Don't You Forget About Me

My song is Don't You Forget About Me, by the Simple Minds. This song is mostly know for its major appearance in the movie called the Breakfast Club. To understand the song you first have to understand what is going on in the movie. The movie is about these kids who are in high school and attending saturday school, for various but important reasons. They all come from a different group of people, so this means that they would never normally talk to each other. This saturday school experience brings together the group of kids, from the deep conversations they have and also the fun that they have together. At the end of the movie one kid asks if they were going to talk to each other, come monday when they are back at school. Most of them are unsure that they will even look at each other again. As much as they want to talk to each other, they feel pressured by the peers in their group to avoid the ones who do not belong with them. Now with this explanation of the movie, the song blatantly says "dont you, forget about me", which could easily be seen as the kids in saturday school not wanting to let go of the experience that have they associating themselves with other groups of kids. Other lyrics such as "will you recognize me? Call my name or walk on by.", reiterate the fact that they may not converse with each other when the next school week starts. Now, looking at the lyrics with out reference to the movie, it could be seen as a different meaning. By just watching the music video and listening to the song, it sounds just like your typical British 1980's pop-love song. When he says the word "baby", it makes it seem more like its about a girl that he wants back, or one that he has not had yet.

Flapper to Rappers

I think the use of the modern rap music was great for the movie since it did come out in 2013. By this, I mean a lot of the younger crowd today will listen to this music just as young adults would listen to jazz in the 1920's. Another connection is how back in the gilded age jazz was looked at as the music that should be frowned upon, just as rap could be looked at as frowned upon in this era. For the movie, although it looked like it was in the 20's, the music made it feel like it was much more modern.

Process and Product

I think it was actually a good thing for me to get the drafts done early that way I can have more time to revise and read over my paper, this way I can catch grammatical errors and other problems with my paper. Considering, there were a lot of small grammatical errors with my paper it was less of a hassle trying to edit my paper last minute. So I would say required drafts played a big role in the way my paper is turning out. The group workshops were also a very good thing for me, because its always great to have multiple opinions from many different people. It also helped giving opinions to other people because this can help you spot errors in your own paper that you may not have given thought to before. Even if we did not have the required drafts I would have still started my paper early, but I may not have had the time to work on it that I do now. I really do want to emphasize the importance of these required drafts because this gives you an idea of how the process of writing a paper should work.