My Chosen Poem

The lyrics I chose are from the song “Radio by Beyonce”. Beyonce talks about the radio as if it were a man and how she’s in love with it. It is fair to say that people can only fall in love with people, so for Beyonce to say that she is in love with a radio, shows the metaphorical relationship between a man and a radio.

Usually, people are capable of letting you down, not objects. Beyonce states “I think I’m in love with my radio because it never lets me down”. This shows that she sees her radio as if it were a human being, personifying it. Additionally, she refers to her mother and father’s points of view on the “radio” and how they don’t mind them “hanging out”. Normally, parents would be concerned about their daughters hanging out with people that could potentially be their partner in a relationship. Beyonce also states “He's got a place in my heart” She refers to the radio as a male and that “he” has got a place in her heart.

Beyonce is from the music industry, and the cultural significance this song has is that they are quite big on music, and the radio being a form of playing of music, she shows her love and importance towards it by symbolizing it and personifying the radio as a man.

Radio – Beyonce

I think I'm in love with my radio

Because it never lets me down

And I fall in love with my stereo

Whenever I hear that sound

The only one that papa allowed to hang out in my room with the door closed

We'd be alone

And mama never freaked out when she heard it go boom [chuckle]

'Cause she knew we were in the zone

Hold him in my arms and look out on my window at the moonlight

And he, deep, keepin' me close so I never let him go

He's got a place in my heart