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He’s really not kidding!

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  • I liked how you said that this had similar imagery to “Picture to Burn” instead of trying to play it off as a reference. At first I wanted to say it should be removed because that song’s only about burning up the boyfriend and this is about the entire relationship burning up, but you phrased it so that the only connection was fire represents the end of something
  • This is kind of tricky but I’m not sure if we should be annotating this line in the context of the whole song. The only thing this line is saying is that the relationship could go down in flames, not that it’s more likely to. Obviously knowing what we know about Taylor’s history and the way the song/video ends we know which way it’s going to go, but I’m not sure that we can say at this point in the song she knows it’s probably going to fail.
  • Minor thing, but just because it goes down in flames does that mean it has to be a short fling? Again, I think this interpretation is based off of what we know about Taylor and her short-lived relationships, when all the line is saying is that the relationship could go bad at some point. Could be in 2 weeks, could be in 2 years.

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“Size two” refers to clothing sizes, where 2 is extra small

Does “size two” refer to clothing sizes? I guess technically speaking it does, but would we lose anything by changing it to “size two is an extra small clothing size”?

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One of two new solo tracks from the Beyoncé Platinum Edition, a re-release of the album that broke the internet. “7/11” sees Queen Bey embrace her ratchet side with a dance all about body parts and movement—the Hokey-Pokey meets ***Flawless.

The southern-influenced beat and Beyoncé’s vocal delivery drew the majority of the attention, with critics praising Bobby Johnson’s blending of trap and R&B elements and Bey’s swaggering rap-singing that recalled her Destiny’s Child days.

Before “7/11” was released, an underground Chicago rapper by the name of ACE B8ie recorded a song called “Bird’s Eye View” over this very beat. It turned out that Bobby Johnson had offered the beat to ACE before Beyoncé, but ACE didn’t have a problem with it, tweeting out “thank u Beyonce”.

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“Getting off” is slang for busting a nut, but it’s also how you describe taking an exit on a highway: e.g. “drive 5 miles then get off at 12A”. Eminem worries that if Iggy tempts him any more he’s just going to be thinking about “getting off” and forget to get off the highway when his exit comes up.

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Eminem is a huge sneaker head; he has his own line of Nikes and has shouted out various types of shoes earlier in this verse. Unfortunately, he was so busy worrying about his “trainers” (shoes) when he got dressed that he forgot to put on “boxers” (underwear) and showed up to the gym naked!

This line plays on the double meanings of the words “boxers” and “trainers”. Boxers are a type of loose-fitting underwear, but they are also the athletes who fight at a boxing gym. Trainers are a type of sneaker, however they are also the employees that work with these boxers at the gym. Which is why having a lot of sneakers is like having too many employees at a gym.

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Em playfully acknowledges the critics who call him out for complaining about his hard life despite being a multi-millionaire. To do this he calls himself a martyr (someone who dies for their beliefs, usually a tortured soul) that can afford a private plane.

This is also the central idea of the song “So Far…” released a year earlier.

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Interventions are group sessions to talk about drug use. Bizarre makes it seem like he wants someone to listen to his struggles with drugs and help him, when really he just wants someone to hear how much he loves drugs and get him more.

It’s also ironic that Bizarre says Catholics and Christians, as Catholics are Christians.

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Em creates a scene where Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of The Lambs casually stalks Sir Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins is the actor who played Hannibal in the film. During the film, Hannibal rips a mans face off with his teeth – so it makes sense for him to say he has a cannibal jaw similar to a shark’s mandible.

“Lambs to the slaughter” is how Em describes his competition. This also connects to a scene from The Silence of The Lambs where Agent Starling describes that witnessing lambs getting slaughtered when she was younger still haunts her.

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