I know- it's a top ten song, so it's gotta stink, right? But I think this guy is special. Granted, I am a teenage girl and gullible to "feel good" songs, but maybe it's not such a bad idea to preach to teenage girls that they
do look okay, and that they don't need to change themselves. With all of this shit going around with anorexia, drinking, teenage suicides and the whole lot, someone needs to be telling us that we're beautiful (No thanks, Snoop Dog, sorry we "can't all be California girls"). Too often these days, I see people trying to be someone they're not. It gets them to the better parties, the cooler friends, the whole nine yards. You don't need to do any of that to find your niche. This is what Mr. Mars is telling us (even if it is for the million dollar paycheck that will roll in), and he's darn right. His other song, "Count On Me," is a comforting tune for us emotional teenagers.
Stop telling us to change for you -- accept us for who we are, because that's what we need to hear. Media is all about telling the customer what we need to hear, but those things are changing every day. There is so much peer pressure to shop at these stores, to hang out with these people, to be people we're not. I'm thankful that there is someone out there who knows the right thing to be feeding us. Everyone else needs to learn the same thing.
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