Playlist By Lily Cronin
First meeting at dance
The song I’m choosing for when Romeo and Juliet first meeting is the song ”love at first sight” by Kylie Minogue.
“And everything went from wrong to right
And the stars came out to fill up the sky
The music you were playing really blew my mind
It was love at first sight”
This pretty much explains how Romeo and Juliet’s night went. First it started off all wrong. Juliet didn’t love Paris and Romeo was all sad because of Rosiline. Then when their eyes met everything went right. The music was playing and they fell in love at first sight. Romeo expresses his interest when he says “Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear,
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.”
To a capulet. He wants to meet Juliet because he claims that he already loves her.
Balcony scene
The song I’m choosing for the balcony scene is “A moment like this” by Kelly Clarkson
“A Moment like this.
Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this.
Some people search forever for that one special kiss.
I cant believe its happening to me.
Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this. “
I picked this song because when Romeo and Juliet admit their true feelings of love to each other, they have an amazing moment, like how Kelly is singing about. An epic moment. Romeo tells Juliet this “With love’s light wings did I o'erperch these walls,
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.
Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.”
Which he is telling her that he is in-love with her, and no wall could hold him back from seeing her.
Fighting scene
For the fighting scene, I picked the song “let the bodies hit the floor” by Drowning pool.
“Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Now!
Push me again (again)
This is the end
Here we go here we go here we go, now”
I picked this song because he talks about how the bodies hit the floor (like killing them) and in the fighting scene Mercutio and Tybalt die in the end.
Also at the end it says this is the end, and says here we go. That means lets go and fight. Mercutio says this to Tybalt, “Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives, that I mean to make bold withal, and, as you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out.”
When he said this to Tybalt, he is saying he want to kill him, (take one of his nine lives) This connects to this song because they both talk about killing.
Funeral scene
For the funeral scene, I’m choosing the song “my heart will go on” by Celine Dion.
“Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on.
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on
Love can touch us one time
And last for a lifetime
And never let go till we're gone”
I picked this song because it talks about how her heart is in his heart. This reminds me of how Romeo and Juliet died; as one. This song is compared to them because the song explains how someone’s heart goes on. Romeo and Juliet died together, meaning their hearts will go on together to heaven.
