I'm not sure who this song is directed at exactly but every time I hear "you fondle my trigger and then blame my gun" it makes me think of the relationship she had with the media at the time. By the time When the Pawn came out, Fiona was kinda being called every name in the book. She even said it herself, she went from being this sad little girl that everyone felt the need to feel sorry for to this brat/bitch character that everyone couldn't stand. This happened because of her outspokenness obviously (ie. her infamous VMA speech). When she first came out, she was well loved by critics and such. They loved the sad girl persona and they played on it a lot (ie. in every article she was in back then, they would call her "the sad/or sullen, soulful singer" or something like that because they knew they could sell that image). They did they same thing when Criminal came out, but instead they wanted to sell the sexy image she conveyed in the video. In that sense, they kept pushing her to be get attention the wrong way ("you fondle my trigger") until she explodes (her infamous VMA speech, where she tells the world that the music business is bullshit and everyone in it, including herself, is fake). Everyone then begins to blame her, calling her names like bitch, slut, crazy, hypocrite, etc etc ("then blame my gun") even though the media pushed that image on her in the first place.
I gotta say that Fiona is my favorite songwriter and I think (especially with this album) her songs can have double meanings. Of course they're about her personal relationships but they also hold a meaning with her relationship with the music business. One of my favorite lines of this whole album that made me think this is "Oh darling, it's so sweet, you think you know how crazy/How crazy I am". The media's main description of Fiona was "crazy" (it still is) and she's obviously saying "aw you think I'm crazy. That's cute, but you really have no idea." And then she kinda shows the shades of her "crazy" and explains the reasons why she's like that with the rest of the album.
I'm not sure who this song is directed at exactly but every time I hear "you fondle my trigger and then blame my gun" it makes me think of the relationship she had with the media at the time. By the time When the Pawn came out, Fiona was kinda being called every name in the book. She even said it herself, she went from being this sad little girl that everyone felt the need to feel sorry for to this brat/bitch character that everyone couldn't stand. This happened because of her outspokenness obviously (ie. her infamous VMA speech). When she first came out, she was well loved by critics and such. They loved the sad girl persona and they played on it a lot (ie. in every article she was in back then, they would call her "the sad/or sullen, soulful singer" or something like that because they knew they could sell that image). They did they same thing when Criminal came out, but instead they wanted to sell the sexy image she conveyed in the video. In that sense, they kept pushing her to be get attention the wrong way ("you fondle my trigger") until she explodes (her infamous VMA speech, where she tells the world that the music business is bullshit and everyone in it, including herself, is fake). Everyone then begins to blame her, calling her names like bitch, slut, crazy, hypocrite, etc etc ("then blame my gun") even though the media pushed that image on her in the first place.
I gotta say that Fiona is my favorite songwriter and I think (especially with this album) her songs can have double meanings. Of course they're about her personal relationships but they also hold a meaning with her relationship with the music business. One of my favorite lines of this whole album that made me think this is "Oh darling, it's so sweet, you think you know how crazy/How crazy I am". The media's main description of Fiona was "crazy" (it still is) and she's obviously saying "aw you think I'm crazy. That's cute, but you really have no idea." And then she kinda shows the shades of her "crazy" and explains the reasons why she's like that with the rest of the album.