Isaac Slade, Joe King, Ben Wysocki, and Dave Welsh make up the popular rock/ pop band The Fray. With their first album, How to Save a Life, this band appeared on everyone’s radar. The Fray’s song “You Found Me” appeared on the band’s second album, The Fray. Eight months after the release of The Fray’s second album, the band released a music video for “You Found Me.” This song could have several meanings depending on different points of views. Many interpretations of the lyrics in this song portray issues in modern society like drugs and religion. Using both The Fray’s “You Found Me” lyrics along with the “You Found Me” music video, we can interpret connections to Christianity, drug use, and tragic accidents of the lyrics in this song and tie
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Religion has a major impact on today’s society, as well. Christianity is one of the most popular religions in the world today, next to Islam. It is practically tradition now to attend church Sundays, typically in the morning, for Christians. Isaac Slade fits into this Christian category, and often mentions God in interviews like in the one in which he spoke about the inspiration for this song. The relationship between religion is present to many and can be displayed by charts like Billboards top Christian hits list for 2014. In this specific chart, the connection between “You Found Me” and religion is plainly displayed. “You Found Me” was popular enough to be on the top Christian hits list for 240 weeks (Billboard), even five years after being released. The struggle between believing in God and not believing is also a strong battle in society. Slade also brings this concept to the surface. Slade shouts “where were you when everything was falling apart… my days were spent by the telephone that never rang.” Many people choose to be categorized as nonbelievers because of that very reason. Tragic events happen every day and many people turn to praying to God in these times. However, not every prayer is answered and people begin to feel like God is not even there when they want him the most, leading to the classification of atheist. Tying religion and “You Found Me” together is the best assumption behind the lyrical
Religion has a major impact on today’s society, as well. Christianity is one of the most popular religions in the world today, next to Islam. It is practically tradition now to attend church Sundays, typically in the morning, for Christians. Isaac Slade fits into this Christian category, and often mentions God in interviews like in the one in which he spoke about the inspiration for this song. The relationship between religion is present to many and can be displayed by charts like Billboards top Christian hits list for 2014. In this specific chart, the connection between “You Found Me” and religion is plainly displayed. “You Found Me” was popular enough to be on the top Christian hits list for 240 weeks (Billboard), even five years after being released. The struggle between believing in God and not believing is also a strong battle in society. Slade also brings this concept to the surface. Slade shouts “where were you when everything was falling apart… my days were spent by the telephone that never rang.” Many people choose to be categorized as nonbelievers because of that very reason. Tragic events happen every day and many people turn to praying to God in these times. However, not every prayer is answered and people begin to feel like God is not even there when they want him the most, leading to the classification of atheist. Tying religion and “You Found Me” together is the best assumption behind the lyrical