IM IN THE THICK OF IT EVERYBODY KNOWS 💅💯

Hello and welcome back to the best blog in the entire world, the frog blog! By popular request, I am going to write about music, similar to my first blog. However, in this blog, I will take a deeper look into the literary aspect of musical lyrics in the following songs: Thick of It by KSI and Empty Out Your Pockets by Juice WRLD from his new album The Party Never Ends. Each song provides a unique aspect of the artist’s lifestyle and worldview. 

        Thick of It by Olajide Olatujin, commonly known as KSI, is a lyrical masterpiece. It contains rich and deep meaning, for example in the first chorus Olajide Olatujin depicts the twists and knots life has each bringing him to a new passion, “I went from living rooms straight out to sold-out tours” In this line KSI states how he was a mere youtuber to selling tour tickets for his concerts. Following this statement, he provides another key example of wordplay and second meanings by stating the following: “From the screen to the ring, to the pen, to the king, Where's my crown? That's my bling.” by further analyzing these lyrics it can be found that he was stating how he used to work for youtube, to being a boxer, to be the world's best music artist, constantly switching his passions. This song has been criticized for being cringy on social media, but by further reading and understanding the lyrics it is unveiled that this song is incredible! KSI unveiled his musical skills in this song and portrayed his successful career to create the complex and catchy that we know to this day as Thick of It!           The next song is from Juice WRLD, Empty Out Your Pockets. This song is featured in his third and final postmortem album released shortly 5 years after his tragic opioid overdose on December 6th, 2019: The Party Never Ends. The album features popular artists such as Eminem and Nicki Minaj throughout the album. I decided to focus on one song in particular, Empty Out Your Pockets. Empty Out Your Pockets depicts Juice WRLD’s pain and regret with his opioid addiction and hard life growing up in the Chicago suburbs. One example of this is seen in the third verse where he says “I bet you never felt this pain I felt when mama had no money and them bills brought hell” depicting the troubles his mom had to make ends meet and pay her bills. In addition, in the second verse, he shows his troubles with his opioid addiction by saying “Get high then my memory gone I’ve been hurting.” This line depicts how his addiction was wrecking his memory and mental stability, and he reflects on it by releasing the damage it is creating and how it is hurting him. Empty Out Your Pockets is a sad song but it is important to reflect on artist's lives and worldviews and how it affected their music and expression. One note I would like to add is that music taste is subjective and is different for each listener and there is no "correct" taste. Everyone is unique and so is their music taste!

One note I would like to add is that music taste is subjective and is different from each listener and there is no "correct" taste. Everyone is unique and so is their music taste!

Thank you for reading the frog blog and I recommend that you listen to both songs whenever you get the chance! I posted both down below for ease of use!

Empty Out your pockets by Juice world: Click here

Thick of It by K.S.I: Click here

Luka

Leave a comment down below on some songs I should listen too! id love to hear them