This is a really well written, well-arranged song. A great effort from Avril Lavigne. The meaning is pretty obvious: boy meets girl, she snubs him because he is rough around the edges so she and her friends look down on him, he goes on to be a big rock star with a new girlfriend, and new girlfriend has her "ha ha ha" moment because she got the guy in the end. I didn't think much more about it until many years later. But now...
The song is undermined by what a 20-year-old would write, which you would have to expect since Lavigne was about 17(?) when she wrote this. But stories like this are never so simple. Step back and think a minute.
Her friends and the new girlfriend think the skater boi is so great because.... why? He's a rich famous rock star now? How many young people become rich and famous, marry and then completely self-destruct because none of it is real and they aren't ready for any of it?
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5 years later, the first woman is home, feeding the baby, ("she's all alone"). Was the first woman really the "loser" because she found somebody else and has a baby now? The song is trying to knock girl #1 for "judging" him. But maybe she was right. He's a "punk", she "does ballet". She was attracted to him, but realized it was a mistake because they were too different. Who says they aren't both better off the way they are?
This is a really well written, well-arranged song. A great effort from Avril Lavigne. The meaning is pretty obvious: boy meets girl, she snubs him because he is rough around the edges so she and her friends look down on him, he goes on to be a big rock star with a new girlfriend, and new girlfriend has her "ha ha ha" moment because she got the guy in the end. I didn't think much more about it until many years later. But now...
The song is undermined by what a 20-year-old would write, which you would have to expect since Lavigne was about 17(?) when she wrote this. But stories like this are never so simple. Step back and think a minute.
Her friends and the new girlfriend think the skater boi is so great because.... why? He's a rich famous rock star now? How many young people become rich and famous, marry and then completely self-destruct because none of it is real and they aren't ready for any of it? -- 5 years later, the first woman is home, feeding the baby, ("she's all alone"). Was the first woman really the "loser" because she found somebody else and has a baby now? The song is trying to knock girl #1 for "judging" him. But maybe she was right. He's a "punk", she "does ballet". She was attracted to him, but realized it was a mistake because they were too different. Who says they aren't both better off the way they are?