Getting to know you By Natalie Sefilian

There are so many ways to get to know someone. And this week Ms. Lafortune has chosen to do it music style. There are so many kinds of music that I enjoy listening to. My favorite kind of music that I like best is probably country and alternative. My favorite country singer is Taylor Swift. My favorite alternative rock band/singer is Panic at the Disco. There are way too many songs that I love but I had to narrow it down to one, I couldn’t choose one but I chose three of my favorite. My all time favorite songs are, You Belong with Me by Taylor Swift, Your Call by Secondhand Serenade and none other than 7 Things by Miley Cyrus. I listen to these songs because they mean something to me. Not because I just like this song. I do, but also because I can refer to it and relate to them. You Belong With Me makes me feel like guys always for the girls with good looks. They don’t care about the girls personalities. That guys don’t realize what they have until it’s finally gone. Your Call by Secondhand Serenade makes me fell loved. I really don’t know why but the meaning of the song is a boy/band singing about a girl and telling that certain girl that he was born to tell her that he loves her. 7 things makes me feel like when you dump or get dumps, it still takes time to fully get over the person and loose all the feelings you had for the person. If you really listen to the lyrics, the song will really make you feel something. You belong with me lyrics are “But she wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts, she’s cheer captain and I’m on the bleachers, dreaming about the day when you wake up and find that what you’re looking for has been here the whole Time.” Your call lyrics are “I was born to tell you I love you, and I am torn to do what I have to, to make you mine, stay with me tonight.” 7 things lyrics are “ the 7 things I hate about you, Your vein, your game, your insecure, you love me, you like her, you make me laugh, you make me cry, I don’t know which side to buy, your friends are jerks when you act like them just to know it hurts, I want to be with the one I know, and the 7th thing I hate the most about you, You make me LOVE YOU!” When I listen to these songs I get pictures in my head. With “you belong to me” I see one girl and one guy that are best friends and they girl likes the guy but the guy is always with other girls that are more popular than his own best friends. She feels like they could only be friends and nothing more. With “7 things” I just see two teenage couples fighting and breaking up and the girl is all depressed. And the guy doesn’t really care but the girl still has feelings for the guy. With “your call” I really don’t see any picture other than just wishing that someone was actually born to tell someone that they do love them. I always listen to songs when I really feel like it. With You belong with me I listen to it usually after school because I was around a lot of drama and issues like a girl liking a guy but the guy not liking them back. I listen to & things when one of my friends breaks up with their boy friends/girlfriends but I still know they have feelings for them. But not only for that reason have I just listened to it when I feel like it. And with Your Call I listen to it when I am way depresses and had a really bad day. And trust me I have a lot of bad days.

My partner is practically one of my Best Friends. I love her. Lucy Clark is awesome. She likes listening to Hip Hop and Rap. Lucy LOVES the song Forever and Always by Taylor Swift. This songs makes Lucy feel happy and sad at the same time. She felt like this because what her boyfriends says to her and it’s a break up song so she just thinks about him, but this song always makes her happy because it has a good beat and lyrics. “I was there when you said forever and always, did you mean it baby? I don’t think so.” “You looked me In the eye and told me you loved me.” When Lucy listens to thins song she gets a picture of her and her boyfriend going through what she does in the song. Lucy gets memories of hearing Hunter (her boyfriend) tell her forever and always. She usually listens to this song when she and her boyfriend are fighting or when she is sad. But I hope Lucy doesn’t have to listen to it a lot because I would never want to see her hurt.

See, music isn’t just lyrics to a beat. If you really listen to the lyrics of the song, then you will start feeling something. It might be a weird feeling but once you truly get into the song, you will realize that music has a lot more meaning to it. As you can tell Lucy and I we like different types of music, but we still Love each other. We don’t completely like different music because we are always listening to the same songs but we have different meanings to the same song. Because we are both different people.