Modern day artists with connections to transcendentalism, What?

                              Modern day artists with connections to transcendentalism, What?

 The script, Creedence Clearwater revival, and Lil Uzi, all 20th and 21st century musicians who have connections through transcendentalist ideas. Despite each musician being from a different time period, they all each have one piece of music that brings them together; The script’s “Hall of Fame”, lil Uzi's “You was right”, and Creedence Clearwater’s “Fortunate son.” All of these great songs songs use the same basic concept of transcendentalism and discusses some of these ideas in their songs. These three pieces of music from the AMlit playlist all relate to the central ideas of transcendentalism including individualism, nonconformity and discussions about clouded judgement. The script’s “Hall of Fame”, talks about how you the individual should go about their lives independent of society and use themselves to achieve their goals. It is clear that these ideas are shown in the first verse. “You can move a mountain...you can be a master...dedicate yourself and you gon’ find yourself.” These ideas show how an individual should believe that they will be able to accomplish their goals without help from society. There is also a direct connection to Ralph Waldo Emerson's short piece of writing “Self Reliance” where he talks about these same ideas of individualism. Emerson proclaims “To believe your own thought, to believe what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,- that is genius” (Emerson, 28). Here Emerson discusses the same ideas of how an individual should act by using their own talents to go through life. Both the song and the short essay discuss the ideas of how by passing the boundaries of society you are able to accomplish your goals. Emerson and The Script both set boundaries for you all to follow. By using the ideas of individualism, “Fortunate son” also discusses the ideas of the individual protesting against society and not conforming to the rules.