With finals week just around the corner, you’re trying to find all the reasons and ways to avoid the large to-do list sitting beside your planner. If you’re like me, it’s easy to find yourself lost in music rather than facing the fact you should be studying. Sometimes you just need that pump up song to get your motivation going, other times you need the saddest song on your playlist to be on repeat. Here are 14 times artists got the feelings of finals week right.
1. What Do You Mean? – Justin Bieber
“Professor, what do you mean by this exam is cumulative?” “What do you mean this exam is worth 25% of my grade?” “What do you mean it’s impossible to get a 345% on this exam to get an A in your class?”
2. Focus – Ariana Grande
If the title wasn’t enough to describe what you should be doing during this week, Ariana’s additional lyrics may: “I know what I came [to the library] to do…I’m over here working day and night.”
3. Pressure – Paramore
“I can feel the pressure, it’s getting closer now. We’re better off without you [finals]. Some things I’ll never know, and I had to let them go.”
4. Blank Space – Taylor Swift
“So, it’s gonna be forever or it’s gonna go down in flames. You can tell me when it’s over, if the high was worth the pain.”
“But I’ve got a blank space…and I’ll probably be writing the wrong answer.”
5. Fix You - Coldplay
“When you try your best, but you don't succeed. When you get what you want, but not what you need. When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep."
6. DONE – The Band Perry
“Mama always told me that I should play nice, but she didn’t know [finals] when she gave me that advice. I’m through with you; you’re the one bridge I’d like to burn. All I wanna be is done.”
7. Often - The Weeknd
When people ask you have you been studying for your hardest final, you’ll probably respond with “often.”
8. Sleepless – CAZZETTE ft. The High
“Cause I’m sleepless about you…sleepless about you.”
9. Home – Michael Buble
“May be surrounded by a million people [in the library], still feel all alone…I just wanna go home.”
10. Out of the Woods – Taylor Swift
“Looking at it now, it all seems so simple.”
“Are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet?”
11. Revival – Selena Gomez
“What I’ve learned is so vital. More than just survival, this is my revival.”
12. Celebration – Kool & The Gang
And by the end of finals week, you’ll be ending your week singing, “Let’s all celebrate and have a good time!”
