I think what really GETS me about Miss Americana is that the lyrics do really have double meaning.
If youâre not paying attention, youâd be like, âoh, yeah, itâs about high school loveâ... but then you listen closer with the context of her singing about AMERICA, or rather, TO AMERICA and itâs politics. âYou know I adore you, Iâm crazier for you, than I was at 16, lost a film scene.â This is really obviously symbolism of, âI was so caught up in my own life and being distracted by my career I didnât really notice you, American politics, needed my attention.â
I now kind of read the chorus in two ways, too. She could so easily just be singing to the Heartbreak Prince as a love interest, saying, âItâs you and me,â and that the rest of the world doesnât approve of her being with him... but the chorus is so much more layered when you approach it from the singing about her society / her country angle. Itâs like sheâs saying to America, âremember when I was known for my 4th of July parties? You were my whole worldâ, but then the Republicans claimed her for their own in her silence, and people were bullying her and talking about her, so âthey whisper in the hallway sheâs a bad bad girl.â
So when she says, âthe whole school is rolling fake diceâ, (which is !!!!!) This is her saying she realises the new America she lives in is run by those who manipulate the system, (just like she said in that Guardian interview as well??!). Then sheâs like taking a dig, like, if âyouâre doing to play stupid games with power, then your prize isnât a real prize, eitherâ.
This analogy is made even more clear and easier to see in the second verse with, âmy team is losing / batteries and bruising / I see the high fives between the bad guys,â and âAmerican stories, burning before me / boys will be boys then, where are the wise men?â Because guess who said, âboys will be boysâ famously???? A certain President.
The whole analogy is genius when itâs then mixed with the American high school symbolism as well? Because to anyone who isnât American, the MOST American thing is movie vision of âhigh schoolâ, of cliques, of cheerleaders and bleachers.
And there ainât nothing more cliquey and high school than two party politics at the moment, huh?
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