Twelfth Grade - Rooftops

Rooftops

The song that I chose that I feel represents the youth culture today is Rooftops by Lostprophets. Majority of adolescents today spend their time trying to make the best of the moment that they are currently in. They live in the present and don’t worry about the past or the future. Most young teenagers just worry about having fun in the moment. Throughout the song it asks questions like “When our time is up, when our lives are done, will we say we've had our fun?”

Although living in the present could be a poor decision to make, most people do it. When teenagers go out to drink and have fun with their friends they aren’t necessarily worrying about the future and where they’ll be in twenty years. In the moments prior to partying, or experimenting with drugs, most teenagers won’t be asking themselves what could go wrong. They’ll simply just do it, because all of their friends are and it seems okay.

I think that is one of the major problems there are today. Parents and the adult figures in a child’s life aren’t stressing the importance of how dangerous consuming alcohol or simply “trying” a drug could be. They only start pushing the message across in high school, but by that time it’s too late. We’ve formed our own opinions on things like alcohol and we’re not mature enough to change it. We still think nothing could go wrong and that we could never possibly regret any of the decisions we’re in the process of making. Teenagers typically won’t realize that decisions made today could change their life forever.

The chorus of the song says, “Standing on the rooftops, everybody scream your heart out.” That line is repeated multiple times. I think it shows how teenagers live for the freedom of growing up. In today’s society, most young adults take advantage of every moment they can just to live and be free. They’ll do things that make them feel daring and like they are living on the edge. Every chance we get to grow up and move further away from our parents, we take it. We live for the feeling of being happy and learning to be our own person.