Listening Log Assignment #5: song used – When I Was Your Man by Bruno Mars
1) Three phrases in the song that striked me were:
“It all just sounds like ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Mm, too young, too dumb to realize
That I should have bought you flowers
And held your hand”
Mm, too young, too dumb to realize
That I should have bought you flowers
And held your hand”
“Should have gave you all my hours
When I had the chance
Take you to every party ’cause all you wanted to do was dance”
When I had the chance
Take you to every party ’cause all you wanted to do was dance”
“Now my baby’s dancing
But she’s dancing with another man”
But she’s dancing with another man”
He emphasizes a lot on what he missed out on, and even recognized his mistake in a failed relationship with a woman he once loved.
3) Some changes I noticed in the song was the beat and rhythm. Bruno would sing high then low.
“My pride, my ego, my needs, and my selfish ways
Caused a good strong woman like you to walk out my life”
“Now I never, never get to clean up the mess I made, oh”
“And it haunts me every time I close my eyes”
They strike me because it represents young male teens who are in relationships, where one simply does not give their love or attention to the woman that loves them and eventually ends up losing her due to that mistake. He emphasizes himself being “selfish” and focused on his “pride” and “ego” as he did not realize what he had before it was too late.
2) Three repetitions I noticed in the song were: