Mkto American Dream Analysis

The song, “American Dream”, by MKTO inspires me in many different aspects of life. Because of the upbeat and happy sounding tune, some people do not see the true meaning and cannot distinguish what the song is about. I did not understand the meaning the lyrics until long after I had already been listening to the song. This song has changed me and its meaning has helped to open my eyes and understand society. Make a life for yourself. When they were driving down the road, trying to get away from their home town, their car died. This generation of Americans was born to run from the past generations and be different. They are trying to go to California, where there is more life and fun and adventure, so that they can escape their boring home town. As they say goodbye to their boring past, the new generations accept and want the newer material things in life. All the older, more wise people tell the new generations that if one wants the important things in life, one must start from the bottom. The new generations do not want to always have a little family or a job. They want to live life their way with their own rules. The less experienced generations will sometimes rise above the older wiser ones. Also, many

This song was “our” song. We would plug in his phone and play this song on repeat for hours. We did not really listen to the lyrics, except that we wanted to get out. Patrick and I were hard to separate. I wanted to be with him a lot of the time. Most times that I heard this song, one would see a huge smile appear on my face. Then, slowly, the smiles stopped appearing and Patrick and I drifted apart. We would fight much of the time; neither of us were happy. We eventually stopped talking and ended our relationship in a rough way. I did not listen to the true meaning of the song until after the end of Patrick and I’s