Paramore’s song is, at face value, about a girl escaping her problems and pagganap childish only to realize that it makes things worse. Behind this first degree meaning, lies a segundo layer of interpretation: the song describes, in chilling detail, the reality of a mind-control slave. The video manages to assemble all of the symbolism usually associated with Monarch Programming in about three minutes, leaving no doubt concerning this secondary meaning of the song.
Right from the start of the video, the subject matter of the song is made very clear. The setting is totally unreal and synthetically...
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