It would suffice to say I wasn’t the most popular girl in high school. I had friends, good friends that I’m still friends with now, but we weren’t the most desirable group of girls. At least according to the guys in our year. But towards the beginning of high school, before our status was really cemented, one of the popular guys showed interest in me.

We had to sit next to each other in several different classes and after a while he started to like me. When he told me he liked me, I didn’t believe him. I thought it was a joke, but it wasn’t. He asked me out and I said yes.

But it was weird because we didn’t hang out outside of class, nothing really changed. Except his friends were apparently trying to get him to break up with me because I wasn’t good enough, popular enough, for him.

After three days he gave in and had one of his friends break up with me for him.

‘This Isn’t High School’ is about that and how I wasn’t good enough for them then, but I’ve changed. I’m no longer that girl, I’ve grown into a more confident, more self-assured version of her. It’s about how if they could see me now, what would they think of me, would they still judge me the same way.

Yes, in the lyrics I’m a famous singer and that hasn’t happened, but a girl can dream. Part of the lyrics are real, the other I’m calling a premonition.

Love
Roxanne