Theme Song Blog

The song I chose was Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Ray. This song seemed to speak to me when I was thinking of the tone and subject matter of the book so far. The tone of the book has been pretty dark so far and this song has an almost eerie and sad vibe to it. Some of the lyrics also spoke to me when I began to think of some of the characters. A lyric that is constantly repeated is "will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful" this just spoke to me because it seems that beauty and popularity in a sort pop up as themes of this book a lot. How Pecola feels ugly and how Clauida and Frieda feel ugly and angry that some people like Maureen look better then they do. The song is sort of talking about their lives in the since of beauty. As well as sort of the idea of love through out the novel. How it is hard to tell that some parents in the novel love their kids. It is hard to tell if Pecola's mom loves her after she loved on the little white girl like she was suppose to love on Pecola for accidently dropping the pie. However, she beat her. Almost as if Pecola was just an ignorant burden to her. The song is dark like this novel and it just speaks and has those qualities that what Lana Del Ray is conveying in her song is similar to what is happening in the novel, even if the lyrics don't directly apply to it. 

Here is a link to the song on YouTube, I hope it works and if it doesn't, then just look up- "Young and Beautiful" by Lana Del Ray

Link: www.vevo.com/.../Young-and-Beautiful/USUV713008