A Midsummer's Nightmare

Prompt: Pretend you get to create the music soundtrack for what you’ve been reading.  What five songs would you include? Write an explanation for each song: why would you include it, how does the song connect to events.
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Author: Kody Keplinger (who I met last week!  she was lovely!)

To give you a bit of background, our main character Whitley is a semi-rebellious, party animal who is in her senior year of high school.  Currently, she is on summer break and with her dad.  Though it is not the same.  This year, he has gone off and gotten engaged to a pretty but very uptight lawyer, without telling Whitley.  Obviously, she is angry and frustrated because her whole life in the summer has basically been changed, and not in a good way.  She spends a lot of her time now laying out in the sun listening to music.  So I thought she would like these songs.

1.  Joan Jett - "Bad Reputation".  I know Whitley would like this song because she has a reputation for being, well, easy.  She tries not to let it get to her, and as the song's first line goes, "I don't give a damn about my bad reputation."  She is both tough and crazy like Joan Jett, who is one of my personal favorites.

2.  Dead Kennedys - "Lets Lynch the Landlord".  This song is all about rebelling against the owner of the property you reside in, and that is something Whitley does a lot.  Either by bringing alcohol into her future step-mother's pristine home, or like the song says "I don't turn off the water, I don't turn off the heat."

3.  Alice Cooper - "School's Out".  As the title suggests, school's out for good.  Whitley is still trying to find a college suitable for her lifestyle and high school is over, making her very happy, but also nervous.  She just wants to have fun in a boring town on her summer break, but she's not happy.

4.  Morrissey - "Everyday is Like Sunday".  I have this song running through my head a lot during reading.  The lyrics suggest the narrator is in a boring, nearly desolate town, which perfectly describes Whitley's feelings towards the town she has to spend all summer in.

5. New Order - "Bizarre Love Triangle".  This is just a song I can totally see Whitley and Harrison dancing to.  Harrison is the only thing close to a friend she has there, and it's a dramatic but fun song, like their times together.