Overcoming Adversity

Almost everybody has experienced a situation where they have had to overcome an obstacle. As we grow up and grow older, we may have to face situation where our goals, dreams, and plans for the future are criticized and taunted. In those situations, we have to rise up and go above to achieve our dreams. A Day to Remember’s song “Right Back at it Again” takes this theme of overcoming adversity and combines it with lead vocalist Jeremy McKinnon’s personal story of forming the band back in 2003 and the hard work it took to rise above the critics and become successful, no matter what.
McKinnon starts off by singing, “Started out in the spring of 2003 / Never went to school, nobody talked to me / Except to tell me all the things I couldn’t do / …show more content…
The chorus echoes the theme of the song: “So here I am, I’m right back at it again / Just like I’ve always said, if you're too cool for school / You ain’t here to make no friends.” McKinnon knows that even though he struggles with his musicianship, he’ll always go “right back at it again”, constantly doing what he loves no matter what challenges he faces to make it in the music industry. In the …show more content…
My high school marching band has had to face many challenges due to our lack of funding and small number of students. We work just as hard as larger, more affluent bands, but we don’t get the same reward because we just don’t have enough money or enough people to impress the judges. This past season, we finally received a Superior rating and performed at state competition. It took many seasons of hard work without reward, hours upon hours of long practices, and every ounce of strength we had to achieve this goal. Everyone in my marching band knows what it means to go “right back at it again” and keep working throughout