WP 2 Final Draft: Desert Island Album
Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream”
The album that I chose to bring to my desert island is Teenage Dream, released in 2010, artist Katy Perry, the cover has her image lying on her stomach covered with clouds, the image by itself attached me to feel that sense of tranquility in which she is expressing. This is the sensation I want to feel in my desert island, serene, no worries just a “Teenage Dream” running away in my desert island without turning back. The sound tracks in this album revolves around young love, partying, self-empowerment, and personal growth. These themes will distract my mind to make me feel motivated and happy in my desert island, Katy Perry has a magnetic voice that will take me to those places deep in my subconscious I know that is where I want to be, and that is what I want to feel, the songs will bring me to life listening to the lyrics of each song. The choruses of each song are the fragments that connected me the most, and by memorizing them when I start feeling anxious or scared, they will soothe me completely.
1. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
[Chorus]
Last Friday night
Yeah, we danced on tabletops
And we took too many shots
Think we kissed, but I forgot
Last Friday night
Yeah, we maxed our credit cards
And got kicked out of the bar, so we hit the boulevard
Last Friday night
In the chorus of “Last Friday Night” her excitement of dancing, drinking, living to the limits transports me to remember my best friends and how we would gather on weekends to spend a night out, those were the best nights with them. This song gets all my happy emotions out and makes me think of all those “crazy” teenage weekends that I had back in my teenage years. Perry explains that this song is about having fun and forgetting all those hard things that life brings you. It is a song where you just lose yourself and have no regrets of what you did last night.
If I start to experience the hot weather of the desert I will imagine being in LA enjoying summer vacations on the beach, “California Gurls” will take me to this moment, thinking about the palm trees, bikinis, the sun absorbing in my skin then taking a dip in the beach to wash out the summery sensation feeling refreshed and clean. When the sun gets tired and goes to rest, I will lie down on the sand and be prepared to gaze at the moon and stars with all of my soul, each star that I see will be as if I were looking at fireworks, with the song “Firework”, I will cherish my own being and be aware of how I am so tiny compared to the cosmic universe that I live in but we all share a common light, and each star represents me in a way that gives life to the night, if I didn’t shine then the universe would be only plain darkness. These two songs go hand in hand. Perry talks about the California girls to be very attractive and hot and crazy. She states in her song; “California girls, We’re unforgettable, Daisy dukes, Bikinis on top, Sun-kissed skin
So hot”. She is a California girl and she is saying that California girls are the hottest and best girls to party and be with. She applauded herself and all of her California girlfriends. The song “Firework” comes next. In this song Perry talks about the love of her life and she is resembling it to a firework. “Because baby you are a firework”, in these lyrics she is saying that the love of her life is like a firework because he sparkles, he’s so outstanding, and very attractive. You can see the double meaning of Perry’s description of the guy she loves and a firework. These two songs remind me of the time I lived in California with all those “California Girls” walking on the beach and really being very attractive like Perry says. Then I transition to the nights like 4th of July, New Years, and many more holidays were in California the used to have all these pretty and amazing fireworks. I lived in California for 3 years and these two songs summarize my time there.
[Chorus]
In another life, I would be your girl
We’d keep all our promises, be us against the world
In another life, I would make you stay
So I don’t have to say you were the one that got away
In the mornings when I go out for a walk, remembering the song “The One That Got Away” makes me think about my old loves and teaching me not to linger on thinking on the mistakes that I made and not just repeating in my head the same situation not letting it go, but at the same time not letting events control me, instead learning about that it wasn’t meant to be and maybe in another life I can be with her. The song name of this song is very self-explanatory. The name of the song summarizes all the lyric songs. I have a very deep connection to this song. I used to date a girl for 5 years. When I moved to college, we broke up due to distance problems. I listened to this song during that time I broke up with her. This song has all my sad and depressed feelings that I felt during that break up. The song resembles all the times I cried and I felt very sad about leaving what I thought was the “love of my life”.
Teenage Dream Lyrics
If I start to feel some kind of energy or that someone else was with me, the chorus of “E.T” and “Teenage Dream” will get hold of my own feelings permitting myself to just “feel”, not tending on forgetting that I can feel and accept that feeling as mine, not abandoning it as if it wasn’t worth, instead allow the sensation it can bring. These two songs remind me of the same thing, when I used to the a junior and senior in high school and I just to party with my friends. “E.T”. was the most popular song due to Kanye West being part of the song, they used to play this song at every party or event. “Teenage Dreams” was also played at every party due to being the most popular song for over a year. All the girls used to sing this song late at night and imagine their “teenage dream.” These two songs bring out my happy and outgoing emotions. They resembled all those good times I had, all the friends and girlfriends I made when I was younger, and all those irresponsible nights that every teenager has in high school.
“Who Am I Living For?” Chorus
“I can see the writing on the wall,
I can’t ignore this war,
At the end of it all,
Who am I living for?”
After I recognize my feelings, I should know that I have a sense of purpose in this life even though being in the desert can make me not see this, answering the question like the song “Who Am I Living For?” will make this misunderstanding go away and help me focus on thinking that I should have a purpose in my life or maybe I am living for someone else, and giving that happiness and self-worth to others than myself. This song is the ultimate song that I would listen at my desert island. After all those feelings that all those songs bring out of me this song puts me in a reflection mode. When I listen to this song I think about: Why am I breathing? What’s is my goal in life? What is my purpose? All this questions and deeper thoughts come to my brain and it makes me focus on what I need to do in life to be happy and reach my overall life goal. This song shines the light on the goals that I have in my life and lets the things not letting me reach my goal slowly disappear
This album is the album that I must correlate with. It reminds me and shows all my emotions from all the happy times I’ve had to all the sad/depressed times. This is the album I would take to my desert island because it summarizes all my teenage years. This album was released as I was in my teenage years, so the album makes me who I am due to all the songs reminding me of the emotions I have. The album would never bore me because it has a mix of sad to happy to reflective songs. For me, it is the best mixed emotions album ever released and I would not change it for anything. It would make me show all my feelings in my desert island.
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