Strange Fruit - Analysis

Hey,

today after warming up about your favorite types of music, we began to study the song Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday. Here is what we said about it:

 The singer conveys a lot of emotions through her song, thanks to the melody, her voice, her attitude and her lyrics.
The melody is slow, low and conveys a melancholy feeling.
The topic is very serious and Billie Holiday is committed / involved
Her voice is powerful. She sounds as if she were about to cry. Her eyes are empty when she remembers the necktie party / lynching party and the suffering of the black people.
Her voice conveys both pain and hatred, sorrow and anger when she pounds on / stresses some important words.
As for her attitude, she grimaces and her mouth is often twisted.
She wails at the end of the song to express her suffering. She is very sensitive.
The lyrics evoke a lynching party: "black bodies hanging". But the scene is in contrast with some words with a positive connotation: "Southern breeze", "swing"... We cannot but sympathize with her when she refrains from crying / when she is on the verge of tears / when she has tears in her eyes.

HW: finish finding the words that are in contrast in the lyrics and get ready to talk about the song + Learn your new vocabular (a test in on the way...)

More information about the song and a documentary that was made about the song here.