16 @ War Song Analysis

Karina Pasian. “16 @ War”. First Love. June 16, 2009
16 @ War is the first song you hear when you listen to my album, I choose it to be first because it introduces the things that teenage girls in low poverty neighborhoods and household go though. In the song she states, “ Aint no fathers where I’m from, just mad mothers”. This helps the focus of the album by illustrating the kind of place she lives, and how her father could be non-present for several reason like, he could be in jail or even dead, because in places like where she lives it is a common thing, Pasain later on goes to explain that the males that she does know are not great father figures because in a line of the song she states “ Why am I being disrespected by someone I should call brother?” Another line she states while singing this song is “ And why girls feel unpretty and constantly hate each other”. Which is disheartening because basically you get the feeling of a 16 year old girl going through life by herself, she already stated the mothers are “mad” the fathers are gone and the other males figures treat her like an object and disrespect her, and the girls she

From this song on is where the mood in my album goes to empowerment, love and encouragement for girls and other minorities in society. My absolute favorite lyrics in this sing is “ I am not my hair, I am not my Skin, I am not you expectations… I am the soul that lives within”. This an important concept for everyone to know, we need to stop trying to live to societal standards and love ourselves as we are even if people might not like what you love about you. This song was put in my album to help females and even males realize that our outward appearance do not define