Song Perceptions

For my blog post I chose to embed a video of a song called Ghost On The Dance Floor by Blink 182. I chose this song because I like it and it has a lot to do with perceptions. Tom DeLonge, the song's writer, has said "Ghost on the Dance Floor" is specifically about "hearing a song you shared with someone that's passed."[1] He also said that "It's about being somewhere and hearing a song, which you shared with someone who has passed away, but you can feel them that night."[2]

Some lyrics that illustrate this are:

• "Where the song was slowly starting, the memory felt so real."
•  "If I never leave this dance floor, I'll never leave you here."
•  "Yea I, I saw your ghost tonight, the moment felt so real."
•  "To know you're almost mine, but dreams are all I feel."

In general, songs can mean different things to different people depending on what's happened in their past or where they were the first time they heard a song. Different perceptions can change the meaning of songs for different people.

The standards I used in this blog post:

1.  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.2.B
   Use a colon to introduce a list or quotation.
2.  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.2.C
   Spell correctly.
3.  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.1
   Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

I hope you like the song as much as I do.  




1) Heisel, Scott (October 2011). "Re-Start The Machine". Alternative Press (Alternative Magazines Inc.) (279): p.93–102. ISSN 1065-1667.

2) "10 Things You Need to Know About the New Blink Album". Kerrang!. August 2011. p. 6