This song is not about "hating" the "popular" people..it's making fun of teenage dating in general. It's almost sympathizing with teenagers situations. We're all stuck in this micro-society with an endless unwritten code about dating and how to dress and act and talk and think. This song is simply exploring the idea of us being honest about the code and akknowledging it's there while we follow it so religiously. That's why nada surf uses a teacher to explain dating to a bunch of naive teenage girls. They use the teacher to show what it would be like if these rules really were said and if we acted like they really had to be followed. And basically the same thing happens. We breed a bunch of whores who can't help being a whore, because that's what the code tells them to do and some people are simply too naive to recognize the irony in things. So if anything nada surf doesn't want you to hate the "popular" people, they dont want you to like them either, they're just trying to show their views of high school and teen dating.
This song is not about "hating" the "popular" people..it's making fun of teenage dating in general. It's almost sympathizing with teenagers situations. We're all stuck in this micro-society with an endless unwritten code about dating and how to dress and act and talk and think. This song is simply exploring the idea of us being honest about the code and akknowledging it's there while we follow it so religiously. That's why nada surf uses a teacher to explain dating to a bunch of naive teenage girls. They use the teacher to show what it would be like if these rules really were said and if we acted like they really had to be followed. And basically the same thing happens. We breed a bunch of whores who can't help being a whore, because that's what the code tells them to do and some people are simply too naive to recognize the irony in things. So if anything nada surf doesn't want you to hate the "popular" people, they dont want you to like them either, they're just trying to show their views of high school and teen dating.