Soundtrack Of My Life Analysis

Jennifer Brackett

Master PhiLL

English I

6 OCT 17

Soundtrack of my Life Music is a factor in my life that has played a huge role. I find myself constantly listening, singing, or dancing to new songs I find. I have realized that the music I find myself extremely attracted to, is the music that does a good job defining my personality, my experiences, or my thoughts that I cannot find the words to say out loud. Often, it seems as if the music finds me compared to me finding it. Although music allows me to express so many parts of my life, the main factor it seems to define is my past experiences. Obviously, specific songs seem to be more effective with helping me cope with the past or get a better understanding of my feelings towards an event. The first time I heard the song Daughters by John Mayer, I was in the seventh grade, about 13 years old. Now I am 18 and after hearing thousands of different songs, I still believe this is the only song that perfectly expresses my feelings on my experience with my father. In this song John Mayer allowed the lyrics to express how a father should

As John Mayer sings this song with so much passion and honestly, it reveals the question, how is somebody supposed to love a woman like that. Throughout the song, it is evident that the answer is: You can’t. How can you love somebody and have them love you back, if the man before you you didn’t? It opens the conversation about what it means to love, and how fathers can distort their daughter’s mindset of that with a blink of an eye. Further breaking down the songs meaning, it was written to show men that as a father, you set the bar for the rest of the men your daughter is willing to take into her life. If the bar is set at a low standard by the first man she ever knew, how is she expected to find a man to love her