It's a very feminist song. Jackie Kennedy was widely considered one of the strongest women of the 1960s because of how she handled the JFK assassination and aftermath. Tori was born in Aug 1963, with the shooting of JFK happening in Nov 1963, so it's basically her way of recognizing that there was an extremely heavy feminine influence over her life since the beginning. The song tells memories of dealing with the perils of being a female throughout her life. The chorus is the most telling:
"make me laugh
say you know what you want
you said we were the real thing
so I show you some more and I learn
what black magic can do"
This is basically every girl dealing with a boy for the first time. The boy's telling her whatever he has to in order to get in her pants, then once she gives up the goods he dumps her and she learns the hard way she's been tricked.
The second verse is elementary school (lunchboxes, david cassidy from the partrich family), middle school (sleepovers, smoking pot) and high school where life for a girl is suddenly all about looking perfect:
"you're only popular with anorexia
so I turn myself inside out
in hope someone will see"
In the last verse is some scattered thoughts resulting in another reference to Jackie and JFK:
"if you love enough you'll lie alot
guess they did in Camelot "
Camelot is what Jackie called the White House.
All in all, this is a very sad song because it recognizes the hardships of being female while simultaneously thinking about troubles of the past. I can't listen to it without crying every time.
It's a very feminist song. Jackie Kennedy was widely considered one of the strongest women of the 1960s because of how she handled the JFK assassination and aftermath. Tori was born in Aug 1963, with the shooting of JFK happening in Nov 1963, so it's basically her way of recognizing that there was an extremely heavy feminine influence over her life since the beginning. The song tells memories of dealing with the perils of being a female throughout her life. The chorus is the most telling:
"make me laugh say you know what you want you said we were the real thing so I show you some more and I learn what black magic can do"
This is basically every girl dealing with a boy for the first time. The boy's telling her whatever he has to in order to get in her pants, then once she gives up the goods he dumps her and she learns the hard way she's been tricked.
The second verse is elementary school (lunchboxes, david cassidy from the partrich family), middle school (sleepovers, smoking pot) and high school where life for a girl is suddenly all about looking perfect:
"you're only popular with anorexia so I turn myself inside out in hope someone will see"
In the last verse is some scattered thoughts resulting in another reference to Jackie and JFK:
"if you love enough you'll lie alot guess they did in Camelot "
Camelot is what Jackie called the White House.
All in all, this is a very sad song because it recognizes the hardships of being female while simultaneously thinking about troubles of the past. I can't listen to it without crying every time.