s-t-a-r-f-o-x:
a very informational flowchart
So I saw this...
a very informational flowchart
So I saw this flowchart several days ago, and the song’s been in my head like a freaking earworm ever since.
The thing about earworms, at least for me, is that they also bring you back to the first time you heard this song.
For me, it was when I was in the passenger seat of my mum’s car. I’m singing along to it, and I’m singing something like this,
Hanging out the passenger side
Of his best friend’s ride
Tryin’ to say hello to me.
Yeah. Because I didn’t know what ‘hola’ was. According to my preteen understanding, it was a way to say ‘hello’ in an American accent, so I just corrected it to the way I would say it in an Australian accent whenever I sang along.
What stuck with me, despite the catchy tune, was why these women were being so mean to guys. I mean, why do you have to say ‘No’ so many times when the boy was just trying to say hello?
I mean, surely the girl was being needlessly rude. Cause why would you need to say ‘No’ four times?
I’d never met a ‘scrub’ before then. I didn’t have any practical idea of what a ‘scrub’ might be before, so again it was a case of me filing that away as American lingo and, from the context of the song, went with ‘a guy that you didn’t want to have a relationship with’.
Again, cue confusion on my part, because if you weren’t interested in a relationship with them, why would they still try to pursue you?
What’s interesting to me now is how accurate I’ve since come to recognise this song being now seeing it for the first time in more than 20 years. The process of nodding along and agreeing with these lyrics not because I heard it at such a young age, but because of what life experience has taught me.
