![]() ![]() Title: Gives You Hell Artist: All American Rejects For any Comments and Suggestions: Text Me: 0/1 Email Me: [email protected] Friendster. Gives You Hell by The All-American Rejects song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position. My OpinionA lot of people i talk to mention they totally get the song, but have no idea what the music video has to do with it. The song is about an ex girlfriend, one he had before he was famous. She probably harped on him about this whole rockstar thing is never gonna happen, you gotta grow up and be a man, i think she dumped his ass for being a slacker. Then he became famous, i think the way the video ties into it. Is that the neighbors are two different versions of himself, who he became, and who he might have became if he'd have made a different decision. ![]() ![]() The song is constantly bringing up themes of inner conflict. 'But truth be told i miss you, and truth be told i'm lyin' and this is where i take a litterary leap. I think the lines 'When you hear this song and you sing along but you never tell, you're just a fool, I am as well, hope it gives you hell' Makes you think why he drug himself into the recurring fool rhyme. You could argue that he just needed to make it rhyme. But think that at this point in the song and in the video he's admitting he doesn't really hope she's suffering, and he's just a fool as much as she is. She made a poor decision but the smart one,trying to get him to come to his senses. And he made a poor decision trying to make it rich, it just happened to work. And to throw it in her face is truely beneath him, because either life he would have chosen would have been a good one. General CommentI love it!!! I like the lines 'And truth be told, I miss you, and truth be told, I'm lyin' the most. The situation's pretty obvious. This guy's probably angry at his ex for cheating on him or something. He smiles as if he's better off without her and hopes that she feels miserable when she sees him. Her life is probably crap and the guy's thinking that she deserves it for what she did to him. But i think he still has feelings for her because why else would he care about her being miserable? Yeah, awesome song. Can't wait til 11/18. My InterpretationI think it's obviously a direct message to someone who broke his heart at a younger age, probably because she thought he (assuming the song is written from the singers point of view) wasn't going to make it anywhere in life, and left him for someone with a promising future. Now, he hardly has to do anything besides rock out every once in a while, and all in all has an easier life than the uniform, 'successful' person with that promising future. The singer wants to rub it in that he's successful, while the heartbreaker lives a mediocre life instead of what she could have had with him. I say it's a direct message because of the line, 'When you hear this song, and sing along, but never tell. Hope it gives you hell.etc.' I personally picture the 'heartbreaker' singing the song with a stressed look on her face with her peers, knowing that the song is directly about her, but everyone around her thinks its just a song, if I said that right haha. On a side note, LOVE this song. It's that song every guy wants to sing to that one &*#$% from their teen years. Catchy, and that rock out feeling to it.:D. Song MeaningMaybe I'm just an anomaly, but I got an ENTIRELY different meaning from this song than 'a girl'. In the video we see the singer playing TWO roles, the Rocker, and the Square.
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