song review

Esi Angraini

1200977

K.1 / 2012

Song Review

Title                  : We Will Not Go Down

Singer               : Michael Heart

Composer        : Michael Heart

Year                 : 2008 - 2009

This song is written by Michael Heart in 2008. Michael Heart is a composer and singer from America. He was born in Syria, and has a real name, Annas Allaf, whereas, Michael Heart is his stage name. He grows up in Swiss, Austria, Middle East, and America.

In 2008, Heart begins to write a song, ‘We Will Not Go Down’, which is inspired by a tragedy  that happen in Gaza, Palestine which is Moslems people are murdered by Jewish people from Israel. He serves this song freely in his private sites, but he suggests to donate for Gaza through United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

This song tells about war that happens in Gaza between Palestine (Moslems people) and Israel (Jewish people). Jewish massacre almost all of Moslems people in Palestine, and destroy many buildings there. There is nothing remains, but a spirit to defend their religion, Islam. It is pictured from these lyrics:

We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight

The lyrics in this song make people feel sympathy toward the tragedy that happens in Palestine. This song also makes other Muslims love their religion. It makes Muslims people in Palestine keep spirit to fight Israel. The lack in this song is, Michael only uses two instruments. I think it will be better if he uses more than two instruments.

To sum up, I think it is a good song especially for Muslims people whereas Jewish people purposes to destroy Muslims people as mentioned in Koran, Jewish people will never happy until Muslims people join their religion. I like this song because this is a song that is dedicated for Islam.