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Hi, San Juan Bautista students. I hope that you're all well. First off, this week I'm going to answer some of the questions that I asked last week about the song titled Over the Rainbow from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

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and Judy Garland was the actress who sang this song when she was 16 years old

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and played the character Dorothy Gale.

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This song has hundreds of versions and you all did a great job of finding different ones

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so thank you for that.

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I think one of my favorite versions is sung by the Hawaiian artist Iz

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in his album Facing Future and he does a mashup of the song.

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This song has been selected for preservation by the USA Library of Congress,

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as well as the American Film Institute lists it as the greatest movie song of all time.

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I think that there's a few, well, there's a lot of reasons for why this song is so popular,

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but we can break it down in a few main ways.

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And first and foremost, the reason this song is so popular has to do with the meaning of the song.

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So the song expresses this optimism and hope amidst a backdrop of more yearning and dark times.

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And I think that the dichotomy of light and darkness, hope and fear is something that we as a whole society can relate to as well as people can relate to on a very individual, personal level.

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so the song has been used at many different ceremonies to kind of commemorate world

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shattering events or tragedies that have taken place and the song is used oftentimes to heal

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people the song is also an anthem of hope for the lgbtq plus community and lastly the song

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can be broken down for its musical elements such as the eight note interval or octave leap

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on the lyrics somewhere as well as the musical themes of leap circle and yearning which are very

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thematic and contribute to the ability to easily memorize the song become familiar with it and

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the reasons why you get the song stuck in your head and lastly it's discussed that there's an

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emphasis on the lyric dare when the song says, and the dreams that you dare to dream really

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do come true. So I think that the fact that the song focuses on the lyric dare says a

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lot about the meaning of the song and perhaps contributes to some of the reasons for why

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this song is so popular. Also, you all sent me great answers, so thank you for those.