“It’s my right to be hellish,” he says. Ummm NOPE. No. It isn’t. I don’t give a **** how hot your girlfriend is. Men have tried that crap on me, too. “You’re just so beautiful — all these guys want you,” etc. So what? So your girlfriend is attractive, so other men look at her — that doesn’t justify behaving like a controlling, ragey, psycho. And the fact that other men might objectify your girlfriend, find her attractive or even, you know, want to talk to her like some form of human-type being, doesn’t mean she is going to cheat on you. What’s behind this kind of sentiment is ownership and control, not flattery.
What’s particularly creepy about the lyrics is that we’re supposed to see them as romantic. These lyrics aren’t romantic at all, though. Rather, they sound threatening as hell.
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So no, Nick Jonas — it isn’t “your right to be hellish.” Stop teaching the young girls who listen to your music that obsession, aggression, and possessiveness is “romantic.” It’s dangerous.
