Fifteen Lyrics You take a deep breath and you walk through the doorsIt's the morning of your very first dayYou say "Hi" to your friends you ain't seen in a whileTry and stay out of everybody's wayIt's your freshman year and you're gonna be hereFor the next four years in this townHoping one of those senior boys will wink at you and say"You know I haven't seen you around, before"

‘Cause when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love youYou're gonna believe themAnd when you're fifteenFeeling like there nothing to figure outWell count to ten, take it inThis is life before you know who you're gonna beFifteen

Fifteen lyrics You sit in class next to a redhead named AbigailAnd soon enough you're best friendsLaughing at the other girls who think they're so coolWe'll be out of here as soon as we canAnd then you're on your very first date and hes got a carAnd you're feeling like flyingAnd you're mommas waiting up and you think hes the oneAnd you're dancing round your room when the night endsWhen the night ends

'cause when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love youYou're gonna believe themWhen you're fifteen and your first kissMakes your head spin round butIn your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy of the football teamBut I didn't know it at fifteen

Fifteen lyrics When all you wanted was to be wantedWish you could go back and tell yourself what you know nowBack then I swore I was gonna marry him somedayBut I realized some bigger dreams of mine

And Abigail gave everything she had to a boyWho changed his mind and we both cried

'cause when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love youYou're gonna believe themAnd when you're fifteen, don't forget to look before you fallI’ve found that time can heal most anythingAnd you just might find who you're supposed to beI didn't know who I was supposed to be at fifteen

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Your very first dayTake a deep breath girlTake a deep breath as you walk through those doors.

The music video I am analysing is ‘Fifteen’ by Taylor Swift . The video was directed by Roman White. The song was released on September 1, 2009 by Big Machine Records.

The genre for the song is county/pop. The typical conventions for country/pop music videos are; bright colours, close ups and extreme close ups, costume changes, dance sequences, lip synching and there is usually a lack of instruments.

‘Fifteen’ is uncommon to pop video's as it breaks and challenges the traditional conventions of a pop video. It does this by using Taylor’s star image (instrument playing) as an advantage.

This is a narrative based video with elements of performance.

‘Fifteen’ meets the common pop conventions by having a relationship between the lyrics and visuals. Throughout the song there are many examples. The first example is when Taylor sings ‘you walk through the doors’ and on screen Taylor walks through the door. Another example of this is ‘You sit in class next to a redhead named Abigail’ when this is sang, a redhead girl appears on screen. One more example of this is when the word ‘night’ is sang, on screen, night appears.

Like usual pop videos, ‘Fifteen’ uses extreme close ups and close ups of the artist. The extreme close ups of Taylor singing are used in this video to engage the target audience as if she is singing to them personally. Extreme close ups are also used to show Taylor playing her guitar, this is to allow her audience to see that she is a talented musician, whilst again linking with her star image. An establishing shot is used at the start of the video to create the setting for song.

‘Fifteen’ is very similar to the style of video commonly used by Taylor, by which, the clothes she wears, the performance based shots, and her appearance are traditional to her niche. This creates Taylor’s star image to help her sell her albums. Her hair is again in blonde curls.

When the song starts Taylor uses the notion of a flashback to when she was 15. She does this by looking at an old photo of her and her best friend.The song then flashes back to the real world at the end and shows Taylor standing in the rain at her old school. The camera focuses on a girl in the school playground to show Taylor singing to the girl because she doesn’t want her to make the same mistakes as she did when she was 15.

The song is split into two halves. The first half uses the pop conventions of being bright and happy with the sun out, whereas the second half of the song uses dark colours, pathetic fallacies and the pouring rain. This again matches lyrics to visuals, as the first half is the song is happy and the second half is sad. The video cleverly uses the weather and colours to address this.

The second half of the song is unhappy and sad. This is shown through a variety of ways. A pathetic fallacy illustrates this as when the girls are upset the weather is raining and the sky is dark just as though it is in sympathy with her. And at the end of the song Taylor is dressed in black. Black is a colour which symbolises sadness.