SET TEXT 7 - DREAM - Lyrics Analysis

Question 1

ANALYSE:

‘And when the girls would walk by would would try to catch their eye’

Answer 1

This shows the misogyny related to rap music. Male rap artists focus on females and degrading them, maybe dizzee didn’t mean it in this context as the song is a true story, however some may decode it as this.

Question 2

ANALYSE:

‘I was dead sure I knew it all’

Answer 2

He thought he knew everything - a representation of age.

Question 3

ANALYSE:

‘Cause money don’t grow on no stick’

Answer 3

Shows Dizzee’s social class.
Many children believe that ‘money grows on trees’ and they can get what they want - however due to the poverty dizzee lived in he realised pretty soon that this wasn’t true.

Question 4

ANALYSE:

The Chorus.

Answer 4

It’s sang by kids.
This could be a representation of Dizzee as a child as he had this dream he was determined to achieve - it’s basically saying if you have something you love and you want to pursue it then you can’t do that without a dream.

Question 5

ANALYSE:
‘So I went to North London and trot to Tottenham to be precise
And got some air time on Heat FM’

Answer 5

He knew he wouldn’t make it if he stayed at home so he went further a field and tried different stations until he found on that would allow him some air time - he failed multiple times yet still succeeded in the end.

Question 6

ANALYSE:
‘Grim and Glam’
‘Poor and Posh’

Answer 6

This represents how his life has changed - he went from grim to glam, poor to posh and he made his own way and his own money - his story shown in a few words.

Question 7

ANALYSE:
‘Made an album over 100,000 people bought it,
Thank You’

Answer 7

Shows his gratitude to his fans - and he is a role model to young black boys who also have dreams.
If someone from the same background can do it, so can you.
He’s thankful for his audience.