Kate Nash – Mariella

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  General Comment:This reminds me a lot of how I was in the sixth grade.
  I didn't want to wear makeup, or pretty clothes. I dressed in grays and blacks and browns, I didn't want to wear colorful dresses so I would stand out. I didn't go and make friends, on the bus I sat alone and read a book.
  
  I think that the singer (Kate) sees this girl she knows. Kate is loud, she laughs at stupid things, her opinions always come right out of her mouth as she thinks them. Then, she meets Mariella, who is quiet (I don't think Mariella necessarily "glued" her lips together - I think it was rather a metaphor that she didn't talk). She throws out all the colors in her wardrobe because she doesn't need color to make her pretty. She wanted to be mysterious and different. Mariella doesn't need friends to make her happy, she's fine being by herself and living in her "own little world" and the singer is jealous and wants to be like Mariella. The singer wants to not care, wants to not feel the need to wear color or talk so much or annouce her opinion..but it's just how she is. So she's envious of the girl that is different.

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  General Comment:I love Mariella! One thing though: i always find myself wondering what happened before she decided to glue her lips together. Like before the point in time that we meet her. Cause it feels like its an "ive had enough!" moment. I dont know why i feel like its her rebelling, maybe because because Kate almost spits out the one songline line; "so she neverhadtospeakneverhadtospeakneverhadtospeak!" Its not a calm decision in my mind, but rather a little child revolution going on there, like "thats it!". maybe she's sick of trying to fit in and saying all wrong things, and she just decides she'll rather set herself properly apart so they'll leave her alone :)
  
  I feel like its a lot about wanting to not conform to whats expected. What she wants for herself is so different than what everyone else wants, and yet she has the courage to follow what she feels is right, screw the consequences. When the surroundings tries to force her she just decides that she wont be a part of that group anymore. And it's lonely and alienating- but also strong and self sufficient- and most of all shes happy that way :)
  
  Sidenote: this song always gives me assosiations to a show i saw about children that feel born with the wrong gender. Naturally I know this is NOT intended by Kate, of course, (please dont take it as that). It just has some paralells; how the other girls and the teachers interprets it, everyone going out of their wits trying to wrap their head around it, and how the mother cries for hours over the 'loss' of her 'perfect little girl'.

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  General Comment:Hm, I don't know why but I always feel like this is about an autistic child (Mariella) and how the narrator veiws her.

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  General Comment:This is about a Girl, Mariella, who is an Introvert, and shows introverted traits. Like Keeping Quiet, Enjoying your own company, keeping your secrets to yourself, being articulate and indeed, not fitting in. People see Intrroverts as being loners or often Strange.
  
  At the Start of the song, Kate Nash is Describing herself, as the complete opposite as Mariella, (Kate nash in this case is an EXtrovert.)
  Shes far too loud, she blurts her opinions out without thinking, can be impulsive and is heavy handed.
  
  Mariella glues her lips together because she dosent wish to speak often, As an introvert, you often keep to yourself, and dont engage in too many conversations. Keeps to herself, hence the term "People used to say shes as quiet as a mouse, she just doesn't make a peep." Not because she is Autistic :L
  
  Mariella throws all her Colourful clothes away because she is independant enough to make her own decisions, (Introverts may be rather more mature for their age). She wears clothes that only SHE feels comfortable in, not abiding by the latest trends, or colours. Obviously this pissed off her mum.
  
  She plays and thinks to herself, she has little friends in school, because she is different than the rest. But notice she Skips down the street. She hasnt got many friends, she has herself, and she couldnt be happier. People can find introverts avoiding, lonely or often strange.
  
  Hope this cleared things up. I Noticed there was some confusion inthis forum.
  
  Gareth ;]

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  General Comment:Also, I thought that the lyrics were "And the boys, they're not really into girls AT that age..." Like, she's in fourth grade and the boys aren't really crushing yet; she's in the same grade, she's the same age, it's just that the age she's at doesn't have romance integrated. SOemthing like that. Anyways, good song!

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  General Comment:After I heard this song, I seriously thought about gluing my lips together. I had the glue and everything, but then thought my mom would get mad, and besides my friends would think I was on crack.

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  General Comment:I took the name "Mariella" as my 2nd name, because I think, that I'm like Mariella.
  
  Like tadobsessed said: Mariella is an introvert.
  
  She want to be on her own, and play with herself. She don't want to share her thoughts to other, because she just want to be alone. She glued her lips together, because so, she don't need to speak to people, and people can see, that she don't want to talk with them.
  
  I love this song. It's sweet.
  
  But in the start, Kate Nash sings that "as soon as she got an opinion, it just has to come out". And that's why she want to be Mariella. And "She laugh at stupid things", and she wish that she didn't do theese things, so she wish that she could be like Mariella, so she wouldn't laugh at stupid things, and say her opinion everytime!
  
  Mariella haven't any friends at school, because everyone that she's weird. And she's too clever for her own class-step, so she have skipped few class-step, and that's why "the boy aren't to girls in that age". They're maybe 15, and she's 11.
  
  Sometimes I mean, that I'm like Mariella. The girls in my old class thought that I was weird, and the teatchers get enough of me, and thought "that it just was a phase" that I behaved me in that way. It was annoying! In that time I wished that they could understand me.
  
  
  (Sorry for my english, I haven't got many english-lessons, my english sucks a lot... Hope you could understand me!)
  
  It's just what I think. But everyone have their own "Mariella" in themself, they have just to find her. :)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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    No, I'm pretty sure she says 'at that age' because they're all young, not because Mariella herself is too young.

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    No, I'm pretty sure she says 'at that age' because they're all young, not because Mariella herself is too young.

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  My Interpretation:I don't get why no one's mentioned this.
  Mariella's simply an introvert!
  
  She's content in being alone.
  "If I wanna play, I can play with me, If I wanna think, I'll think in my head."
  
  Because she's so quiet, she's observant and smarter than the others.
  "But Mariella just smiled as she skipped down the road because she knew all the secrets in her world.
  yeah, she always got the crossword puzzle right every day and she could do the alphabet backwards, without making any mistakes."
  
  Mariella is just an introverted girl, content in being different and alone. Not antisocial. And I don't think this song portrays her in a negative way either ("And sometimes, sometimes, I wish I was like Mariella").
  
  People seem to think that people who enjoy solitude are antisocial or autistic. :/
  
  I'm an introvert- so, I know what it's like to WANT to be alone rather often and struggling with this in a primarily extroverted world.

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  General Comment:this song is about a girl (Mariella) who glues her lips together. I think she's the youngest in her class, maybe she has skipped a class or to, 'cause she too good for her own class-step.. she's wearing black clothes, 'cause it looks mysterius, but her mother want her to wearing pink and pearls. Mariella is don't care with it.
  I think it's intentional that she behaves in that way, 'cause she want to be a little different compared to other.. She want to stand out, if you understand ;D

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  General Comment:am i the only one that thinks kate nash & lily allen sound a lot alike?

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