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Ashley Tisdale’s “Tell Me Lies” isn’t just a weak track—it’s a case study in pop regression. While Depeche Mode, Shaggy, and Megadeth play with lies as moral dilemmas or satire, Tisdale asks to be spoon-fed delusion. Escapism isn’t always art. Sometimes, it’s just avoidance.
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The Truth Hurts, So She Avoids It: Emotional Dependence in Ashley Tisdale’s ‘Tell Me Lies’

Ashley Tisdale’s “Tell Me Lies” (2009) joins a long line of songs that treat deception as central to romance, including Depeche Mode’s “Policy of Truth,” Megadeth’s “Almost Honest,” Bon Jovi’s “Lie…

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