Mariah Carey’s song entitled “bye bye” is a song that hits hard in all emotional levels. It can make you remember happy thoughts of someone you miss or it can just remind you of the pain you’re going through because of your loss. Mariah Carey dedicates this song to everyone and anyone that has lost a loved one. She talks about the pain of realizing that the person is gone forever yet she emphasizes that she won’t say bye for they’ll live in the memories. I chose this song because I thought about the impact it brought on me when I first heard it this summer. It brought back so many memories of my recent loss. I lost my grandfather a year ago and it was the first time I had to say bye to a loved one. Id says it’s the hardest thing to do, a year later it still seems unreal and hard to accept. When I first heard the song I was on my way to an old friend’s funeral. I thought how ironic that I turn the radio on and this song is on just now out of all moments. When I heard it I didn’t just think of the friend I had just lost but of my grandfather as well. I would say that like Mariah says in her song the hardest thing to do is say bye. I thought of how when I heard of my loved ones being gone I cried wondering if there was something I could do to make them come back. Like she says I think we’d all give the world to see that someone one last time and tell them all the things we didn’t get to because we didn’t know we wouldn’t have that second chance.
I picked the parts of the song that to me meant the most or brought out the deeper meaning of the song. I chose to keep the black font because it is a sad song it really doesn’t have any happy feeling to it so bright colors weren’t an option. I decided to go with the script font because when you hear the song or even read the lyrics you might get the sense that you’re reading a letter. She is pretty much singing directly to the person therefore I also got the letter feel from that. There were words that I felt needed emphasis. For instance the word world to me needed to stand out; I gave it its own line adding blue and green color because to me they represent the world pretty accurate like the globe view. It was important to have this word be big and stand out to emphasize the extreme one would go for that person. I chose to replace the word you with a just the letter u, I felt that the letter it self made more of a stand then the word. I made other words a little bigger and bolder then the rest to again show their power and impact of the feeling represented by the word. For instance the words; strong, gone, hardest, and never. Again everything is pretty simple and black the only other color I used was the red on the word hurt I think that when we think of hurt or pain we think of the color red, most things that warn you or demonstrate some kind of hurt are usually put in red. Bye bye is pretty much faded when sung and since it is the key element to the song I decided to make it a faded font to show the softness of saying the word. When you hear the song there really isn’t much of a difference in tone therefore everything was kept pretty much the same, the words that she seems to emphasize in her singing I pretty much made them bigger and bolder.