Songs with Stories

Song: Sk8terboy by Avril Lavigne

Plot:  Once upon a time there was a punk, he was a skater and he was in love with "girl".  Girl was secretly in love with Skaterboy too, but would never admit it because her friends thought he was yucky.  Time goes on and Skaterboy becomes a big rock star and girl is a sad sad stay at home mom.

Characters:
Skaterboy
Girl
Girl's Friends
Narrator, Avril Lavigne, a.k.a. the girl who ends up getting the boy

Conflict:  Girl and Skaterboy are in love, but girl is so overcome with her snobbishness and cares too much what her friends think so she stays away from skaterboy.  Girl gets preggers, has children, and wishes she had gotten together with skaterboy but it's too late.  He's with someone else now.

Theme: You need to follow your heart instead of listening to everyone else, or else you'll miss your chance.

Setting:  Presumably a high school in the beginning, then girl's future house, and the rocking concert where skaterboy performs (and then the studio where Narrator and Skaterboy record the song).

Song: Farmer's Daughter by Crystal Bowersox

Plot: Narrator is a simple girl wracked with the grief caused by her father all throughout her life.  All her life her and her brother have been neglected, ignored, and abused by their father.  The girl is making her stand and finally telling her mother that she is disowning her father. 

Characters:
Narrator, Crystal Bowersox, the daughter
Father
Mother
Brothers
Daughter's son

Conflict: All her life she's been abused by her father, and so finally she's making her stand and disowning him.  She recounts how in the past he would come home drunk and beat her and her brothers, and so now all after this time she won't take it anymore.  From now on he'll spend the rest of his life alone.

Theme: Breaking free, independence, overcoming traumatic things. 

Setting:  Assumed rural community, old run down house and simple looking school.  A hotel room where the narrator stays with her young son.