| Taylor Swift – Mean Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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For a person who is so intent on not crushing someone's emotional and mental expression, you sure do like to make assumptions and toss personal insults around. (; I understand that, since you don't know anything about me other than a couple of comments on the internet, most of the things that you're saying about me are completely baseless. But not everybody has as thick a skin as I do, so I'd watch how you talk to people in the future. With all of the personal insults, you could end up really hurting someone's feelings and ending up a bully yourself. First of all, I never at any point said that she COULDN'T/HAD TO do anything. She can do whatever she wants with her music. But I'm free to share my opinions on this song, and my opinion was that it seemed like a damn mean song. I'm free to have my opinion, and I don't think that I'm being unfair for doing so. Taylor is putting herself out there for us to judge, and she's getting millions and millions for it. So I'm not crying any tears for her just because she has to deal with mild criticism like "This song sounds mean". As for why she would be sympathetic to her critics, she tries to do it herself within the song. "I bet you got pushed around Somebody made you cold but the cycle ends right now 'Cause you can't lead me down that road And you don't know what you don't know" Honestly, I think it's my favorite part of the song because it shows that she understands that people aren't just meanies for no reason. She acknowledges that he was probably bullied at some point too, and then maturely decides to be the bigger person and not complete that cycle. The thing that ruins that is when she goes on to call him mean-spirited insults like "Pathetic" and "alone in life". Because then she IS completing the cycle. You can stand up for yourself without resorting to petty insults or accusations. I don't hate Taylor Swift. To be perfectly honest, I'm just as indifferent to her as I am to every other pop starlet out there. I'm just commenting on a song that I heard on the radio that had a troubling and confusing message, especially to young girls. |
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| Taylor Swift – Mean Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I've been bully prey all my life, so I definitely know what it feels like to be bullied. But I also know, as an artist, that in the creative world you HAVE to be able to take criticism. Even harsh, seemingly unnecessary criticism. And if you're a good artist, you take those mean words and use them to improve. You don't bitch and moan about how "mean" people are and how they'll eventually get their comeuppance. It's understandable to write a song about the pressures of criticism, but this song does it in a petty, uninspired way. Instead of reflecting on how harsh criticism in general effects her (or something) this song tactlessly puts the spotlight on one harsh critic and meanly tears him down with baseless, infantile accusations and assumptions. So yeah. There's no excuse for this song. I can only hope that she's grown up in the time since it was released. |
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| Jessie J – Price Tag Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song seems incredibly pretentious to me... It could have worked if it wasn't so damn hypocritical, but the hypocrisy and self-righteousness is so glaring that I can't look past it. I personally like to think that it's satirical, but I think that'd be too much to expect. |
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| Taylor Swift – Mean Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I recently heard this song (Which happened to be the first Taylor Swift song that I'd ever listened to all the way through), and I've gotta say that it sort of seems like a song by that girl from school who was always a bit of a bully herself but always played the innocent victim when teachers were around. And it's even worse now that I've realized that a few of her other songs are... ANYTHING but "nice". The "And a liar/And pathetic/And alone in life" part seemed especially cold and unsympathetic. Nope... I can't say that I'm siding with Taylor on this one. |
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| 3OH!3 – Don't Trust Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is the kind of song that I hated when I first heard, listened to a couple times because the tune got caught in my head, and then ended up detesting almost immediately after putting it on my iPod. This kid's inability to sing ends up ruining the song for me even more than the lyrics, which are not only stupid but distractingly so. Don't get me wrong; I like me a good meaningless dance song. I just can't let it go and dance when I'm hearing pitiful attempts at being "edgy" by making fun of Keller and cheap (albeit astonishingly effective) ploys to draw in arrogant vegetarian scene kids who love that the song portrays vegetarians as tuff customerz who ttly won't take ur beefz. The singing is just horrible. The poor dear should wait until his voice stops cracking before he tries to sing. I have to give these kids something, though; their "edgy" lyrics ended up getting them a lot of attention. And there's nothing I respect more than being able to trick dopey, coontailed teenagers into just handing you their money. |
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