JUKEBOX: “Gotta Find You” by Joe Jonas

Shane singing "Gotta Find You" to Mitchie

Hi everybody! It’s Kimberly here for my eleventh post for the genre “Children’s Music.”

Finals week is almost here (or is already here for some of you) which means that it’s almost time for summer vacation! I’m sure that all of us have great memories of summer vacation whether it’s going to the beach or even going to a summer camp. To start off your summer vacation and mine, I decided to do two reviews from the Disney Channel Original movies Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2. For the first week, I’m going to be reviewing “Gotta Find You” from Camp Rock.

Camp Rock premiered on the Disney Channel in 2008, which is when the Jonas Brothers were pretty much at the height of their success. The Jonas Brothers, Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas, rose to fame started when their music video for their cover of “Year 3000” premiered on Disney Channel. It was especially exciting for kids like me when it was announced that Joe Jonas would play the lead as Shane Gray and that his brothers would also be making appearances in Camp Rock as his bandmates.

The main character to whom Joe Jonas would be the love interest was Mitchie Torres who was played by a then slightly unknown Demi Lovato. In Camp Rock Lovato’s Mitchie is just an ordinary girl who longs to be popular. She’s shy and she is wary of sharing her own compositions with the rest of the world. Shane ends up hearing Mitchie sing her original song “This is Me,” and Shane decides to make it his mission to meet this mystery girl and that’s why he writes the song “Gotta Find You.”

Without knowing it, Shane ends up befriending Mitchie whom he doesn’t know is his “mystery girl.” He ends up singing “Gotta Find You,” to Mitchie because she becomes one of his close friends at camp. “Gotta Find You,” is a love song that is backed by an acoustic guitar. If we’re comparing it to Jonas Brothers songs, I would say that it’s most like “Hello Beautiful.” The sentiment behind “Gotta Find You” is sweet and reflects the naivety of a summer camp love. The most memorable lyrics stem from the chorus, which help explain what Shane is feeling: “You’re the voice I hear inside my head, the reason that I’m singing. I need to find you. Gotta find you.” I’m giving “Gotta Find You” 3 records because although its lyrics aren’t exactly groundbreaking, it’s an easy listen which reflects the easy-going bliss that we all probably associate with summer.

I hope you enjoyed my review of “Gotta Find You” and if you did, please make sure to come back to JUKEBOX Music Reviews again next week for another review from my genre “Children’s Music.” J

Below is a lyric video for “Gotta Find You.”