I mean her parents would drive to NY for singing and acting lessons, the family relocated to Nashville to enable her carrer, paid for private school, beautiful homes... by all accounts her family provided a strong foundation for her to launch.

She's been supported throughout her life, calling the way she was raised an "asylum" is kind of insulting to people that grew up wondering if there would be food on the table or if Dad was coming home angry again. Not to minimize her struggles but I'm willing to bet most people could actually last an hour

[–] protist@mander.xyz 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

When people write songs are the lyrics always supposed to be literally true? There's some interesting stuff happening out there if so...

[–] Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can't believe Johnny Cash actually shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

That fucker didn't even hang. Music's fucking gay bro

[–] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago

GWAR about to serve 800 life sentences.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

I mean that sounds like it could be a story about super supportive parents, or it sounds like it could be a story about super psycho pageant mom type parents.

Even if it's the former and they were genuinely supporting her dream and not their own, it still doesn't mean it wasnt manic or stressful or crazy.

Or it could just be a made up fictional lyric, or one meant to reference her own internal psychological struggles with the asylum she's trapped in being her own mind.

This meme quite frankly just seems like people who don't understand music trying and failing to clown on the popular girl.

[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You may want to look more into it.

Her father was one of the principals on the closing of DreamWorks Nashville. Big Machine records is what DreamWorks Nashville was rebranded as once severed from the rest of the corporate structure.

He essentially took the commission he got from selling Toby Keith's catalog and then reinvested it into Big Machine before it was open to other investors.

He essentially spent $2m to buy his daughter's career.

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 4 points 6 months ago

Well at least it was a really good investment

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 months ago

If you just compare your life to some of the worst off then yeah, no one ever gets to complain about anything.

This whole outrage is misunderstanding the fact that people can have problems, especially perceive themselves as having problems, that are on their own scale and not comparable to the world at large. Also her songs are written to be relatable to some extent and not just 100% autobiographical so more people can envision their own problems and circumstances. But that's like, 99% of music so it feels weird to say it.