Looking through my iTunes for an artist whose music/style I felt I could analyze, I came across Phil Collins and realized that I had found what I was looking for. I'm going to focus on his song "You'll Be In My Heart" because there is so much to say about this song alone. This song is greatly known because it was in the Disney movie "Tarzan" and; thus, it has a very mellow and calming overall sound, uses an extremely wide variety of instruments, and even employs call and response, which is especially discernable at the end of the song when Collins sings "just look over your shoulder" and the trumpet appears to repeat this same phrase after him. Singing "you'll be in my heart from this day on now and forever more," Collins earns a place for himself in the hearts of the public who are not only touched by these sweet lyrics but who are also swayed by the relaxing sound of his voice and the many instruments that combine and become one. The wide variety of instrumention present in this song also allows for a very diverse population to identify with his music as voice, drums, trumpets, guitars, a piano and rattles are all employed. In "Tarzan" this song was used to show that despite how different Tarzan was to his adoptive mother gorilla and the rest of the population he found himself growing up with, in the end he still had hands and most importantly a heart like all of them; thus, they were ultimately all the same. By including all of these different instruments whose roles vary so drastically from culture to culture, I think this song by itself communicates the idea that we are all united despite our differences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n1zFwyj8FE
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