By Angelina Perez, Arts and Entertainment Editor
As the semester comes to a close and the final arts and entertainment (A&E) article for fall 2024 is published, Jill’s and my time as your editors comes to an end. We’re grateful for the opportunity to bring you A&E news throughout the year, and we’re excited to see how the Jasper Jams will continue to evolve in the future. This final 2024 edition of Jasper Jams may not directly reflect the bittersweet feelings I’m experiencing as we wrap up this chapter, but that’s the beauty of music, it allows us to connect our emotions with the songs that resonate with us in the moment. This may be our last time signing off as A&E editors, but it certainly won’t be the last you see our names in this section.
Phoebe Bridgers – I Know The End
Phoebe Bridgers opens the song with a reference to Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, yearning to be home and out of where she is, saying her comfort is her room. Every Saturday morning, listening and editing A&E articles as they come in, I was able to find comfort in my room knowing I would be back there another weekend reading and writing.
Favorite lyrics: “Man, I hate this part of Texas / Close my eyes, fantasize / Three clicks and I’m home”
ABBA – Slipping Through My Fingers
While I have no doubt whoever takes over this section will do a wonderful job, it is sad to see my time as an editor finished, slipping onto the next person. Like this song, the feeling is bittersweet watching both The Quadrangle and myself grow up as time goes by. I cannot wait to see the wonderful articles pitched for future issues.
Favorite lyrics: “Slipping through my fingers all the time / I try to capture every minute / The feeling in it, slipping through my fingers all the time”
Lord Huron – The Night We Met
The Night We Met is a classic heartbreak song that is guaranteed to make anyone who hears the first cord bawl into their hands. I am writing this article during the second day of the play I am in, “And Then There Were None”. I owe The Quadrangle everything for allowing me to get back into theater. Take me back to the night I realized it.
Favorite lyrics: “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do / haunted by the ghost of you / Oh, take me back to the night we met.”
One Direction – Night Changes
I have always been a Directioner and I will continue to love them forever. Similar to this song and it’s beautiful lyrics, as a senior I am getting older and it is my time to graduate in May and it is all I have been thinking about as the days of this semester come to a close. I can almost remember entering the Quad room my freshman year not knowing this publication would change my life forever.
Favorite lyrics: “We’re only getting older, baby / And I’ve been thinking about it lately / Does it ever drive you crazy / Just how fast the night changes?”
Sabrina Carpenter – Don’t Smile
I have learned as senior year slowly approached and reached that I haven’t allowed myself to cry yet because then it would feel too real. Just as the song mentions crying when it’s over, I’ve shed a few tears reminiscing on my years loving this section and putting my heart into it. Through this song, I am reminded that it is okay to indulge myself into the sadness that is graduating.
Favorite lyrics: “Don’t smile because it happened, baby, cry because it’s over / (I want you to miss me)”