anybody tell me what's going on <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Tell me what's going on <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> If you open your eyes <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> You'll see that something is wrong

I'll talk about:


 * Why I chose crazy
 * Its rhythm and music
 * The structure
 * What the lyrics say and its final message


 * WHY //CRAZY//? **

//Crazy// is one of the most critical songs I’ve ever listened to and a master piece from the canadian group Simple Plan. It talks about the society nowadays and how we don’t care about certain aspects we should, and tries to make the audience think about the unfairness in equality. Its message and clear theme was what made me choose this one.

R**HYTHM AND SOUND**

In terms of rhythm and sound the song is really simple. It begins with a very high pitched piano followed by the electric guitis clears and the drums, which will remain constant varying in few occasions the rhythm. The sudden entrance of these creates a type of atmosphere which is really significant and appropriate to the song, as it makes it agresive, putting emphasis to the criticism.In addition to the rythm, each stanza, in which are divided the lyrics, has a meaning, always beeing critical.


 * LYRICS AND STRUCTURE **

The lyrics are divided in ten stanzas in which their is a clear chorus. It’s repeated four times, this way it gives strenght to the final message. The artist gives its opinion from its point of view in which he says that he doesn’t understand how we can live knowing what is happening over the world, and how powerfully poverty is affecting many countries, and those who can are doing nothing to try and solve it.

The first lines of this song describe the situation of the famous people and what we see the rest. For example it mentions that those who appear in TV or in magazines pictures should be the stereotype of the human being, although many times this good-looking photos are false because reality is changed by computer; and the worst of all, a high percentage of the population want to be like them and they use new resources as diet pills or surgery to reach their dreams.

The next lines criticise the new way of life (capitalism), a busy business man in which money turns up beeing //our first priority//. As a result of this situations many families are destabilized, parents end up divorcing and putting their children into violent situations, comparing it to a war, which anybody cares.

To sum up, the last stanzas are a clear image of the inequality of the economical positions. It refers to rich people who’s driving around with their expensive and high range cars, whilst they see people and also kids who are starving and begging for a cent which they will not give them.

As a result, the message //Crazy// tries to transmit is evident. During all the song, the artist is showing us many problems that surround us. However, what they want to say is that although this problems exist and we know that they are present in todays world, we are doing very little to help, and those who have the power and money to aid and probably save loads of children who are dying every day, they don't care.

Simple Plan wrote this song in 2004 together with the album //STILL NOT GETTING ANY...// which refers to these people who is not receiving any help. With the profit Simple Plan earned from selling this album, which was during many weeks in the top positions of the charts, they created a foundation to aid the children in Africa.

**My Activity**

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Put each line in the correct order:

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Young girls dying to be on TV <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Tell me what's wrong with society <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">They wont stop 'til they've reached their dreams <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">When everywhere I look I see <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Photoshop pictures in magazines <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Diet pills, surgery <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">It doesn't make sense to me <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Telling them how they should be <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Is anybody gonna save me? <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"> Tell me what's going on <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Is everybody going crazy? <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Can anybody tell me what's going on? <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">If you open your eyes <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">You'll see that something is wrong <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">There's no more normal families <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">I guess things are not how they used to be <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Making kids feel like it's world war III <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Parents act like enemies

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">It doesn't make sense to me <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">No one cares, no one's there <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Money's our first priority <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">I guess we're all just too damn busy