The tennis court in the song refers to somewhere youth can go in the urban landscape to interact, they can't go to the playground anymore but they also don't belong where the adults go, in other words for a few years they are inbetween and locked out so they have to find their own place in this case its a tennis court. "Baby be the Class clown" is a way guys can be popular because the pretty girls rely on the popular guys to play up and disrupt the class because they are too dumb to learn, "I'll be the beauty queen in tears" is how pretty girls can act to get attention by acting like spoiled brats and having everyone fawn over them like a beauty queen, "its a new art form showing people how little we care, yeah" is a cynical attack on headonism in popular culture. "You could watch from your window" is the popular kid telling the less confident kid that they don't belong because they're not cool enough.
The tennis court in the song refers to somewhere youth can go in the urban landscape to interact, they can't go to the playground anymore but they also don't belong where the adults go, in other words for a few years they are inbetween and locked out so they have to find their own place in this case its a tennis court. "Baby be the Class clown" is a way guys can be popular because the pretty girls rely on the popular guys to play up and disrupt the class because they are too dumb to learn, "I'll be the beauty queen in tears" is how pretty girls can act to get attention by acting like spoiled brats and having everyone fawn over them like a beauty queen, "its a new art form showing people how little we care, yeah" is a cynical attack on headonism in popular culture. "You could watch from your window" is the popular kid telling the less confident kid that they don't belong because they're not cool enough.
a cynical attack on headonism? Could you elaborate your point...
a cynical attack on headonism? Could you elaborate your point...