Written In the Star by Tinnie Tempah featuring Eric Turner

Tinie Tempah is back; with his latest song in 2010 featuring Eric Turner entitled “Written in the Stars”. This song is actually written by Tinie Tempah. In this song, he tells about his passion for and struggle to get his name known.  Now, he is known as a famous rapper singer among the other rappers in the world of music because of this melody dramatic song.
In this song, he actually tells about his passion for and struggle for to get his known. We also can see that this song highlights about his past experience. Based on his experience, we can relate it to some issues have happened in this world such as child abandon, poverty, drug abuse and starvation. We can see that nowadays many people especially the black people face their lives with these problems every single day and sometimes, they have done some illegal activities like selling drugs to survive and get some money. Throughout his song, he calls himself as a ghetto and also mentions about his illegal stuff that he has ever done before in order to get money to survive as he mentions, “they say that money is the root to the evilist ways”.  The title of this song, “Written in the Stars” means his destiny has been already planned for his life as a human nature. He cannot change the fact that his dream is still a long journey as a singer.
  This song can be used in the classroom to create a comfortable environment and awareness among students of the message in the song. First, students will feel enjoy when teacher shows an interesting music video to them because for them, music is an entertainment for their lives. Then, teacher will explain about the message of what the singer conveys in the song. Teacher’s explanation about the song will make students realize how important their lives are and at the same time, they will relate this song into their reality of lives.
In conclusion, I really love listening to this song as the message of this song is meaningful and thoughtful for me. Rap song is my favourite genre and has become part of my soul.


Here is the song "Written in the Stars" with lyrics. Enjoy!

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1 comments:

FH said...

really interesting song and its convey a lot of message. we usually see a message in a paper but for me message is not just in a piece of paper but it can also be in various way and for me it is more meaningful by portray it in a song..=)

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