Okay, my first question about “The Middle” is: am I the only one who was tricked by the bouncy beat and catchy tune? Am I the only one who thought this was just a happy-go-lucky dance number? Because – after simply hearing the song 100x a day on my radio – I just read the lyrics, and boy was I wrong.
I suppose that I should’ve been tipped off by the words “got so aggressive,” but wow, I did not think this song happened after a violent fight. After reading the lyrics, the song gets an A+ from me for the vivid imagery of a house completely torn apart (even though no one even notices because the song sounds so cheery – it also gets an A+ for successfully hiding a horrific fight in some bubblegum pop). While both parties seem to have made a serious mess of things (seriously, I’m over here hoping they have a contractor on speed dial!), we hear the singer still begging her partner to “just meet [her] in the middle.” I don’t know about you, but if someone tore the doors off my kitchen cabinets, they’d be out the door before they even had time to contemplate “just how we got into this mess.”
Okay, my first question about “The Middle” is: am I the only one who was tricked by the bouncy beat and catchy tune? Am I the only one who thought this was just a happy-go-lucky dance number? Because – after simply hearing the song 100x a day on my radio – I just read the lyrics, and boy was I wrong.
I suppose that I should’ve been tipped off by the words “got so aggressive,” but wow, I did not think this song happened after a violent fight. After reading the lyrics, the song gets an A+ from me for the vivid imagery of a house completely torn apart (even though no one even notices because the song sounds so cheery – it also gets an A+ for successfully hiding a horrific fight in some bubblegum pop). While both parties seem to have made a serious mess of things (seriously, I’m over here hoping they have a contractor on speed dial!), we hear the singer still begging her partner to “just meet [her] in the middle.” I don’t know about you, but if someone tore the doors off my kitchen cabinets, they’d be out the door before they even had time to contemplate “just how we got into this mess.”