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Originally posted by Sarab
Don't know if I agree with you. Pretty Hurts brings out the running theme in the album that it's okay to not be perfect and that one needs to be happy with themselves. That theme runs into No Angel, too, as well as Flawless. Self-titled is very much an album about womanhood, and like it or not, body image is a very real thing for all women. So, PH fits the theme there, too. It's ultimately a song about accepting one's self.
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Yeah, it is about self acceptance, but I feel like it's a very juvenile, basic and surface level approach to exploring that area with the cliche "it's the inner beauty that
really counts" bottom line. The delivery was just cheesy, IMO and it felt more like pandering to girls of a certain age more than anything else. IDK perhaps her perspective is colored by her abnormal situation as a celebrity living in a fishbowl, but I still feel like it's a childish, corny song that sticks out like a sore thumb on that album.
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Originally posted by LoveTheWayILie
I see. Thank you very much for the info ^
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You're welcome.
love it
The synths still get to me. It's like someone took a new wave hook from the 80s and stripped it and put this lazy hip hop-esque beat under it and told her to sing in a way that made her feel most vulnerable yet the lyrics make her sound like a grown woman who'd gone through enough to know who she was.
I liked it to much for it to be a Jay song.
