Part 1 looking at the product
“Make It Stop”
otherwise known as “September’s children”
played by “Rise Against” written by “Tim Mcilrath” the lead singer of “Rise Against” the genre being punk rock
with elements of pop rock and melodic hardcore. The song is about anti-bullying.
It’s about the horrific events that occurred September of 2010 when a string of
suicides occurred because of homophobic bullying. The meaning of the song is to
stop bullying, to let it get better. The main lyrics are “Make it stop. Let this end. Eighteen years pushed to the ledge.” What
this is saying is that because of bullying and the fact that it wasn’t stopped
that a teenager was push to the brink of suicide. Another part of the song that
brings attention to this subject is “And
too much blood has flown from the wrists, Of the children shamed for those they
chose to kiss. Who will rise to stop the blood?” this section’s meaning
stands for the large quantity of suicides that have occurred and all because
the children that chose to be gay and idiots that chose to make fun and torment
them because of that choice. Who will rise to stop the blood? Who’s going to stand
up for them? Who’s going to help them? But the hardest hitting lyric this song
uses is all the names of the children who committed suicides because of idiots
who thought it was funny to plague them in their life.
Part 2 looking at the composer
The major reason that “Tim Mcilrath” decided to write and sing this song was because he
found out that a lot of their fans were unsure about how they felt about if
there fans were gay. With this question being ask it broke his heart that his
fans would even question for a second where they stand on this subject. This drove
him to the studio to begin work on this song and with the events of September occurring
around this time it made him realize that their needs to be a song about this. The
other reason was because he knew that the rock scene in general does not discusses
about things like this. I personally believe that he is highly credible because
he took the time to write this song and not just that but he worked with the
program “it gets better project”. I believe
that him at a personal level he has no history with bullying but that doesn’t mean
that he cannot speak up for those that are silent about what is really going on.
As for the process of making this song and music video “Tim Mcilrath” wrote the song the song is performed by “Rise Against” and also the fact that
they worked with the “It gets better project”
makes his position a lot more credible. The message that he is trying to send
out is “it can get better, give it a
chance to get better, don’t end your life prematurely”. What makes this
song effective is the emotions behind it, the support it gets, there is many
people behind this movement.
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