There are differences between what someone says, what she means, and what someone else understands.
Under that belief, I had to accommodate this song and the fact that I'm a guy. What does it have to do with me? Surely, like an older sister to a younger one, Sara sings explicitly that a girl, wanting to beautify herself, should be confident. This looked to be a song of commonality, what she facetiously identified once as “chick music.” And so, what I had to do was to find commonalities between us.
We’re human, and we want to be good to that which we care about (in this song, a girl wants to “make him want to be with [her]”). Commonalities found. If we are ugly (“the whole world has made you the ugly girl”) and isolated, we find it hard to be good to anyone. Sara is telling us that we are not ugly, but hidden for the time being. She knows what it feels like to be shoved aside as someone else with more reputation basks in the spotlight. She sees that beauty has more to do with others seeing you than you seeing yourself and that losing opportunities and blaming people aren’t very important. We still stand as chances to be taken by the world because we are all beautiful girls.
There are differences between what someone says, what she means, and what someone else understands.
Under that belief, I had to accommodate this song and the fact that I'm a guy. What does it have to do with me? Surely, like an older sister to a younger one, Sara sings explicitly that a girl, wanting to beautify herself, should be confident. This looked to be a song of commonality, what she facetiously identified once as “chick music.” And so, what I had to do was to find commonalities between us.
We’re human, and we want to be good to that which we care about (in this song, a girl wants to “make him want to be with [her]”). Commonalities found. If we are ugly (“the whole world has made you the ugly girl”) and isolated, we find it hard to be good to anyone. Sara is telling us that we are not ugly, but hidden for the time being. She knows what it feels like to be shoved aside as someone else with more reputation basks in the spotlight. She sees that beauty has more to do with others seeing you than you seeing yourself and that losing opportunities and blaming people aren’t very important. We still stand as chances to be taken by the world because we are all beautiful girls.
Beautiful song, by the way.