Name: Macklemore (b. 1983) Nationality: American Fact: Macklemore’s real name is Ben Hammond Haggerty.
Features in common
Next you will read a song based on the theme of love and equality. Before you do, working with a classmate or in a small group, discuss the similarities and differences between a song and a poem. Use a Venn diagram to show your work.
Song features Poem features
Go to YouTube and search ‘Same Love Macklemore’ to hear this song.
‘Same Love’ BY MACKLEMORE
When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay, ’Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight. I told my mom, tears rushing down my face She’s like ‘Ben you’ve loved girls since before pre-k, trippin’.’ Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn’t she? Bunch of stereotypes all in my head. I remember doing the math like, ‘Yeah, I’m good at little league.’ A preconceived idea of what it all meant For those that liked the same sex Had the characteristics The right-wing conservatives think it’s a decision And you can be cured with some treatment and religion Man-made rewiring of a predisposition Playing God, aw nah here we go America the brave still fears what we don’t know And ‘God loves all his children’ is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-fi ve-hundred years ago I don’t know
