| Lana Del Rey – This Is What Makes Us Girls Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Come on people, this is not about Mean Girls. The song documents the typical modern manifestation of female adolescence from the perspective of the girls with an added dash of self-awareness. They're only sixteen, but they feel as if they are adults ("Sweet sixteen and we had arrived") and are desperate to experience "real life". Convinced of their invincibility and intoxicated by the glamour of partying, they engage in wildly self-destructive behaviour. Their idiocy is tragic to witness - caught up in these notions of 'fun', they have no idea of the consequences of their impetuousness (that verse about breaking into a hotel). The girls get written off by all those around them as hopeless stereotypes ("Teachers said we'd never make it out alive"). Popular media views them only as "degenerate beauty queens" without a single redeeming feature - and yet they are people, and they are still true friends. Modern culture is then further criticised in the chorus, where girls put their romantic relationships over all others. Girls today are encouraged through things eg. rom-coms, Disney movies, to view 'true love' as the ultimate fundamental of life. They'd die for it, even, which shows how unhealthy this culture is. What makes them girls is the inability to see past this bullshit - they are still immature and wholly subscribe to popular opinion. In many ways, the song is an elegy to the innocence of childhood. The train part (yes I know Lana was sent to boarding school, whatever) symbolises her graduation to adulthood. She can never again return to the her previous ignorance. |
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