Comparison and Contrast

All the way through the History, artists, singers and poems writers had excelled on their own categories. Different styles like romanticism, classicism, modernism and many other have classified them. Therefore I have come up with these two great song writers which I am going to compare. First we have Ricardo Montaner with a song called “so in love”. On the other hand we have Eros Ramazzotti with a song called “Now you”. Even though this both great singer have a different back grounds and styles they have the same themes.

Ricardo Montaner was born on September 8, 1957 in Valentin Alsina, Buenos Aires, Argentina. His real name is Hector Eduardo Reglero Montaner. He started to sing at the very young age, yet fame did not reach him until 1987, when he released his single “ME WHO LOVED YOU”. Meanwhile in the year 1988 Ricardo released his fourth album called “Ricardo Montaner 2” with the song “SO IN LOVE” which I found it to be a very excellent song. On the other hand, Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti mostly known as Eros Ramazzotti was born on October the 28, 1963 in Cinecitta, Rome, Italy. He also started his career at a very young age. Even though he is an Italian singer, he captures the Spanish community by translating and singing many of his song to the Spanish language. Furthermore there is one of his songs which I found very interesting is called “NOW YOU” which is also an excellent song as well. Therefore, I am going to analyze these two great singers and theirs song.

To begin with, if we analyze Ricardo Montaner song “SO IN LOVE”, we may notice that the tone which he uses to sing this song is a mix of love, excitement, confusion. For example we see that in the lyrics he uses values and words which are connected with images in order to show emotions. However it is easy to see that the song written in a free style. Yet I think that there is a mix between free and ballad style. The song is structured with seven to eight lines and has some rime between its lines, besides it tells a story as well. Furthermore we can see this song is basically a story of a person who is believes to be secretly in love with another, but he never tells her. At first If we take a look at the first two lines of the song we see that author start by saying “maybe you can ask, what is missing to this white night, to our life which has gone thru so much”. Here we may think that he is talking or asking these questions to someone. Then as the song develops the author stars to describe how great their love is or would be. For him their love has everything adventure, emotions, promises, happiness, love is perfect. He even states a Christian idealism, which is “heaven”. He does it by saying that “even up there I will still love you”. Basically he is stating that he believes that there is a heaven and even up there he will love her. Finally at the end of the song he says “Travel with you on the train” I believe he uses the word “train” to symbolize the long life ride, right besides the one he loves. Then he ends up saying “that is a dream had to believe”. There is when I realize that everything was just made up in his mind.

On the second hand there is Eros Ramazzotti with the song “NOW YOU”. I believe that the tone he used in this song is also a mix. First he starts expressing with sadness and pride, yet he adds some love emotions too. However this song is made in a free style. In order to analyze this song we start by looking at the first sentences where he begins by saying “I am form where the city ends, from a simple and popular neighborhood, where the air still clean”. Here we can see that he is trying to give an idea of morality and he does this by describing where he came from how he was raised. Even though that the world for him is mess up, he does not belong to it. Besides he explain how hard is to work in order to get something extra out of the normal. Yet in the middle were he states that “next to me Now you, to give a meaning to my life, to give all your moments, but even though we might not forget everything else that is happening. Here what he is trying to say is that even though there are so many problems in life, love will be always there. Finally he ends up by saying that no one is going to go back to the city where he lives because that city is stuck in the past, however that city is just a dream of him and the only real thing is the love that he is receiving from his lover.

In conclusion, the deep analysis of those songs makes me understand the different points of view that have the authors about the love. In addition, they have unique way to describe what means for them the love of his lives and the play that love roles on their feelings. In both songs, I can appreciate how the writers express their feeling and reactions about love using some writing techniques that embellish it, and they make the songs looks like a poem sings to the love.