wart57 wrote:Sooo, rich white girls are not allowed to have dreams?
What about lower middle class white girls, I need to know if I need to tell my girls to just pack it in now, or if they can have dreams and work for them, even if they are not world changing?
I agree the song is crap, but to her, it was still a challenge put in front of her that she didn't give up. It may seem trite and not as important as other trials people need to go through, but it was real to her.
They can have dreams they just can't tell us about their struggles when they don't have any. What's she taking her life back from? Hell I just thought of another reason to hate it. Sounds like those Oregon Militia dickheads. "We gotta take back our country!" All while cashing in off the govt. What is this girl's struggle? She's attractive, apparently has talent, and was clearly born into wealth. Did her boyfriend dump her. Ohh poor girl let's make a movie of her life.
Maybe not quite as vinegary as Dreamer, but same idea. It's the tone-deafness of the lyrics that are baffling.
When I hear "this is my fight song, take back my life song, prove I'm alright song"... I automatically think "man, life must have dealt this person a [expletive] hand." Figured it was cancer or some other debilitating disease, maybe family members dying in tragedy.... but it's not.
So what, it has been used as inspirational for people who do have a disease, or have to fight through adversity, and it is not like the singer ever pretended the song was about anything but her self doubts in trying to make it in the music industry - her dream.
Anyway, I don't get the hatred for her. But if some of you guys hate her for the situation she was born in to and her skin color, so be it.
it's also been used in a ford commercial which cheapens it even more than it already is.
and my comment about everyone hating white people was tongue in cheek.
basically this song is an example of white privilege of the highest order
Re: "This is my fight song"
Posted: January 28 16, 3:35 pm
by wart57
Damn her and her white privilege - she probably just did this for publicity.
Re: "This is my fight song"
Posted: January 28 16, 3:45 pm
by MrSaigon
Her struggles are her struggles. I only think she lacks perspective if she starts comparing them to those of others without her advantages.
It's a weird thing, our view of the fortunate, and how it's impossible for them to achieve or create anything in this country.
Re: "This is my fight song"
Posted: January 28 16, 3:49 pm
by lukethedrifter
MrSaigon wrote:It's a weird thing, our view of the fortunate, and how it's impossible for them to achieve or create anything in this country.
Who says or thinks that? The answer: no one. Thus I am interpreting your comment as irony.
Re: "This is my fight song"
Posted: January 28 16, 3:49 pm
by stlouie_lipp
Jesus. If I didn't know any better I would think this is a parody thread.
Re: "This is my fight song"
Posted: January 28 16, 3:52 pm
by MrSaigon
It's a weird thing, our view of the fortunate, and how it's impossible for them to achieve or create anything meaningful in this country--without an asterisk or some level of disqualification.
I mean it. I think it's strange.
Re: "This is my fight song"
Posted: January 28 16, 3:54 pm
by Jocephus
my only issue with her is that she steals packages for drugs
Re: "This is my fight song"
Posted: January 28 16, 3:55 pm
by MrSaigon
I'm not starting a scholarship fund or anything, but I've heard people [expletive] on Vampire Weekend because they went to Harvard.
How come no one complains about the mansion John Lennon wrote Imagine in?
Re: "This is my fight song"
Posted: January 28 16, 4:31 pm
by MrSaigon
ghostrunner wrote:
go birds wrote:Is there a bigger load of BS than this song?
[expletive] off with this [expletive] song. I've reached my boiling point with it.
I thought it was BS from day one, but then i started to feel guilty because thought to myself, "maybe this courageous young woman wrote this song because she was battling cancer" or something. No this dog [expletive] song is about her battle with record companies and her struggle write a hit.
Was there any one moment in particular that inspired “Fight Song”?
After three months of attempting to write a “hit,” my publisher, Amanda Berman, at Sony ATV called me and asked why I hadn’t yet told my story. I didn’t want to talk about the struggle, I told her I didn’t want to go there. But I finally relented, more out of just the need to get it out. “Fight Song” was that story. The story of the many rejections I received from record labels, the countless closed doors; and despite all of it, that tiny but brave voice in my heart that wouldn’t let me give up on myself or my dream.
Read all about her struggle there. She wrote a goddamn cookie cutter song that's been sung a million times before her.
[expletive] off
I barely have heard it, but I mean... you can draw inspiration on what you know. Not everyone is lucky enough to get the cancer necessary for legitimacy.
I'm trying (and failing) to say something like this.
Re: "This is my fight song"
Posted: January 28 16, 5:14 pm
by Radbird
None of this changes the indisputable fact that the song sucks.
