As with any of her songs, in "Growing Pains" Alessia Cara proves yet again that she is my spirit animal. I mean, she literally says "I cry more than I want to admit." Has she been watching me or something? Or watching every directionless millennial for that matter? Alessia Cara takes on the task of narrating the pains that all of us face from transitioning from childhood into adulthood, and she hits the nail on the head. As we go about our lives coining fun terms like "adulting" to ease the those growing pains and the difficulties we're suddenly going through, we're made to face the fact that we, like everything around us, are changing, and that can be a tough pill to swallow. Alessia talks about how we, like every generation before us, have parents and others who have been adulting for much longer than us, telling us that it'll all get better and that we just need to relax. But I think anyone can admit that just because there's a light at the end of the tunnel, that doesn't make the darkness feel any less dark. Like Alessia says, there are "no band-aids for the growing pains."
As with any of her songs, in "Growing Pains" Alessia Cara proves yet again that she is my spirit animal. I mean, she literally says "I cry more than I want to admit." Has she been watching me or something? Or watching every directionless millennial for that matter? Alessia Cara takes on the task of narrating the pains that all of us face from transitioning from childhood into adulthood, and she hits the nail on the head. As we go about our lives coining fun terms like "adulting" to ease the those growing pains and the difficulties we're suddenly going through, we're made to face the fact that we, like everything around us, are changing, and that can be a tough pill to swallow. Alessia talks about how we, like every generation before us, have parents and others who have been adulting for much longer than us, telling us that it'll all get better and that we just need to relax. But I think anyone can admit that just because there's a light at the end of the tunnel, that doesn't make the darkness feel any less dark. Like Alessia says, there are "no band-aids for the growing pains."