The Music Playlist of My Life
Everyone loves songs. Songs make people who they are, and identify with people, but people also love playlists just as much. You can customize your playlists and listen to what you want to listen to whenever you want. Playlists calms people, hypes people up and really makes everyone feel good. When having your own playlist, you don’t even need to think you just click play and you’re in your own world, your own vibe, your own comfort zone. They are custom to you, made by you so that they can make you feel as best as possible. Everyone loves when that song comes on, the one, it, the one where you hear the first beats and you already know the feeling that’s coming next, you start to sing along or mouth the lyrics as the artist sings, the best feeling in the world. Playlists also make this special because when you hear the ending beat to a song that isn’t just the end, it’s the que that you know what song is coming on next. Bottom line, Everyone loves playlists and I’m going to write about a playlist that represents my life.
One theme that is clearly shown in my playlist is Love for sports or specifically Baseball. I don’t need much to prove this given that three out of my five songs on my playlist are about baseball, but I still will. I think that one reason a theme is love for baseball is because three songs are centered around baseball, for example one called Centerfield by John Fogarty is about him telling the coach to put him in the game which I can relate to because I play baseball on a team and make interactions with my coach. I can also relate to the songs, take me out to the ball game and meet the Mets. I love the Mets and I love baseball. These songs both are old songs and are about going to baseball games which I do and love. In the lyrics from take me out to the ball game it says, “buy some peanuts and crackerjacks I don’t care if I never get back.” The part about the peanuts and the love for the game so much that they don’t care if they get to go back really resonates with my life. That is why based on the evidence provided a Big theme in my playlist is a Love for Baseball.
My playlist also carries a counterclaim. This counterclaim would be that my playlist is about big things whether it’s physically metaphorically it’s just big things. I say this because in my playlist My other two songs are No sleep till Brooklyn by the Beastie boys and Bar Mitzvah boy by Adam Sandler. These songs may not seem to be related to big things, but they are. For example, the song Bar Mitzvah boy relates to me because I had a Bar Mitzvah, and some of the lyrics resonate with me too. For example, “Thirteenth birthday, People come from far away, Aunts and uncles show up, I brush my fro up.” These I relate to because this actually happened except I don’t have an afro. Also, the song No sleep till Brooklyn is a song about Brooklyn and is hyping it up in a way especially because the Beastie Boys lived there. All in all, my Bar mitzvah was a big moment in my life which the song relates to. Brooklyn is also a big famous place and Baseball is big because it is popular, the stadiums are big, and the fan base is big. So, with that explanation even when the majority of the songs are about Baseball this counterclaim about the theme of my playlist being About Big things can be valid based on the evidence displayed.
In conclusion the theme of my playlist is a love for Baseball. This is also concluded with a strong counterclaim being represented too. Everyone really does love songs and love’s playlists. It does really change people’s lives, and I’m glad you stuck here to read my explanation on my life in playlists.
Story written by Jonah, 13 year old Brooklyn, NY Middle School Student!
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