To All Of You

this song was good on the OC

I just love this song!!

Obviously the second verse is talking about the superficiality and fakeness of America and more specifically the movie industry...and how everyone hides who they truely are and are "plastic".

I think he is being sarcastic when he says "I wish I had an American girlfriend" as he believes them to be fake.

todo acerca de ti, es impresionante, me encanta siento nostalgia al escucharla no se porque, pero bueno, i think in a beautiful american girl, for to love............

I LOVE this song...

i interpreted this as he saying how classic american girls are....

how everyone would love to be one/have one. He is in awe of this girls who have it all and are not happy...

this is the perfect song to have on in the car, roof down along the beach front on a warm evening...

this song , i think is amazing. he's basically describing what we all know is true. that maybe these people who seem to be so spectacular and glamourous , have their problems too. i find that there's something ... reassuring in seeing these "american girls", who have seemingly perfect lives, because some people admire them, and they appear to be carefree, and he wants to be a part of that. but the truth is, they aren't.

don't you know that Syd Matters is french ?

I cry sometimes walkin' around my own place Wondering why she cries sometimes Talkin' about her own place Somewhere around the mountains No one could dry her fountain Till she got tired to complain That's when I fly To the wild land To your land

that my favorite part and reminds me of Marissa Cooper on the OC :)

This is a song about idealization.

"American girls in the movies No one can tell where your heart is American girls like dollies With shiny smiles and plastic bodies"

The song touches on a cultural perception of American women as a perfect, cinematic ideal, and the narrator expects American girls to live up to this plastic, movie-perfect standard. So when the narrator talks about wishing he had an American girlfriend, he's playing into that idealization and expressing his desire for a glamorous archetype of an American woman, not a place of actual understanding.

Then the final verse implies that he actually meets an American girl, one to whom he "cries sometimes talking about his own place," supposedly his home country. Then lo and behold, his utter confusion when the girl has the exact same experience—crying when she "talks about her own place."

Despite the narrator's fake, plasticy, movie-perfect, cinematic ideal of careless, endlessly optimistic American women who do nothing but smile and drive by the beach, he's forced to come to terms with the fact that this ideal is not true. That these women are in just as much anguish as he is over the problems of his homeland, if not more, and that life applies to everyone—even glamorous Americans.

I like to think that the song ends on an optimistic beat, one of greater wisdom. The guy says that he'll "fly to the wildland, to your land"—maybe he's ready to fly to America and experience the realities of the country himself. Something beyond the movies.

This was a pretty great addition to the Life is Strange soundtrack, being a game made by a French developer about two American girls who face a lot of agony over time travel trauma and their friend's disappearance. The game made my childhood, check it out if you haven't!