In 2013, Swedish DJ Avicii wrote the highest charting dance track of the decade, “Wake Me Up!” You can find the song on youtube along with an accompanying music video.

The lyrics about living a dream and waking up to realize a new and better reality were written by Avicii as a result of his success, which thrust him into a life he never imagined. The video took the lyrics further however, suggesting that we all need to leave behind those places and people who don’t accept us for who we are in order to embrace new people and new places where we are loved and fit in. This is what it means to live true to ourselves.

The music video depicts a foreign woman and young girl living in a small, bland town, in which the local townspeople look at them with disdain and disapproval, and they are not …