I Got a Woman

Ray Charles's song I Got a Woman is a jazz song with an semi-upbeat rythm and melody. The song itself is talking about how Ray has a woman that is really good to him. Unlike the Kanye song, it is not demoralizing women but instead talking about how good this one woman is. He exlpains how she takes care of him and is only demoralizing once when he says, "she knows her place is in the home." But, back then the womans place was in the home. The tempo is kind of slow because of the jazz element. Its genre also could be categorized as rythm and blues because it gives off that melody a little bit. But the jazz part is more apparent because the lyrics are happy and talking about something good, not depressing. It gives off a happy mood and kind of makes you want to jump around and dance a bit. The instrument used are all of the jazz instruments like saxaphone. There is a sax solo in the middle of the song. Its funny how Ray Charles's song is all about how good woman are and how this one particular woman is so good to him and then Kanye takes it and completly turns it around to say how all woman are gold diggers and to watch out for them. He takes his message and flips it on its side. He takes exact lines of the "I got a Woman" song and will change one word of the song to suit "Gold Digger." Its interesting how by changing one word of a line of the song, it changes what that line means altogether.