Wrecking Ball What it really means
Almost everybody has been mentally scarred by Miley Cyrus's latest single “Wrecking Ball”. If the video didn't traumatise you, you're either one of the lucky few who haven't watched it, you have nerves of steel, you have very odd tastes or you've deciphered the deeper meaning of the video and love it.
Miley Cyrus says that her err, outfit, symbolises how emotionally exposed her lover left her and the shattered wall shows what a mess she is. She says that people should focus on her face more in the video because it shows how hurt she is, and the wrecking ball shows the force she was hurt with. Oh, and she kisses the sledgehammer because she loves the pain. A website even suggests that it's Lucifer's message to God and his angels, and deciphers each line in the song in that sense, and refers to the lack of clothes as “satanic”.
But there's an obvious, yet unnoticed meaning in the song. Miley expresses the fact that she had a very rough childhood, because she never got that tree swing she wanted, by swinging on a wrecking ball. Her “outfit” shows that she never got any freedom until she grew up and now she's demonstrating her freedom. The broken wall indicates her having broken out of that tough childhood. She expresses solidarity with those living in poverty who cannot afford proper clothes and abandons her rich, flashy (no pun intended) outfits. She kisses and licks a sledgehammer which denotes that she embraces the simple way of life of those who strive and work hard every day but do not earn enough to even buy clothes.
The lyrics are obviously directed at those who make these poverty-stricken people work very hard but do not reward them enough for all their struggles, with Miley Cyrus speaking from the point of view of one of these exploited people. She underlines how their lives are being wrecked by their close-fisted employers and the way they treat them. The lyrics use a lot of metaphors which mislead people. It's all open to interpretation.
It takes a great deal of compassion and sensitivity to write on such subjects and a great mind to find such clever and insightful methods of expression. This song is a masterpiece, misjudged by those who cannot understand meanings beyond the literal and apparent.
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