09.19 - The end of Creepers and Keepers

We started off today's class with a "Creeper or Keeper" song that set us up for our final "Creeper or Keeper" song. The song we looked at first was "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye. After listening to the song, everyone had one minute to analyze the speaker's tone and diction and determine whether or not he was a keeper or a creeper. The notes and video for the song are below.

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Green Text = arguments for a keeper
Red Text = arguments for a creeper
Blue Text = Mr. Collins' discussion notes

In my discussion of the song, I admitted to having presented the song with a well-established bias towards a creeper. As shown by the blue text in the analysis, this was based in the woman's perspective on him and his own way of describing the relationship and talking to her. Several people did make a good argument for keeper though in saying that we can't be sure of the woman's behavior in this relationship even if this guy was a creeper.

My discussion of the speaker in "Somebody That I Used to Know" was put forward to make the following point:

Having feelings doesn't mean you are a good person.

(The speaker in the song sounds very sincere and emotional, but what he says and what we hear about him don't indicate that he is a very good person).

This lead to our second song, "Konstantine" by Something Corporate. When listening to this song, I asked the class to consider whether he was an emotionally sincere, keeper kind of person or an emotionally reckless, somebody-that-I-used-to-know kind of person. The class notes are below. We will finish discussing this song next class.

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Homework:

 

Finish reading Night for tomorrow's class (according to the class reading schedule).