Analysis Of The Song Hush Yael By Oh, Sleeper

Art is the expression of creativity and imagination primarily for emotional or beauty purposes. When most people think of art, they might think of popular paintings or pictures like the Leonardo Da Vinci s â€Å"Mona Lisa† or Vincent Van Gogh s â€Å"Starry Night†. Art can also include drawings, pictures, songs, poems, architecture, literature, or just about anything else that someone can use to express themselves. What makes most art effective or meaningful is its purpose, how it inspires an emotion, and how aesthetically pleasing it is. In other words, art is effective if it has some sort of impact on others. The song, â€Å"Hush Yael† by Oh, Sleeper, very clearly demonstrates all of these qualities. â€Å"Hush Yael† is effective in conveying its†¦show more content†¦In a newspaper article, Kaiser wrote â€Å"I will never forget the joy and the hatred in their voices as they swaggered about hunting for us, firing their guns and throwing grenade s.† But soon Yael, being the 2-year-old she was, started making noise. Kaiser, knowing that if they heard Yael they would surely find and kill all of them, firmly covered Yael’s mouth to quiet her. Later after being saved by police officers, Kaiser found out that in her attempt to save the others in the crawlspace, she ended up smothering her own child; hence the title of the song â€Å"Hush Yael† was inspired. The fact the song is based around such a tragic story makes it effective in evoking feelings of dread, sympathy, remorse, disbelief, and even a little bit of anger. The perpetrators were after all, eventually freed from prison in 2008 (Solomon). In this way, this specific piece of art promotes an emotional effect from those who understand the backstory. Though the majority of the song retells a real story, the story isn’t the main, central message. In the chorus, it says â€Å"So lift your voices high, higher than the mountains of their spite. We a re, we are the fearless, the ruthless, the heroes of our time.† What this means is that since we have the ability to speak out, we should speak out for those who are not able to and be the ‘heroes of our time’. The song also has a line where it states â€Å"We must rise for the helpless and fight for their justice.† This line