Just What's A Canker Sore
9 years ago
Monday, October 22, 2007
I bought Angus & Julia Stone's album "A book like this" last week. I can highly recommend this album to everyone! It's cruisy, beautiful, melodic, easy to listen to, interesting and thought provoking. Great lyrics too. I haven't stopped listening to it since I got it. I particularly like the song "hollywood". It's a great song about unrealistic expectations that hollywood give people. It really sets us up to fail, because life is not a fairy tale. That's not to say that life is all doom and gloom, but that sometimes people don't always have happy endings. Here are the lyrics:
I blame you hollywood, for showing me things you never should
a young girl, in this cruel world
Coz life's not a happy ending, I'm sure there's some like johnny and june
And maybe other people too
They all would have been killed in the sound of music
La da da la da da
They would have found out that Pinocchio could never tell the truth
She wouldn't make it to shore, the little mermaid
He would have married a whore from a wealthy family
After all, he was royalty
CInderella would of scrubbed those floors til her hands grew old and tired
Nobody would look her way
It's just the way it goes today
I blame you hollywood, for showing me things you never should
a young girl, in this cruel world
Coz life's not a happy ending, I'm sure there's some like johnny and june
And maybe other people too
Like me and you
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It would certainly be interesting to have fairy tales with slightly more realistic outcomes, but equally happy endings. I believe it could be done.
So an alternative could be the geek trying everything they can, using their creativity to invent several scenarios in which they could become the new "cool student". In the end, however, it only makes matters worse, although around the end of Act II they should get close.
But rather than this being a defeat, they gain a change of perspective. The geek learns after getting alone with one of 'em that the popular kids have no ambitions, no goals. Rather than hate them, the geek suddenly feels sympathy. They make a personal bond with one popular kid in particular, remain unpopular themselves, and find the strength in the knowledge that in life there will always be people that hate you, but you can form those few bonds that matter.
Eh?
I guess that proves it's more than possible!