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# F.U.B.U. (*For Us By Us) Playlist Shuffle ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
For my final project, I decided to do a lyrical analysis of the songs "Almeda" and "Don't Touch My Hair" by the artist Solange (a.k.a. Beyonce's sister). Through this lens of cultural and computing exploration, I was able to discover some meaningful things about the importance of rhetorical and poetical word order in black creativity/self expression. Therefore, without further a do: Welcome to the Black Parade (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUqA3jJ7Cw)! 🎵🎺
'Almeda' 🤎🥃 by Solange
To conduct my linguistic analysis on "Almeda", I created a solange() function which I used to segment into pieces an excerpt of catalogic text described by the colors "brown" and "black" in the song. I was delighted to see that the mixing of terms produced by the shuffling still captures the quintessential essence behind Solange's lyrics, which convey a celebration of blackness in the midst of its accompanying sorrows ("They takin' me in, what I done?" likely references police brutality against Black folks and/or the prejudicial injustice of being arrested simply for being Black). For example, I found the shuffled output of "Brown days" and "brown baes" to be just as relevantly Afrocentric as the original phrases "black days" and "Black baes". No love was lost, which I considered to be a huge flex. 👏🏾
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6giKIu5jUvA | Song Lyrics: https://genius.com/Solange-almeda-lyrics
black_owned_things = ['liquor', 'liquor', 'skin', 'face', 'leather', 'sugar', 'leaves', 'keys', 'creepers', 'face', 'skin', 'braids', 'waves', 'days', 'baes', 'things']
def solange(almeda):
from re import sub
verse = """Brown _, brown _
Brown _, brown _
Brown _, brown _
Brown _, brown _
Brown _, brown _
Black _, black _
Black _, black _
Black _, black _
These are black-owned things
Black faith still can't be washed away"""
for word in almeda:
verse = sub('_', word, verse, 1)
return verse
print(solange(black_owned_things))
Brown liquor, brown liquor
Brown skin, brown face
Brown leather, brown sugar
Brown leaves, brown keys
Brown creepers, brown face
Black skin, black braids
Black waves, black days
Black baes, black things
These are black-owned things
Black faith still can't be washed away
from random import shuffle
shuffle(black_owned_things)
print(solange(black_owned_things))
Brown days, brown leather
Brown face, brown baes
Brown leaves, brown skin
Brown sugar, brown skin
Brown braids, brown keys
Black creepers, black face
Black things, black liquor
Black waves, black liquor
These are black-owned things
Black faith still can't be washed away
shuffle(black_owned_things)
print(solange(black_owned_things))
Brown braids, brown baes
Brown face, brown waves
Brown skin, brown creepers
Brown face, brown liquor
Brown leather, brown liquor
Black days, black skin
Black keys, black things
Black leaves, black sugar
These are black-owned things
Black faith still can't be washed away
'Don't Touch My Hair' 👩🏾🦱🚫🙅🏾♀ by Solange
Using the same solange() function, I discovered that shuffling the lyrics of "Don't Touch My Hair" resulted in different outputs that were the complete opposite of "Almeda". Most, if not all, of the meaning behind the song lyrics becomes disappointingly lost in translation because of the scrambled sentence structures and misplaced words. Linguistically, the lyrics cease to make sense and feel disjointed from the soulful intention behind Solange's art. For example, the shuffled outputs "Don't touch my there" and "Don't touch my know" are nowhere near as powerful/impactful as the original phrases "Don't touch my soul" and "Don't touch my crown". Solange speaks from the heart, conveying in sweet yet funky tones the thoughts - and the countering rebuttal infused with White privilege ("What you say to me?") - that every black person (but especially black women) have undoubtedly experienced at least once in their lives when someone has disrespectfully touched their 'do without permission. Ultimately, the magic of her passionate plea as a woman of color for R-E-S-P-E-C-T and understanding here is left diminished in comparison to its former glory.
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTtrnDbOQAU | Song Lyrics: https://genius.com/Solange-dont-touch-my-hair-lyrics
black_pride = ['hair', 'feelings', 'wear', 'soul', 'rhythm', 'know', 'crown', 'vision', 'found', 'there', 'feelings', 'wear']
def solange(dont_touch):
from re import sub
verse = """Don't touch my _
When it's the _ I _
Don't touch my _
When it's the _ I _
Don't touch my _
They say the _ I've _
Don't touch what's _
When it's the _ I _"""
for word in dont_touch:
verse = sub('_', word, verse, 1)
return verse
print(solange(black_pride))
Don't touch my hair
When it's the feelings I wear
Don't touch my soul
When it's the rhythm I know
Don't touch my crown
They say the vision I've found
Don't touch what's there
When it's the feelings I wear
from random import shuffle
shuffle(black_pride)
print(solange(black_pride))
Don't touch my feelings
When it's the hair I vision
Don't touch my there
When it's the wear I soul
Don't touch my know
They say the found I've crown
Don't touch what's rhythm
When it's the wear I feelings
shuffle(black_pride)
print(solange(black_pride))
Don't touch my know
When it's the crown I feelings
Don't touch my soul
When it's the wear I feelings
Don't touch my there
They say the wear I've hair
Don't touch what's vision
When it's the rhythm I found