Thats fine ill tell mine youre gay

Take the Debut Lyrics Quiz! Kevin Courtney of The Irish Times mentioned "Picture to Burn" among powerful revenge songs and noted the lyric "Go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy / That's fine / I'll tell mine you're gay " (a lyric later changed in subsequent releases of the song to the less inflammatory "you won't mind if I say").

A child wrote it, and there were literal adults in the room who heard the lyric, approved it, and put it on the album. Most importantly, we see her attitude in this song. The reasons are obvious; I guess I haven't heard it in a while though and didn't know.

So go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy That's fine, I'll tell mine you're gay By the way [Chorus] I hate that stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive. There will be many more to come, some encoded, some flat out blasts, and some more metaphoric.

Inciting Incident: Gossip. None of this excuses the lyric. Archived post. So go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy That's fine I'll tell mine that you're gay! I have a lot of pictures to burn. Mood: Feisty, vengeful, threatening.

What imagery do we see when we think of Disco Inferno? But what do the Picture to Burn lyrics mean, and what was the controversy that surrounded this song? Fire and burning — the first time we see it here — is such an inkling of things to come for Taylor. Fire will come to represent so many things in the Swiftverse: burning down, renewal, burning bridges, flames of love, etc.

What Taylor Swift Really

This is who she was from the very beginning: she will possibly forgive, but she will never forget. This metaphor means she will burn down all her memories of him, as well as hurt him in the process. Debuting on her self-titled album inthis song was really catchy and scored lots of radio play.

She originally said, "That's fine, I'll tell mine you're gay" but on a Spotify just now she says, "That's fine, you won't mind if I say" and the version doesn't say "radio edit" or anything when did she change it? This early song is the beginning of Taylor as a pop artist — it began right away — even if she was introduced to the world through country music.

But Picture to Burn got more widespread play across all stations. Conflict: Breakup. Lesson: Taylor can forget you faster than she can strike a match. Then the final threat: her daddy will beat him up. Mirrorballs, dancefloor, flames, burning it down.

This originally had the lyric: "Go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy, that's fine; I'll tell mine you're gay." Swift later adjusted that line so as not to give offense. This is a common southern trope, where the daddy comes out with a shotgun to chase the boy away.

This is both her first use of gossip a major theme in later albums and Reputation and the first time she satirically calls herself crazy. Did he never let Taylor be in control? By the way I hate that stupid old pickup truck You never let me drive You're a redneck heartbreak Who's really bad at lying So watch me strike a match On all my wasted time As far as I'm concerned You're just another picture to burn!.

Taylor was young — 15, to be exact — and walking the hallways of a school where that phrase was probably thrown around all the time. We know what a mastermind Taylor is, and she told us flat out from the beginning: I sit, and I plot, and I am the master of revenge.

Theme: Getting revenge on an ex. Taylor wrote Picture to Burn about one of her earliest breakups with a boy named Jordan Alford.