"Cause I'll be there in the back of your mind,
From the day we met to you were makin' me cry"
This song is not so bad musically, in fact it is kind of catchy. But the lyrics are what give me pause. I have listed a line from the song above, which is so confusing in tense that it makes my head spin. How can she still be there if she only was in his mind "from the day we met to you making me cry"? Does that mean she stopped being there when he made her cry, and if so, than how will she still be there unless either
1. He never made her cry or
2. She is no longer there because of said crying.
Either way, I am confused. And that is just the first two lines in the song. Other than the grammar of the song, the theme of the song, a girl shunned and getting back at the ex by writing a song about him and singing it is old hat. It has been done so many times even the artists who record the must be getting tired of singing them. I will admit the song is kinda cute the first few times you hear it, but if you really start listening to it you will see that it is really about a Narcissist who can't stop thinking about how much her ex is thinking about her, ergo, she is the one with the problem, not only can she not let this guy go, but she is so self absorbed that she thinks that the time he spent with her is definitely the best days of this guy's life.
I think that may be overstating it a bit. She is obviously obsessed with this guy, to the point that the new girl should probably be a little worried about the situation. The song, ultimately, shows me the problem with our current society, that being everyone is more interested in themselves that anyone around them. Our society is so self interested it makes me sick!!
Is this the worst song ever? No it is not. I do not like the lyrical structure of the song, the arrogance of the song (and I do realize that this song is tongue in cheek, just in case you were wondering) and I do not like the fact that a lot of girls take songs like this to heart and think it is okay for them to care most about themselves. That is all I have to say about that.
