Songs of California

Hello fellow Bloggers!

Since our writing assignment thus far is to post our potential choice for a song about California, I figured I would post my choice, some ideas and a video/music clip.

After trying to decide from about four different choices, I've decided to use "Meet Me in California" by the Plain White T's as the song for this first paper. The lyrics make sense for the most part. The singer mainly talks about an undesirable situation at home where he "wishes that [he] could start again, peel the past like sunburned skin." He also describes the night where he makes his decision to leave as "a bible verse with pages torn and missing words, condemning me and I'm on my knees." Obviously, the conditions of his life at home could be improved, and he feels that going to California will rectify them.

I also imagine that he is talking to a woman whom he cares about, considering that he mentions how he "doesn't want to see [her] cry, [he] just wants to see [her] smile again." For them, in this sense, the California Dream involves leaving a dreary life behind for a bright new future in what some people refer to as the promised land. The singer also indicates in the verse, " 'cause you know in California there's something better for us all,"that California is a place of refuge for anyone who needs it.

For someone who does not particularly like alternative rock that much, I find the song pretty catchy. The music seems simple, but varies just enough so that the message is still understandable and isn't ignored by monotonous sounding tunes. Here is a link to the lyrics. Below you'll find an audio track from YouTube.