jpAug 7, 2025
From “Still Into You” to “Dead Horse,” Hayley Williams rewrote her own love story — just not the part where she was the villain. A breakdown of selective memory, feminist branding, and lyrical gaslighting.
#Paramore #HayleyWilliams #DeadHorse #StillIntoYou #PopPunk #MusicCriticism #FeminismOrMarketing #GirlbossNarratives #LyricDissection #EssayistMode
https://songreading.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/from-still-into-you-to-dead-horse-hayley-williams-and-the-ethics-of-the-rewrite/
From ‘Still Into You’ to ‘Dead Horse’: Hayley Williams and the Ethics of the Rewrite

Paramore’s “Still Into You” and Hayley Williams’s “Dead Horse” are meaningless on their own — but together, they decode the lie. One is a cipher, the other the key, and only side by side do they ex…

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jpJul 5, 2025

Cookie Monster vocals. Pig squeals. A birthday meltdown. Despised Icon’s “Snake in the Grass” makes me wonder: what if we shouldn’t understand the lyrics?

Bree bree bree = emotional repression in 4/4 time.
#Deathcore #DespisedIcon #MetalLyrics
#VocalStyleMatters #MusicSatire #PigSqueals
#CookieMonsterVocals #BreeSpeak #CriticalListening
#LyricDissection #MetalheadsWhoThink
https://songreading.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/snake-in-the-grass/

SNAKE IN THE GRASS (2019) by Despised Icon

I can’t decide whether the lyrics to Despised Icon’s “Snake in the Grass” are too intelligible for deathcore or not unintelligible enough to make up for what they’re actually saying.  Despised…

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