Song of the Day
Mean
Taylor Swift the American country pop country singer-songwriter came out with the hit song, "Mean". This song came out on March 7, 2011 and is in her album "Speak Now".It debuted number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. and number ten on the Canadian Hot 100. "Mean" won the best country song at the 54th annual Grammy Awards.
Not everyone has always liked Taylor's singing though. In an interview with "60 Minutes" Swift, she revealed that her song was about a about a critic who attacked her performance with Stevie Nicks at the 52nd Grammy Awards. This critic is Bob Leftsetz. On his blog, The Leftsetz Letter he complained about how Taylor sang off key and and other nasty comments. In another recent post, Leftsetz wrote about how he didn't care that "Mean" was about himself. He actually pleased because he didn't think that he was famous and that since Taylor took his criticism so seriously he was indeed a famous critic.
This song is a simple country song that's just trying to get a message across. As Taylor says, "There's constructive criticism, there's professional criticism, and then there's just being mean." This song also relates to bullying. In the music video there's a boy in the locker room reading a fashion magazine,getting pushed and shoved at, a girl in a fast food costume being laughed at, trying to raise money for college, and a girl's peers who are stopping her from sitting at the lunch table, forcing her to eat in the bathroom stall. In all of these cases the students are getting bullied.
To watch the music video of "Mean" click on this link http://player.vimeo.com/video/23396322?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0.
Not everyone has always liked Taylor's singing though. In an interview with "60 Minutes" Swift, she revealed that her song was about a about a critic who attacked her performance with Stevie Nicks at the 52nd Grammy Awards. This critic is Bob Leftsetz. On his blog, The Leftsetz Letter he complained about how Taylor sang off key and and other nasty comments. In another recent post, Leftsetz wrote about how he didn't care that "Mean" was about himself. He actually pleased because he didn't think that he was famous and that since Taylor took his criticism so seriously he was indeed a famous critic.
This song is a simple country song that's just trying to get a message across. As Taylor says, "There's constructive criticism, there's professional criticism, and then there's just being mean." This song also relates to bullying. In the music video there's a boy in the locker room reading a fashion magazine,getting pushed and shoved at, a girl in a fast food costume being laughed at, trying to raise money for college, and a girl's peers who are stopping her from sitting at the lunch table, forcing her to eat in the bathroom stall. In all of these cases the students are getting bullied.To watch the music video of "Mean" click on this link http://player.vimeo.com/video/23396322?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0.
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