What moves me most about this song is the artists' acknowledgment of these horrible things: what it feels like to be abused, beaten down, not supported by the people who are supposed to be there for you, continuing to spiral down because you lose your feelings of self-worth... So many people go through this, and they are silenced, because you never hear these songs on the radio. All you hear about are how to be hot enough to be wanted, how to get a guy/girl, your role as a pimp/ho (how you have to work HARD to be a pimp and how you have to be kept in line if you're a ho)... You don't hear about the pain of being abused this way. I love this song. It makes me so sad to hear it, but it is one of the realist songs out there. Thank you, Destiny's Child, for writing this.
What moves me most about this song is the artists' acknowledgment of these horrible things: what it feels like to be abused, beaten down, not supported by the people who are supposed to be there for you, continuing to spiral down because you lose your feelings of self-worth... So many people go through this, and they are silenced, because you never hear these songs on the radio. All you hear about are how to be hot enough to be wanted, how to get a guy/girl, your role as a pimp/ho (how you have to work HARD to be a pimp and how you have to be kept in line if you're a ho)... You don't hear about the pain of being abused this way. I love this song. It makes me so sad to hear it, but it is one of the realist songs out there. Thank you, Destiny's Child, for writing this.