Someone To You

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Song: Someone To You by BANNERS

Michael Joseph Nelson, also known as Banners, just found a new level of success with his song “Someone to you” landing within the soundtrack of the new Wattpad inspired movie “After.” Someone to you was released in 2017, and after its release on youtube, has over 7.8 million views. While although already having an established level of success as an artist, being featured in this movie has given him a new type of exposure to a younger and more diverse audience.

Someone to you’s lyrics are universal in the sense that depending on the person who is listening, will also affect how they may digest and process the lyrics. The first time someone listens to this song, the lyrics seem as if they are coming from the artist directly, and are aimed toward a significant other.

But in a broader sense, one can review the lyrics and take them as if the artist is just referring to life itself. When the song begins, the first lyrics are “I don’t want to die or fade away” which can been seen as if referring to life itself. But when the artist states “I just want to be someone” this can also take on a broader meaning depending on how you view it. The lyrics can make the listener feel as if the artist is singing about the overall view on life, and how he feels about it.

Later in the lyrics, the artist states “I just wanna be someone, well doesn’t everyone?” Which has the listener truly question what the song is really trying to put across.

In a sense, Someone to you, does have many meanings, it just depends on how you (the listener) interpret it. It can be a love song, aimed towards wanting to “be someone to you,” or it could be a more adventurous life song, aimed towards inspiring the mind.