Don't Tell Me
Don't Tell Me
Artist: Avril Lavigne
Greatest Hits (Compilation Album)
Lately I've been feeling Avril Lavigne, so, naturally I started off by listening to 'Let Go' and found myself listening to 'I'm with You' on repeat 🔁 (🙋 guilty as charged).
Later, when I was stalking Cher on social media and going through the 'FOREVER FAN' compilation album lore, I recalled Avril's 'Greatest Hits' compilation album.
I love Avril alot, but I've always listened to random songs from random albums which I organized in a playlist. So, I don't really know many of her songs.
For background, I have a formula for when I listen to albums because I happen to be a playlist kinda gal'. The first three times it's in order, then it's shuffle for the next three thousand times I listen to the album. 👍
Back to the topic at hand, 'Don't Tell Me'. I knew the first few songs so I was just chillin' and vibin', then 'Don't Tell Me' came on. Good Avril song with that 2000's sound and of course a chorus that only Avril can pull off. I enjoyed the chorus thoroughly and then came the second verse and I was like... 🤔🤔🤔 hmmmmmmmmm🤨🤨🤨.
Yeah.... The pre-chorus was also kinda sus but I didn't expect it to be that because it seldom is. Then, when she said 'And the fact that your arm is now around my neck, will get you in my pants' I just went ??!🧐?!
Naturally, I googled the lyrics because Spotify went into its default "couldn't load lyrics" mode, and found out that was exactly what she was talking about. My mind was 🤯 blown. ( But before that I went to Genius just to triple check 😃)
It's really not something that people talk about often, even hints of it in song. Or I'm just just completely detached from music like that. Potato, poh-tah-toe. 🥔
As you can probably tell( because I'm writing a whole darn thing about it), I've been listening to this song on repeat 🔁 for 2 whole days and I can't stop. That's the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's just that every time I listen to it's so sad and it just hurts. I was just completely slammed in the face by the feels. But it made me so happy. I was ecstatic because I was feeling such deep emotions for a topic I could not even relate to. That's crazy. And I love it.
The amount of emotions you can pass on to some ramdomite on the other side of the globe is mind boggling. The way a song can mean so many different things to different people and the best part is that one cannot even fathom the things one song can mean. For example, this song, for someone who's been through things like this it would be freeing in a way or hella saddening. For me, on the other hand, it makes me so happy, because I could feel something from someone's point of view that cannot even begin comprehend. That's empathy. My god, epiphan-tree.
Well there's that. To be honest, I'm getting kinda sick of this song. Where's my next victim...
OH
Here's a cute picture of Avril
