You could drill them and ask them to think of other words that like ‘happening’ are written with what seems like 3 syllables but often pronounced with 2.įor the linking /j/ you could follow this up with the maze activity from pronunciation games by Mark Hancock. Pronunciation: This section is just to draw attention to natural features, something that we think is important for students to enable them to listen well outside the classroom. created a new version for a Pepsi Super Bowl commercial touting Pepsi Zero Sugar's black can. In 2020, another major brand deployed the song when Missy Elliot and H.E.R. Once they have completed the phrases put them in groups and ask them to work together to think about the meaning. In a nod to Henry Ford's quote 'you can have any color as long as it's black,' an orchestral version was used in a 2018 Ford commercial starring Bryan Cranston. Vocab: Here you can either do this as a reading or a listening, but I would go for a listening and then read to check. This is more a case of exposing students to it, getting them to think about it and showing them that get can also be used. Listening: Play the song twice or as many times as needed for students to complete the table.Īnswer – the girls are walking by – not painted or want to paintįollow the exercise, you could always revise this later in the wk / class. Love this tune, but always thought it was about Vietnam. Procedure: A lot of this is just following the worksheet.ĭiscussion: – warmer – associations with the colour black, think about collocations as well, get as much as you can from the students. Fantastic post OP-heard this song randomly today on Pandora. Hopefully some of the ideas here can be applied to songs you or your students like too. Rather than picking this song for its specific merits, I picked a song I liked and then looked for what was there. It is intended as a short follow up, so shouldn’t take too long, but focuses on listening and picking things out from the song. The song resonated with people, even if it wasn’t in the way the Mick Jagger and company intended.I wrote the ‘tense review with the stones’ lesson a couple of weeks ago: In addition, the track was played in the opening credits of Tour of Duty, a show about the Vietnam War which ran from 1987 to 1990. this refers to a line of cars that are black, either limos for the. 'i see a line of cars and theyre all painted black'. (love referring to a girl)the artist is singing about everything turning black because hes depressed and sees everything as black. Many younger people are familiar with the war primarily through movies, so the use of the song in a popular Vietnam War movie caused some people to interpret it as a song about the war. this song is written from the perspective of a man thats depressed because his 'love' died. “Paint It Black” plays over the film’s final scene. In addition, the media forged an association between the war and “Paint It Black.”įull Metal Jacket is among the most famous films about the conflict. Discussion in Music Forums started by 91firebird, at 5:50 AM. The song certainly conveys a mix of anger and despair that many people felt about the war - whether they were fighting in it or not. So why do some see “Paint It Black” as a protest song about the Vietnam War? The book 50 Licks: Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones includes an anonymous testimony from a Vietnam veteran who said the song’s morbid lyrics resonated with many soldiers who fought in the war. RELATED: The Beatles-Themed Message Hidden on a Rolling Stones Album Cover Other reasons why people associate ‘Paint It Black’ with the Vietnam War Soldiers in the Vietnam War | Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images However, the Rolling Stones did not write it with any political meaning in mind. It’s not totally unreasonable to think the song was a response to the war. “Paint It Black” is an angry song that was released in 1966, a time when many people in the United States and the United Kingdom wanted the war to end. The Rolling Stones created multiple songs dealing with their anger regarding the war. The war left a huge shadow over the popular culture of the era. It’s impossible to understand the rock music of the late 1960s and early 1970s without having a cursory understanding of the Vietnam War. RELATED: The Rolling Stones Song That Made a Backup Singer Suffer a Miscarriage
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