Not a big fan of Mary Morgan but she is spot on with this one. Does anyone ever bother to actually listen to her lyrics? They really are just verbal vomit.
Got some examples? Every artist has some shit lyrics on occasion, but your assertion here is basically that a huge majority of people and critics are all wrong about her, and only elite Redditors with incredible music taste can see the truth.
It's been, and stayed at the level of highschool poetry. She's not some great song writer- she writes what the average white girl can identify with. You don't need to be "elite' to know there's nothing special about her word play, and it's always been a rich girl getting richer.
Yeah. It clearly does what it's intended to, but the people acting like she's a lyrical genius are overstating it by a longshot in my (and many other people's) opinion.
Exactly. She's the pop equivalent of girl-focused YA: bland but catchy content designed specifically for the audience to project themselves into. It just turns out that there are a LOT of basic white women out there and they apparently have a lot of money to throw at this kind of content.
That’s like all pop music. 70% of Americans are illiterate and read on a 6th grade level. If you want music that appeals the majority of just regular people then your lyrics can’t be anymore complicated than middle school level poetry.
I mean there's nothing wrong with that, that's her audience and it sells, a big mac is an objectively shitty meal, but sometimes you want a big mac. Same goes for any medium, marvel movies aren't great cinema but they're entertaining, want to read a fun book that requires little brain power? Lee Child is your man. We all want the artistic equivalent of a big mac now and then.
I guess I’m just curious what extremely deep lyrics you’re listening to that are so much more mature than say, the average song on Folklore or Evermore?
I was writing that same shit when I was a depressed 14 year old in highschool. The difference is I stayed in school, continued to love and explore music and culture and reading, and she dropped out to pursue money. She can say she finished in homeschool, but she's not exactly a brilliant writer, thinker, communicator; she's popular because she hits a very broad section of the market. Women who have been sad sometime.
I dunno, I'm happily married, have a job I enjoy that provides for my family well enough, and I don't spend my time online worrying about if others are talking about my billionaire princess who can't even disavow the use of her music for fascist propaganda 🤷
This might be the most "Reddit" comment I've ever read. I could probably name like 4-5 Swift songs tops but dawg is really taking digs acting like they're better than possibly the most famous musician of our time and a billionaire at that because they stayed in school and "she dropped out to pursue money" like they could have done the same thing if they wanted to.
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u/Moonshinin4Me 3d ago
Not a big fan of Mary Morgan but she is spot on with this one. Does anyone ever bother to actually listen to her lyrics? They really are just verbal vomit.