"Like a Virgin"

As I grabbed my sweater to go to school I made sure to not forget my Walkman. It was a bright sunny Monday morning, and the weather still felt like it was summer. It seemed that it would take a long time for Winter to arrive. Today it was essential to bring my Walkman because today was the day that Madonna was going to release her new album “Like a Virgin.” My plan was to go to the store afterschool and purchase a cassette. When I arrived at school there were so many different emotions written across people’s faces. Not only did I see sadness and tiredness in many people, but there were some individuals who I saw constantly smiling. It was very unusual to see smiles during the first period of class on a Monday. Some of those smiles were indeed because of the excitement about the new album being released this afternoon. The smiles I saw quickly turned into anxiousness, and I got to stare into many of my peers’ eyes to see the impatience nature within them. I looked forward to the release of the album, but I wasn’t too crazy about it. In fact, I was more anxious about having an exam on a Monday morning. When it came around to the last period lunch I was on my way to the cafeteria so relieved to finally feed the monster that was growling inside my stomach. Some of my friends and I grabbed our lunches, sat down onto the uncomfortable cafeteria seats, and before I knew it my ears exploded with the yelling of others. Everyone was yelling out that there was someone right outside the school that was selling cassettes for the new album. My friends and I knew this would be our best shot in hearing the album before anyone else does so we agreed that at least one of us had to buy it. Soon after we quickly ran outside and pushed through a crowd of people to buy the cassette. I was the one who managed to buy one of the cassettes among my group of friends so we walked back into the building and started listening to the album. After all of us heard the song that was named after the album “Like a Virgin” everyone was really confused as to the meaning of the song. Some people believed that it was just Madonna singing about an experienced man giving his love to her, but others like me believed otherwise. There was a very deep emotional message I believe she was trying to sing about. I gathered up a large crowd of people and gave them my interpretation. I told them “Let me tell you what ‘Like a Virgin’ is about…”  “It's about a girl who's experiencing something she's never felt before, like when she had sex for the first time” I said. “Something eventful in her life that's as big or bigger than when she lost her virginity. So, in this case it’s most likely love, happiness, and a feeling of being complete. Feelings that she's never felt with anyone else before.” After that tiny speech there was laughter among many of my peers. I could see that some people agreed with me, but mostly everyone was just coming up with their own nonsensical interpretation of the song. After a couple minutes a couple students came up to me and said, “No Let me tell you what ‘Like a Virgin’ is about…” When I heard that I regretted stating my interpretation of the song as I so desperately did not want to hear another one.