Rooting for you by London Grammar

Just taking the title, the reader expects something dynamic thanks to the use of progressive aspect in “Rooting”. In addiction, the indirect you pronounis the most stressed word in the title so that one may be curious to understand why the speaking voice in the song wants TO ROOT for the specific YOU.

According the Cambridge dictionary, to root for somebody.

Now considering the layout the reader can realise the songi s arranged into two verse and two chorous having different functions. While the verse provides information about the content, the chorous adds the emotional level relying on a refrain structure that puts YOU at the focus of the message.

A denotative analysis introduces the reader to the singer’s love story and conveys her inner mood and feelings. There is an immediate contrast between the winter break and the verb burn that is generally conected to something hot.

What’s more the singer’s desire to see the partner is underlined by”again”. As a result there is a strong feeling of loss in the singer’s mood. Who is ready to root for him before meetig him and despite he’s not kept his promise, as the expression like I told you I would highlight.

The desperate feeling of loss and disilusionment of the speaking voice is conveyed by the repetitionof the subject pronoun I, thus adding a lyrical tone to the song.

The decleration of the singer’s readiness to always love him comes to surface at line 5, but she expresses some doubts about that because since she has often fel lonely even in his presence, she is at one time happy to be with hima gain and on the other scared of lioneless. The incremental repetition of “when I’m, when I’m reforces the feelings of lack and unsatisfied expectition.

Later in the song, the chorous shows where the lyrical I makes it clear that the relationship will be a very hard one. The second line of the chorous syntesises (to som up) the most intimate singer’s desire. All of her most inner are expressed by the chorous and she wonders whet her she is all for him as he is all for her. Her doubt is graphetically shown by the question mark. The sad quality of the song and of course of the singer’s mood is there at line 6 of the chorous which comunicates that YOU is the only thing I’ve evr truly known. Her vision of the world seems confined to the existence of YOU. The repetition of it is only and you are only thing underline her feeling, she believes in his uniqueness.