So it seems I struck quite a chord with my last blog piece. Some people took a while to work it out- fair enough, I guess not everyone thinks in the weird way that I do and looks for literal meanings of lyrics! But quite a few people agreed, and one person added the fine comment:
"also if you told her she was beautiful then from then on she would know she was beautiful because you told her... making her no longer beautiful and thus defeating the whole point and leaving you with some ugly girl. gutted."
Eloquent and incisive. Thanks Mike for that! I'm annoyed I hadn't thought of it, it's such a good point! But what was more interesting in all of this is that I soon discovered my article was a big hit on google under 'i hate one direction' or similar. Perhaps it's limited to NZ and my computer is a bit biased, but friends have confirmed I come in on the first page of hits! Which is pretty funny I think! I don't really hate these guys or anything, it was only ever a friendly stab at them for some silly lyrics!
Anyway several people had noted it was my first post in a long time. Which is true, I haven't been blogging much lately. Boo hiss! I've been pretty busy with University and suddenly finding I have a life to live and all that- pretty amazing!! Since I last posted I've moved out of home and am living in a flat in Ponsonby. I grew a beard and shaved it off. And I'm still very lucky to have my wonderful girl. So yeah, life's pretty cool but very busy! But now I shall endeavour to keep up the writing!!
*waits for yells of delight*
*cricket chirp*
*tumbleweed*
But yeah. Keep an eye out!!
Q.E.D.
Yes, I know there are many reasons, and I'm sure you have your own. But I bet they aren't my reason. So it's pretty hard to listen to the radio at the moment without hearing their song 'What makes you beautiful'. It's not a bad song; it's a catchy tune, nothing wrong with it; I can see why it's done well for them. But it bloody well annoys me so much every time I hear it because of one line in it. No, it's nothing to do with images of beauty or the rather cliche hair whipping references; it's the line "that's what makes you beautiful" stuck on the end of the chorus.
It annoys me. They've just spent the whole time explaining to the girl that she is clearly beautiful and just doesn't know it. Great, excellent, fine with that! But now you go and say it's because she doesn't know she's beautiful that she is beautiful? My paradox sensor just exploded and imploded simultaneously. That's frickin impossible guys! If she's only beautiful because she doesn't know she is beautiful, she needs to be beautiful before that which is impossible because you get stuck in an infinite loop. Mathematicians' and logicians' minds would explode if they heard this song; but there's not much chance of that thankfully.
Think it through, and your mind will boggle. It's just a ridiculous thing to say. And for that alone, I hate One Direction.
Q.E.D.
