“American Dream” by MKTO
- In the Song “American Dream” by MKTO it shows what the American Dream is like in todays days.
- The singer Malcolm David Kelley wrote as a lyric, “Say goodbye to white picket fences. Say hello to palm trees and Benzes. They say you gotta fall to have it all” basically saying the goal of living in America is having the luxury and the opportunity to be able to live a lavish life.
- Malcolm David is African American therefore he wants to also live and show the life he could have been deprive from growing up in the 1860s.
- Malcolm grew up in Bellflower, California in a normal African American neighborhood.
- On the other hand Tony Oller growing up in Houston, Texas as a white person, he didn't have to struggle as much as Malcolm did.
- The moral of the Song is mainly talking about all the opportunities America offers and how “We were born to run, Cali here we come. Gettin' out of here” the country has liberty it just depend on how one takes advantage of the liberty handed to us.
Premiered April 28, 2014