[ SECRET POST #5504 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5504 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. We're meant to root for the protag because she cares about the guy for who he is, and the implication is that his GF doesn't really care about him as a person, and also they fight all the time.

I genuinely do not think the short skirts, high heels, and cheerleading are framed as a negative in the song. If anything they're being framed as an unattainable ideal that the protag feels unable to embody, and thus she feels inferior and undesirable.

[(Anonymous)]

It’s nominally a country song. Trust me, the girl in t-shirts and jeans is not meant to be inferior or undesirable. She’s just not one of those high maintenance girls with their pumpkin spice lattes and their sparkly pink phone cases.

[(Anonymous)]

An allegedly unattainable ideal that the girl the protagonist doesn’t like or think is right for the guy she has a crush on does actually embody. This girl is a person, not an ideal, but she’s being summed up by these interests in an almost dehumanizing way by the protagonist and narrative. So treating girls who like these things as just buying into unattainable ideals and interests that are considered vapid because they’re girly is part of the problem, and part of why this song reads as NLOG to people that know and had to deal with these girls. The protagonists puts the short-skirted cheerleading girl down as a way to make herself feel better, in many people’s readings.

That’s all on top of the protagonist being heavily biased against this girl, and in her own favor, because she likes this guy. There’s no real indication that she’s better for this guy than his GF(besides them fighting sometimes, which all couples do), besides her own biased feelings. That’s why the protagonist is considered entitled. All of this hinges on her wanting this guy, and because she tells us “she doesn’t know you like I do” “she doesn’t get your humor like I do”, and because she describes the GF as having very feminine interests like fashion and cheerleading that pop culture typifies as “mean girl traits”, we’re supposed to agree with the protagonist and want her to get the guy. But enough people have known NLOGs, and see right through the unreliable narrator protagonist, regardless of whether the song was meant to be taken at face value or not.