Lyrics Analysis - This Beauty ~ Amanda Rodgers

This Beauty - Lyrics

When your words
Come too easily for me to believe
And this paint goes on too thinly
To peel away
I will find
A silver lining sometime
Blur my vision
And I'll be fine
And I'll be fine

Burn the pages of the magazines
I hate the way they look at me
With every smile and every laugh
There's something I will always lack
And maybe, just maybe
An imperfected me
Will not be seen

When your words
Burn forever in my mind
And those greens
And those blues
Seem too perfect to be true
I will light a fire every time
I think to myself
I will be fine
I will be fine

Burn the pages of the magazines
I hate the way they look at me
With every smile and every laugh
There's something I will always lack
And maybe, just maybe
An imperfected me
Will not be seen

But I'll go on silently
and I'll be strong fortunately

This beauty is not clear to me
This beauty is not clear to me
To me, to me, to me...
To me, to me, to me...

Burn the pages of the magazines
I hate the way they look at me
With every smile and every laugh
There's something I will always...

Burn the pages of the magazines
I hate the way they look at me
With every smile and every laugh
There's something I will always lack
And maybe, just maybe
This beauty will be clearer to me, to me, to me...

Analysis


Verse 1

The first verse talks about the fact that she is finding it hard to believe that people look at themselves and the way that people comment about her inner and outer beauty almost bullying her. She talks about paint going on too thinly and peeling away which she is trying to get across that she has had enough hence the expression “you've spread your paint too thin” which means your sort of pushing the limits in what you’re saying, like you’re about to burst in a way. She says that she will find a silver lining in all this mess and she will come out shinning on top. “Blur my vision and I’ll be fine...” hints to the audience that she wants her vision to be blurred so she can’t see what is going on around her and then she will be fine and she won’t be competing with the image of beauty in the media.

Chorus

The chorus is basically talking about the fact  that the image of beauty these days in the magazines and the media is way too stereotypical and judgmental. The “something I will always lack” line implies the fact that she is never good enough for the media’s image of beauty and her imperfections are always being pointed out. So she hopes that one day there won’t be such a judgmental image of beauty and then all her imperfections won’t be seen and pointed out because she can just be herself and not what everybody else wants her to be.


Verse 2

The second verse talks almost about her being bullied and being brought don’t by what people are saying to her when she says the first line “when your words, burn forever in my mind”. There is a hint that she is talking about the beauty of nature and how people now-a-days take it for granted and they can’t actually see the real beauty around them which is nature; “and those greens and those blues seem too perfect to be true”. She goes back to the idea of burning what people are saying to her with “I will light a fire every-time”. After she has burnt all these words and images she  knows she will be fine as she says the lines “I think to myself, I will be fine...”

The Bridge

What I call the bridge of the song talks about her fighting her battle of bullying and the judgmental image of beauty. She is saying that she will be strong and not let them break her and turn her into something that she's not in the lines “But I’ll go on silently, and I’ll be strong fortunately”. She then talks about the fact that the beauty that is present in the media now is corrupted and it is not clear to her because she does not understand why anyone would want to be like that, and she does not fit the criteria to be beautiful in this day and age: “this beauty is not clear to me...”

The Ending

Right at the very end the lyrics change to “and maybe , just maybe this beauty will be clearer to me...” She is basically saying that once she’s done all she can (burning the photos etc..) she can live happily and the image of beauty will be ‘just to be yourself’ and not what everyone else wants you to be.

In Conclusion

The lyrics have a very natural feel to them and is about the beauty if being yourself and the conformity of beauty these days.

What I learnt to apply to my music video..

From analyzing the lyrics I thought it would probably be best to have a natural setting, and very natural style makeup and costume ti represent that she is not all caught up in the image of beauty. There needs to be some form of ripping a photo or magazine to show the anger that Amanda Rodgers has for the beauty these days.