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Ana Neal

Dr. Cassel

Eng 1201

30 October 2019

Fool for Love

Everyone experiences love differently through every period of their life. Some have more

positive experiences with love and others are so lucky. And in some instances, there are some

people who will never fall in love at all. In this essay, I will be comparing two examples of this

idea with “ Fool for You” by Ceelo Green and Snoh Aalegra. Both songs show and artist’s

experience with being in love and how they experienced it. Even though Snoh Aalegra and Ceelo

Green’s versions of “Fool for You” are both love songs, the type of love described are in contrast

with each other. As a result, the type of song will attract a different audience.

In Snoh Aalegra’s version of the song, she is talking about a relationship where she

knows she is not happy but being that she loves this person, she stays. The reason she is not

pleased in the relationship is that it is starting to remind her of a past relationship. The songs’

lyrics go on to further describe this and Snoh’s dilemma of wanting to be with a person but

knowing this relationship is not going to work for her. The same pattern appears from the

previous relationship and she takes it into consideration with the current one, “ I leave and I

come back again, I'm a Fool For You, I love you time and time again I know just how the story

ends.” This is important because one of the main themes of the song is knowing you should not
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be in a relationship but staying anyway because you love someone. This part of the song shows

this theme.

In Ceelo Green's version of the song, he is talking about being in love and how amazing

it felt to fall in love with her. Being in love with her is worth every up and down they go through

and he expresses it in this song.“That real that deep that burning the amazing unconditional

inseparable love”, it's how the song starts. Throughout the song, he praises the feeling that this

woman gives him. There are people who doubt the way he feels about this person but he does not

want to listen to them because of how she makes him feel when they are together. “ So rare they

swear that YOU! Just don’t exist - and there's only one person I can think of make me feel like

this”. He feels very passionate about this woman and makes the extremely clear, going into

detail declaring his love for this woman. Ceelo Green uses this song as a love letter to describe

the strong emotions that he feels for this woman.

In both songs, the artists are talking about love and how the people they love are affecting

them directly. Both artists use a similar theme of being in love with someone but the messages

are portrayed in very different ways. In Ceelo Green’s version, the love he describes is a love he

wants to hold on to forever and wishes everyone could feel the same way about someone. In

Snoh Aalegra’s version, she loves the person but being with them is not beneficial for either one

of them, but she is staying with them anyway. The person she loves is doing something that is

reminding her of a past partner and she knows staying in this relationship will not be good for

her in any way. Knowing this key difference in the songs is important because both songs have

an underlying theme of love but one has a more serious lesson than the other.
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The audiences a different as well. Both songs are R&B but the type of R&B is different

regarding the tone of both songs. Aalegera’s version has more of a gloomy tone which is

portrayed through the overall tone of the song. This is done with the melody and the lyrics in

which she talks about figuratively running away from this person but in end decides to stay. This

version is also geared more towards a younger audience who may be in the dating phase of a

relationship. Greene's version is very upbeat. It appeals to an older audience and more so toward

couples and people in love. Both songs use pathos to convey the overall theme.

The rendition done by Snoh Aalegra is about loving someone but knowing the

relationship with work out. This differs from Ceelo Green’s version where he is deeply in love

and wants to share this feeling with the world. Both versions of “Fool for You” talk about love

and how people experience it. The tones of the songs are different changing the context and

audiences of the songs. In conclusion, the love described in both songs are different but share a

theme about being in love.

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Works Cited

Snoh Aalegra. “Fool For You”. FEELS., Artium Recordings,2019, track 10. Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/track/3pEGNvJWWAfDSuUrQjEpEV

Ceelo Green. “Fool For You”. The Lady Killer., Elektra Recordings,2010, track 10 Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/track/1gbl7aJgaR4HFjtJVUovxH