Something I don’t get
In Rumour Has It by Adele, she says:
She, is half your age,
But I’m guessing that’s the reason that you strayed,
I heard you’ve been missing me,
You’ve been telling people things you shouldn’t be,
Like when we creep out and she ain’t around,
Haven’t you heard the rumours?But I’m like, but Adele, you’re 21. How old is the guy you’re dating and how old is his girlfriend because if he’s around your age, this girl’s about 10 years old if she’s half his age. And if he’s around 30, she can’t be more than 15. And if he’s around 40, YOU’RE half his age.
I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED THIS OMG
okay warning: I’m about to be a humorless jerk for a sec, but marginalized musicians rarely get the credit for creative composition that white men do. Simply put, nobody thinks Johnny Cash actually shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but a hell of a lot of people think B-Real could actually just kill a man or that Liz Phair is a simpleminded slut. (P.S. this is probs why Lana Del Rey gets such backlash; how could this chick singer INVENT AN ENTIRE PERSONA and sing about it with the audacity of artifice, whereas, you know, blah blah Bob “Zimmerman” Dylan hey btw have you seen I’m Not There it’s so good, seriously, go do that instead.) So anyway, Adele’s albums are markedly confessional, and that’s cool and great, but by that token everything she sings is now held to the standard of absolute “21 year old girl singing about exactly what happened to her with zero embellishment.” Which sucks. That is not how writing works. That is not how epic breakup albums get written. Go listen to Blood on the Tracks and get back to me.
TL;DR ARTISTIC LICENSE IS A PRIVILEGE
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