American Roots Music
“Same Love” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Ft. Mary Lambert I chose to do this topic over the song “same love” because it shows the perspectives of fear and struggles throughout the song related to social issues. Specifically, this song is more towards the LGBTQ+ community, and the reason it all came to be such an amazing and popular song was that it had so much meaning behind it. The songwriters are also telling their life stories throughout. This song really hit it off in 2014 and won a Grammy award for Macklemore and Lewis, but Mary Lambert is the actual songwriter of this song. Lambert grew up knowing that she was gay and felt guilty about it, especially because she was involved in church. She stated that she would go to church on Sundays and cry and apologize for being a sinner. From a personal view, I believe that this helped a lot of people open their eyes and really take a look at the bigger picture of things in the sense that being part of the LGB...