#1 for the Funeral Soundtrack

"She's in love with a boy" - Trisha Yearwood

If someone posed a question on musical tastes, I would certainly be one of the first to vehemently deny a love, or a even a liking, for country music. But that does not change the fact that I grew up around it. It was all that my mother listened to; in the car or in the house, it was everywhere.

For me, this song was the epitome of what I intended my adolescent year to resemble. It's funny that at such a young age I already knew that I wanted to be in love with a boy and for my mother to defend me and my heart when my father figure did not approve of the boy that was so dashing in my own mind.

But, it did not necessarily turn out that way.

There was only one boy that I ever dated and remember my mother not being fan of, and that was solely because I decided to hit the pavement and jump on the highway heading north without exactly explaining where it was I was going. I spent a week with my "grandparents", visited the Mall of America, and ruined my parents anniversary. And I lied, a lot, because I wanted so badly to fall in love.

But I didn't.

And my mother certainly did not defend my so-called "love" for this boy to my dad. They sided with each other. I'm pretty sure that's not how Trisha Yearwood wrote the song.