Charli XCX - Break The Rules

This is just the perfect embodiment of music I dislike. The whole high school "bad person," "let's break rules," "yolo," "rebellion!!" attitude is repulsive to me and extremely immature. I despise how this attitude is glorified in the media even though this 'image' is always destined for failure. You wonder just how successful one gets with this sort of mindset to life. Actually, you don't need to wonder at all because the obvious reality is, these people don't get anywhere at all. Sure, it may work for a couple of hit songs, but say goodbye to a successful career if you decide to stick to it. Those hit songs will probably be forgotten in a few years too. You might say "but Linkin Park and Evanescence have had great careers and have produced brilliant songs in the process!" While I do concede that the angst that they embodied is not too dissimilar to this, their intentions and thoughts were on a much deeper level than shallow, immature lyrics such as "Getting high and getting wrecked, I don't wanna go to school, I just wanna break the rules." I mean, how about you just go do that and never come back. It is this vile attitude that has led me to despise this artists' music so much, as it was clearly evident in "I Love It" and "Fancy" too. It is not just her though. The long list continues with the latest Avril releases and most of Kesha's early releases, and this is the reason why I couldn't stand Rita Ora either. The list goes on and on for artists that go down this path really, and where are they now besides being washed up?* I don't care if I am taking this too far; this song personally offends me. It is simply not fair when someone tries to make something out of their lives and works very hard at it, and then here comes a most likely privileged, well-off 'star' who instantly becomes mildly successful by cashing in with a bitchy, rebellious, shallow and immature song. I guess I should be glad I haven't experienced this personally. If you want to rebel against the status quo, there are other ways to do it. This method has already been tried and flogged to death so much, that it is pretty much mainstream anyway. So maybe this is ironic instead? I doubt it. Especially with this song coming from probably the worst album name of the year: "Sucker." This absolutely reeks of immaturity and I find it vile and repulsive.

*Yes, Kesha and Rita are still relevant. But that is clearly because they have moved away from this awful attitude and have gone to perform more interesting, or at least more innocuous material, or have at least continued this tirade ironically.

This is just the tip of the iceberg with this song. Terrible production just makes this extremely uncomfortable and and difficult to sit through. There is absolutely nothing to salvage here. Please go away and come back with something new.