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| Amanda Palmer – Oasis Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I really don't think that she's mocking rape survivors here, even if they seem to be making light of their experience. That's, in fact, a common coping mechanism, focusing on something that's seemingly trivial when you've just been through something that's too big to deal with. The fact that she keeps saying, "I don't care, I don't care" sounds more like she's trying to convince herself, not that she really means it. If I'm wrong, then I've been reading all of Amanda Palmer's lyrics horribly, horribly wrong. This is something she does fairly often- sing about something in a flippant, trivial way, while really talking about something deep and painful. So I think it's a song about a high school girl trying to deal with a rape, an abortion, and the betrayal of her trust by her best friend that causes the entire school to cast her out as a crackwhore, and doing it by focusing on music and her favorite bands and telling herself that none of it really matters. That's also quite common, especially in teenagers. Lord knows I wouldn't have survived high school without a few of my favorite songs. |
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| Ben Folds – Rockin' The Suburbs Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Yeah, I think leakeg got it, totally. I also really don't think he was mocking black rappers at all. He's speaking as the crappy, whiny middle class white guy, who thinks that the black guy in the next car is blasting his rap music because he hates Whiny White Guy, when the black guy probably doesn't even care. The Whiny White Guy is making it all about him, and he gets all angry and defensive and claims that black people need to get over it, basically, which is, sadly, how a lot of white America views race relations. Whiny White Guy's views are really simplistic, ignorant, and self-centered, and I think Ben Folds is mocking that, not the dude in the other car who's just trying to listen to his music. |
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