Quiz Questions
1. What sections were the playlist broken into?
2. Which songs were placed onto the playlist to represent a failure in that section?
3. Which song did I claim represented someone who "won the game of life"?
4. Which song was, by title, on there twice and why were they on there?
5. Which song did I say was an unofficial inclusion that should have been official?
6. Which two songs were on there by mandate of the prompt?
Discussion Questions
1. Which of the songs on the playlist was the most surprising to be here? Why? Which was the most obvious?
2. What other categories do you think a Happiness playlist could have?
3. Should a "Happiness Playlist" be about describing happiness in many forms or about inducing a good mood with cheery, happy songs?
4. Do you have any song recommendations for a larger version of this playlist? Explain what songs and why.
2. What other categories do you think a Happiness playlist could have?
3. Should a "Happiness Playlist" be about describing happiness in many forms or about inducing a good mood with cheery, happy songs?
4. Do you have any song recommendations for a larger version of this playlist? Explain what songs and why.
- Velvet Underground's "Heroin" mainly because heroin is typically a source of addiction which isn't happy, even though the drug produces effects that give on a sense of happiness. The most obvious, if it counts, was "Don't Worry Be Happy".
ReplyDelete- Other suitable categories may include "Finding Happiness" and 'Unexpected Happiness"
- A playlist should more so be describing happiness in many forms, as well as depicting our perception of what happiness is to us as people, at least in the context of this class.
- A contribution I have might be "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands". It tells children subliminally that one *should* be happy, and almost forces it by making them clap, usually in the context of a group, resulting in peer pressure. This sounds weird, since it's just a happy song for children, but it's mainly the idea that one must always be happy at any given time, which seems wrong to me.
4. Do you have any song recommendations for a larger version of this playlist? Explain what songs and why.
ReplyDeleteA Good Day - Ice Cube. This is a feel good song from the hood, where things always go bad, he finds a day that is different from all the trouble.