I am a fan of Daughtry because their music provides the soundtrack to my life. I don’t think it is possible to really experience music unless you are able to connect with it on a personal level. Daughtry’s lyrics and music seem to fit perfectly in many life situations – positive or negative, fun or sad, relating to love or loss, and many other things.

Picture my college roommate and I, sitting in our dorm room, hashing out personal issues that are troubling us about ourselves and each other. We each see fault in things that we’ve done, vowing to make an effort to make things right. In the movie of my life, “It’s Not Over” might play in the background, conveying to the audience that we are both going to “try to do it right this time around”. “Used To” may also provide fitting background music in this situation, as we both ask ourselves – “can we get this back to how it used to be?” We may also hope that in the future, we take each other “for who [we] are, and not for who [we’ve] been”, reflecting on the changes in our lives with the song “Sorry”.

In a more positive, upbeat scene, imagine my girlfriends and I together, dancing around the room being silly, head banging, singing into our hair brushes, and having a good time. Are we celebrating the liberation from an evil ex-boyfriend? “Over You” may then be the song we are singing out in joyful unison. Perhaps we just feel like spontaneously letting loose and having fun? “There and Back Again” or “What I Want” are two distinct, anthemic rock tunes that would be blaring from the speakers of the room.

Picture an interaction with a fellow college student, picking apart things that I do in life or religion that he sees as wrong. Or even a scene where I am sitting alone at a desk, papers spread all around, my hands exasperatedly tangled in my hair, ready to give up, whispering to myself “it’s not the time to breakdown”. As this quote suggests, in each of these life movie scenes, one might consider “Breakdown” a fitting track. This song exposes the frustrations of hypocrisy and alludes to times of fragile mental and emotional health – both common occurrences in my life story.

Again picture a scene in the movie of my life, turning to the special person who has helped me get through all of these stresses. These trying issues could have very well been “the death of me”, but this particular individual “breathed [his] breath in me”, so to speak, and helped me persevere. Undeniably, “Crashed”, or even “What About Now” would be appropriate songs to highlight the role of this person who helped me become “all that I was meant to be”.

One may also picture the final scenes of a movie such as that of my life, me driving down a long, empty highway towards “the place where I belong”. The place where “feeling good don’t ever cost a thing”. The place where I can feel loved and set aside memories about the stressful, high-paced, busy college lifestyle. A fitting final track to the movie of my life would be “Home”, as it stirs thoughts of security, peace, love, and connections to my family. Things that will always remain in my life, through thick and thin.

“Home” is a special song that I share with my mother, who would be my guest if I win the opportunity for one-on-one interactions with the Daughtry guys.

I am a fan of Daughtry because their music is the perfect soundtrack to my life, and Chris, Joey, JP, Josh, Jeremy (and even their newest addition, Brian) are the ideal storytellers.