
(Brent, are you reading this? I filled in our geode worksheets for you!)īut sometimes, the real meanings of popular songs continue to evade us well into adulthood - either because we've stayed immature, or because a song's true lyrical content is so complicated and obscure that you'd have to be some kind of loser, willing to devote hours of her life to sifting through video interviews with members of the Goo Goo Dolls, just to figure it out. The world of love, rage, and other adult emotions is so new and confusing at that age, and it's often tough to suss out what the lyrics of songs meant - particularly when your own universe of emotional and romantic experience only extended to a never-acted-upon crush on your Earth Science Lab partner. Being confused about what pop songs are really about is as much of an adolescent rite of passage as your first awkward school dance or your first patch of unmanageable body hair.
