Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet (August 23, 2024) Album • Page 12

I think "Love Story" is pretty different, because she's legitimately rewriting how Romeo & Juliet ends. I think Taylor is actually engaging with the narrative of the play and then doing the audacious thing (changing Shakespeare!) to make it fit with the fairytale vibes she was all about at that point in her career. I don't think "Juno" is really engaging with the story it's referencing in the same way, which probably supports your "it's not that deep" argument, but also I think supports my argument of the song referencing the wrong thing to make the point it wants to make.

 

God I love this website

 

Lol, I realize this is all trivial, but I do like that there's at least one place where I can have these kinds of insane conversations about pop cultural ephemera. For me, it will ALWAYS be "that deep."

 

I literally know nothing about Juno other than "teen girl gets pregnant from awkward Michael Cera" so maybe that's all Sabrina knows too.

 

Seems likely.

 

Considering she was eight years old when it released, I'm willing to bet that's the case here.

 

I was gonna bring up “Love Story” earlier and chose not to, lol. Mainly because the one is doing it dramatically and the other playfully. But, I agree that it’s a useful comparison.

Personally, I’ve always interpreted the use of Romeo and Juliet in that song to be in character. Taylor is in class daydreaming about this guy, and she’s using the famous story they’re covering as part of the daydream. As the song’s narrator, she’s oblivious to the way the story ends, and that naïveté is kinda the point.

I’m inclined to see “Juno” through the same lens. I wouldn’t be surprised if, on her and her songwriters’ end, it was a very shallow “what’s a famous thing where a girl is knocked up” thing, lol. (Like she says in another song, “boy, it’s not that complicated.”) But, if I’m trying to derive meaning (which is fun!), I think it’s easy to interpret it through the same in character, intentionally naive lens. Like, you can read the narrator as horny to the level of being like, gimme a baby! And the fact that she’s so caught up in the boy & the moment that she’s overlooking the baggage of what she’s daydreaming about… could be seen as a feature, not a bug. It’s certainly not that off base (in a broad strokes way) from conversations I’ve had recently with a specific impulsive close friend of mine, lol.

 

Also, I agree with this. It’s fun to pick at media that “isn’t that deep” and see what you can pull out, lol. Doing so is, in some ways, itself a creative act.

 

i will never stop posting it’s incredible

 

The POV is actually from JK Simmons’s character wanting to punch that Bleeker kid in the weiner.

 

I normally hate the “What if ____ covered _____?” But damn this is a good Daryl/Glassjaw.

 

respectfully you could not pay me to click play on that. i don’t need to know what that would sound like.

 

This is how I feel anytime someone posts Alex Melton

 

dont know who that is but i agree

 

I only like it when it’s in the style of Korn

 

Lol, I agree with all of you but also...that is a crazy good impression. Lowkey better than the original

 

Believe me when I say if anyone else posted it, I would feel the same way. It came across my Reels and this is the only place where anyone might appreciate it.

 

Immediately threw on Worship and Tribute lol

 

I actually like this guy's covers a lot. Some of his impressions are really spot-on. Plus, he was a Marine and i have a soft spot for being one myself. Not a fan of Alex Melton or others in the same vein, but I like this dude.

 

Did a second playthrough, Juno still my favorite. Manifesting a music video with Elliott Page as the male lead.

Taste, Good Graces, Slim Pickens, and Don’t Smile also early standouts

 

"Bad Chem" is the one

 

Bed Chem is catchy enough, but I do think it’s a little too, uhhh, suggestive on an album full of that.

 

Are you saying the camaraderie line is bridge to far?!

 

lol yeah, definitely the line I was talking about