Blog #6

The version of "The Ghost of Tom Joad" by Rage Against The Machine has an upbeat tone to it. The artist is trying to make it sound like what Tom Joad is doing is revolutionary and it should inspire people. The music is faster and a lot louder than Bruce Springsteen's version. There are also a lot of parts of the song that are only instrumental. However, the lyrics are sung almost like a speech. It sounds like he is pumping up a crowd so that they will want to start a revolution and revolt against the government. The artist sounds like he is targeting an audience that is proud of what Tom Joad did and want to be like him. This artist's audience  probably has some problems with the law and authority figures in general. Bruce Springsteen's version of "The Ghost of Tom Joad" is much more melancholy. The music is much more quiet and slow. There are violins playing in the end which are usually associated with sadness. The violins are also playing without the artist singing. When the artist is singing he sounds sad like he is reminiscing about something that was really hard to deal with. He sounds like he is targeting an audience that has a lot of sympathy for what Tom Joad had to go through.