For this blog post, I wanted to analyze a popular song that I personally have started to listen to more and more. The song is “F***ing Perfect” by song artist Pink. This song discusses how people should never feel like they are worthless or won’t amount to anything because they are different. Some examples of these differences are what individuals’ interests may be as well as race, gender, or sexual orientation. The world we live in today, anyone who is not normal by not meeting social standards, which do vary in cultures, are also looked down upon. What Pink is trying to express through this song is that no one should ever make you feel inferior to others. You are who you are and no one can take that away from you; you are “perfect” because you are you and you are different.
One line that stands out from the song, besides the chorus, would be this: “Done looking for the critics, cause they’re everywhere, they don’t like my jeans, they don’t get my hair, [we] exchange ourselves, and we do it all the time
Why do we do that? Why do I do that?”.
This lyrical exerpt hits hard on what is happening in society today. People are all critics and they have standards that they measure others by those standards. People analyze others based on gender, race, and sexual orientation, what they are wearing and interests. And as a result, it makes people who are of another race, male or female, gay or lesbian or heterosexuals, feel insecure and out of place. Who are those people (critics) to decide what or who is normal and why are they making those who are not like them feel like they don’t belong? No one should ever feel out of place. Everyone should be proud of who they are, what their beliefs and practices are, and where they come from.
Pink also says in this song “Welcome to my silly life, mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood…” This lyric is just another example of how people who may be of a different race, gender, or sexual orientation can feel when others of the so called “normal society” make comments or treat those individuals. Pink says “silly life” because that’s what it is; it is silly to think that people are hindered from living their lives because they are different.
People should not care about what others think about them. Yet, ideally we would like for this to happen, it is easier said than done for a lot of people. Like Pink says, “Don’t you ever, ever feel like you’re less than, less than f***ing perfect…you are perfect to me.” Everyone is perfect in their own way no matter what. I think everyone should take this song to heart and really reflect on how they treat others.