LilyLunaPotter331's RG Diaries: February, Entry 1

February, Entry 1

Sunday February 1st, 2014Come on, come on…Another celeb fan site?! I quit!

This cold afternoon in February, 2014, I was searching -- again -- for just the right website that defined lyrics. I mean, really! I have no idea what those lines in Summertime Sadness mean. They’re so confusing! One moment she’s saying that she’s feeling electric, the next, she’d happily die! I don’t get this song!

All the sites I’ve found so far are those that give info on what the artist said about the song. Nothing close to what I really want to find...One where they give you definitions for specific lines. And I mean DEFINITIONS, not just plain quotes that are irrelevant to the lines I don’t understand!

I’m about to shut the computer down and continue reading Harry Potter in my room, and keep thinking about what the lyrics in Idina Menzel’s Let it Go mean. But then, I saw another link. This one had a weird description, something about her album being written for a dead boyfriend. The title of the link was “Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness Lyrics | Rock Genius”. Genius? The word caught my attention. Not a lot of websites are called that. In fact, no website I’ve visited had that in the title. None. (Also, my smarty-pants friend, also known as Katniss on RG, was obsessed with intelligence and all that back then, so the word “genius” had to catch my attention.)

The next click of my mouse changed my life; I kid you not.

Over the next fifteen minutes, I gained so much understanding of the song that it overwhelmed my mind. I haven’t learned so much in school since the fifth grade! The annotations on it were extremely descriptive, and were very easy to understand. I knew what that electric part meant (thanks, BigBadBonj!)

I tried to click the green button with an arrow pointing upwards, but it said I had to either login or create an account. And, because I was so grateful for the song, I signed up and vowed to help others understand lyrics the way those contributors did for me. I vowed to do my best on my annotations.

Deciding on my username was hard. I didn’t want plain, old Jess Maxwell. So I tried Lily Luna Potter, but spaces weren’t allowed in a username. LilyLunaPotter didn’t seem right. Sometimes, adding numbers to names and titles made them sound more official. My lucky number was three, so a three-digit would work. My birthday was March the 31st, so that was two threes and a one...LilyLunaPotter331 sounded just right!

Back when I just joined, the top of the page was advertising the new Apple RG app. The whole webpage slid down whenever I moved my mouse toward it. But I still saw the thing about how adding my first profile photo would get me 100 Rock IQ, so I added Elsa from Frozen.

On the same day, I searched for Idina Menzel’s version of Let it Go, but couldn’t find it, so I transcribed it and wrote a few annotations. I also texted a billion of my friends, telling them about the site, and a few of them joined on that day, too.
Two hours later, I finally shut the computer down, and lay down on my bed to think about what I’d say in my annotations tomorrow.

Already Addicted But Doesn't Know It,

Jess The Mess