http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw
While reading Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, I've realized how many similarities there are between the famous plot, and that of the lyrics of You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift.
In the music video, Taylor plays the part of the nerdy neighbor, to her highschool's hot running-back. Every night she watches him quarrel with his girlfriend, the glamorous cheer captain, over the phone. They then communicate to each other using notepads, and every time they do, Taylor seems to never show him the one page in which she wrote, 'I Love You'. It made me realize the almost forbidden love between the two, when they are sitting on a park bench making each other laugh, and his girlfriend pulls up, and starts making out with him, making sure Taylor knows that he's hers. Also, at the football game while she's in the stands playing with the pep band, and he's on the field playing football. It very obvious that the motif is the 'forbidden love' between a geek and beauty, until the night of prom in which Taylor shows up looking drop-dead gorgeous, without her nerdy glasses and with her hair done.
The elements that also gave evidence to this song being linked to Romeo and Juliet was when they finally got to be together, even though his ex-girlfriend did not want them to be, and they kissed. It showed how happy they were being with each other in each others' arms, but it did not solve anything besides the fact that they were together.
