You're in the middle of the ride, it's life! We all go through this and one day it will be over. Little girl you're in the middle of the ride You might be new in the world or behind them for now but it doesn't matter as long as you try.
Give it a shot! Even when you know that people are going to think you suck or are going to talk behind your back. "Just try your best, try everything you canĭon't you worry what they tell themselves After hearing this I get the image of a child struggling to find the clique that (s)he belongs to. When looking deeper into the song, lyric by lyric however you can get the greater meaning, that this song is quite literally about puberty.or at least just growing up. (After all, they wrote the song after losing a publishing contract.which won them 2 others!) The post Jimmy Eat World Issues Formal Apology for Telling Us Everything Everything Would Be Just Fine appeared first on The Hard Times.I agree with most of the other comments for the most part on the reason for the band writing and singing this song. “I mean, fuck, monarch butterflies are now endangered and we will be fighting wars for water within the next 15 years! Jimmy Eat World may have said it just ‘takes some time’ for things to improve, but I think we can all admit that it’s not happening.”Īt press time, the band had just released a follow-up video announcing changes to the song’s lyrics, including that the little girl no longer has any rights and that everything will be horrible forever. “With the state of our planet, we have much bigger worries than what their bitter hearts are going to say,” said Brennan, gesturing at a chart that showed rates of polar ice caps melting. Davy Brennan agrees that while the band’s best-known song “still slaps,” its optimistic themes are no longer appropriate. I have zero regrets about scheduling an appointment to get the lyrics covered up with a skull that has a swirling black void for a mouth.”Īrizona State University climate scientist Dr. But between government-sponsored attacks on trans kids, this Supreme Court bullshit, and a neverending pandemic, it was time for the band to admit they fucked up. “‘The Middle’ may be a straight-up banger, and it certainly got me through my divorce. “I’m glad they finally tried to make this right,” said Wilson.
Long-time fan Anais Wilson, who had the lyrics to the song inked on her arm when she turned 18, felt the band’s apology was long overdue.
We know it won’t be as catchy, but it has to be done.” Our next song is going to be a more realistic look at climate change, political inaction, and terrible gun violence. At this point, though, it’s clear that nothing is going to be ‘just fine,’ let alone ‘alright, alright.’ To our fans, we sincerely apologize for twenty-one years of upbeat and catchy false hope. “Christ, we white-knuckled it through the Bush years with this song, we temporarily scrapped it from our setlist during the back half of the Trump administration, but we really thought we’d turned the corner after the 2020 election. “We really screwed the pooch here, and we feel terrible for misleading our fans for over two decades,” said lead singer Jim Adkins. Members of Jimmy Eat World posted a video on their official Instagram page formally apologizing for their 2001 hit single “The Middle,” where they erroneously told the world, “everything, everything will be just fine.”
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