"Sk8er Boi" is such a funny song. "He wasn't good enough for you, and neither my unconditional love nor his wild success in his career has been enough to get over you dumping him. Sucks to be you!!"
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She's not rocking out in the crowd, making meaningful eye contact with Mr Boi as he sings about his ex - she's backstage, invisible, while he builds his career on his heartbreak. We learn nothing about her - only that she loves him whereas his ex didn't. We're never told why, or really even how.
There's that bit about "rocking each other's world" implying that they fuck good, but that's literally it. It's pathetic enough to make a song of out her weirdly sneering victory lap; weirder still that she doesn't involve herself in the "victory" at all. Something something bechdel test?
the song was successful because it fulfills the fantasy of the girls who didn’t win the sk8r boi but feels like they are owed a sk8r boi. same concept as taylor swift’s “love story” but a different kind of boi
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