I am sincerely shocked at the amount of people who think this is a sweet love song. One person on YouTube even said they would love it if a girl dedicated/sang it to him. It is most definitely NOT a love song, it's about a woman who wants to be married, so desperately that she'll marry anyone just so as not to be looked down upon.
Back in the day (and still to this day in some parts of the world) if a woman wasn't married by a certain age she was seen as irresponsible and not fufilling her duty as a woman, that is, staying home, raising children and doing housework.
Also, just because domestic abuse is mentioned in ONE LINE, that doesn't make the entire song about it. This is a hypothetical sort of song anyway. It's just saying that the woman would be willing to suffer abuse at the hands of her husband, just as long as she's actually married.
Maybe the people that interpret this as a love song just aren't very familiar with CocoRosie as people. The Casady sisters are extremely against traditional gender roles and the idea of gender as whole.
I am sincerely shocked at the amount of people who think this is a sweet love song. One person on YouTube even said they would love it if a girl dedicated/sang it to him. It is most definitely NOT a love song, it's about a woman who wants to be married, so desperately that she'll marry anyone just so as not to be looked down upon.
Back in the day (and still to this day in some parts of the world) if a woman wasn't married by a certain age she was seen as irresponsible and not fufilling her duty as a woman, that is, staying home, raising children and doing housework.
Also, just because domestic abuse is mentioned in ONE LINE, that doesn't make the entire song about it. This is a hypothetical sort of song anyway. It's just saying that the woman would be willing to suffer abuse at the hands of her husband, just as long as she's actually married.
Maybe the people that interpret this as a love song just aren't very familiar with CocoRosie as people. The Casady sisters are extremely against traditional gender roles and the idea of gender as whole.