...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Mean (Music)
- 164 statements
- 31 feature instances
- 2 referencing feature instances
| Mean (Music) | type |
TVTItem | |
| Mean (Music) | label |
Mean (Music) | |
| Mean (Music) | page |
Mean | |
| Mean (Music) | comment |
Mean is a 2010 song by Taylor Swift, from her album, Speak Now. It was made into a music video in 2011, which can be seen here.The song was reportedly written in response to a cruel review by music criticnote (Swift has never gone on record directly identifying them, but based on some of the lyrics, it's widely believed to have been controversial music critic and blogger Bob Lefsetz) who claimed Swift "couldn't sing" and would have a short career. The video expands on this message, turning it into a general anti-bullying aesop. It shows scenes of other underdogs brushing off haters and eventually achieving their dreams, as Swift would go on to do. | |
| Mean (Music) | fetched |
2023-11-11T07:31:23Z | |
| Mean (Music) | parsed |
2023-11-11T07:31:23Z | |
| Mean (Music) | processingComment |
Dropped link to AnAesop: Not a Feature - IGNORE | |
| Mean (Music) | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Mean (Music) / int_1d6befa7 | type |
Revenge Ballad | |
| Mean (Music) / int_1d6befa7 | comment |
Revenge Ballad: The song is the revenge. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_1d6befa7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_1d6befa7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_1d6befa7 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_2b49eaf | type |
Damsel out of Distress | |
| Mean (Music) / int_2b49eaf | comment |
Damsel out of Distress: Chained to a Railway Taylor gets out on her own. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_2b49eaf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_2b49eaf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_2b49eaf | |
| Mean (Music) / int_32e69b5f | type |
Dastardly Whiplash | |
| Mean (Music) / int_32e69b5f | comment |
Dastardly Whiplash: The mustachioed villain who ties Taylor up. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_32e69b5f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_32e69b5f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_32e69b5f | |
| Mean (Music) / int_3ad27180 | type |
The Chain of Harm | |
| Mean (Music) / int_3ad27180 | comment |
The Chain of Harm: The narrator speculates that her bully has become the way they are because they were bullied, too, and vows to break the chain and not become like them. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_3ad27180 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_3ad27180 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_3ad27180 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_3e5f74c | type |
Take That, Critics! | |
| Mean (Music) / int_3e5f74c | comment |
Take That, Critics!: "Mean" was reportedly written in response to a cruel review by music critic (speculated by many to be Bob Lefsetz), who claimed Swift "couldn't sing" and would have a short career. The song and the video bunch Caustic Critics up with bullies and mean jerks of all sorts and paints them out to be bitter, pathetic losers. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_3e5f74c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_3e5f74c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_3e5f74c | |
| Mean (Music) / int_5a33cf5 | type |
Future Loser | |
| Mean (Music) / int_5a33cf5 | comment |
Future Loser: Taylor anticipates this fate for her critic: | |
| Mean (Music) / int_5a33cf5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_5a33cf5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_5a33cf5 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_63389b0b | type |
Kids Are Cruel | |
| Mean (Music) / int_63389b0b | comment |
Kids Are Cruel: The girls in pink, who torment a girl they've decided to exclude. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_63389b0b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_63389b0b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_63389b0b | |
| Mean (Music) / int_740f59b4 | type |
ColorCodedForYourConvenience | |
| Mean (Music) / int_740f59b4 | comment |
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The girl bullies in the video all wear pink, while their victim wears blue. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_740f59b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_740f59b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_740f59b4 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_7ab81664 | type |
Kick Them While They Are Down | |
| Mean (Music) / int_7ab81664 | comment |
Kick Them While They Are Down: The subject of the song calls her out when she's wounded. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_7ab81664 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_7ab81664 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_7ab81664 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Mean (Music) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The whole song, but especially the bridge. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_7d89315b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_7d89315b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_7d89315b | |
| Mean (Music) / int_863fac26 | type |
Jerk Jock | |
| Mean (Music) / int_863fac26 | comment |
Jerk Jock: A group of them bully a Kurt Hummel-esque boy in the locker room. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_863fac26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_863fac26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_863fac26 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_872b9e12 | type |
Chained to a Railway | |
| Mean (Music) / int_872b9e12 | comment |
Chained to a Railway: Swift winds up tied up on a railroad tracks by the villain, but she frees herself without much difficulty. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_872b9e12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_872b9e12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_872b9e12 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_8a986cc7 | type |
The Great Depression | |
| Mean (Music) / int_8a986cc7 | comment |
The Great Depression: An inspiration for the music video's setting. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_8a986cc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_8a986cc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_8a986cc7 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_978937d6 | type |
Brand X | |
| Mean (Music) / int_978937d6 | comment |
Brand X: The boy in the locker room reads Fashion magazine, while the Chippy Cheddar's girl graduated from "College". | |
| Mean (Music) / int_978937d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_978937d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_978937d6 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_a3cdf764 | type |
Drinking on Duty | |
| Mean (Music) / int_a3cdf764 | comment |
Drinking on Duty: The bad guys doing this is how Taylor gets away. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_a3cdf764 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_a3cdf764 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_a3cdf764 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_a41f13e5 | type |
Bad Job, Worse Uniform | |
| Mean (Music) / int_a41f13e5 | comment |
Bad Job, Worse Uniform: Chippy Cheddar's, where you're the star! (The waitress has to dress up as a giant cardboard star.) | |
| Mean (Music) / int_a41f13e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_a41f13e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_a41f13e5 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ad17a1ac | type |
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ad17a1ac | comment |
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The narrator suspects that person tormenting them was once bullied in the same way, but refuses to give them any sympathy for it. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ad17a1ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ad17a1ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_ad17a1ac | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ae4b1ce1 | type |
Caustic Critic | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ae4b1ce1 | comment |
Caustic Critic: The critic makes the narrator feel like nothing, lies to humiliate her, and rants about how she can't sing. And sure enough, this person is a Future Loser. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ae4b1ce1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ae4b1ce1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_ae4b1ce1 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_c0d598fe | type |
Evil Gloating | |
| Mean (Music) / int_c0d598fe | comment |
Evil Gloating: The bad guy does this. A lot. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_c0d598fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_c0d598fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_c0d598fe | |
| Mean (Music) / int_c1d57cf7 | type |
"The Villain Sucks" Song | |
| Mean (Music) / int_c1d57cf7 | comment |
"The Villain Sucks" Song: The song brands Caustic Critics, bullies and jerks as mean, pathetic liars and Future Losers. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_c1d57cf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_c1d57cf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_c1d57cf7 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_c867e57 | type |
TheRoaringTwenties | |
| Mean (Music) / int_c867e57 | comment |
The Roaring '20s: Another inspiration for the setting Taylor's dress in the performance bits is flapper-esque. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_c867e57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_c867e57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_c867e57 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ca39ac3e | type |
Troubled Abuser | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ca39ac3e | comment |
Troubled Abuser: The narrator speculates this about her bully: | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ca39ac3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ca39ac3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_ca39ac3e | |
| Mean (Music) / int_cb14cb28 | type |
The Power of Language | |
| Mean (Music) / int_cb14cb28 | comment |
The Power of Language: Following the album's theme, the bully's words are knives to torment the narrator, and the song is her retaliation against this guy. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_cb14cb28 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_cb14cb28 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_cb14cb28 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_d9761a10 | type |
Performance Video | |
| Mean (Music) / int_d9761a10 | comment |
Performance Video: The video alternates between the scenes with other characters and footage of Taylor's band performing the song. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_d9761a10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_d9761a10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_d9761a10 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_de2aeec8 | type |
On a Soundstage All Along | |
| Mean (Music) / int_de2aeec8 | comment |
On a Soundstage All Along: The Performance Video aspect turns out in the end to have been a live performance in what looks like a high school auditorium. The video ends with the bullied little girl applauding from the audience. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_de2aeec8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_de2aeec8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_de2aeec8 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_e34400ab | type |
Ambiguously Gay | |
| Mean (Music) / int_e34400ab | comment |
Ambiguously Gay: One of the characters is a young man (in a purple sweater and bow tie) who is tormented by jocks when they catch him with a fashion magazine; he ends up being a successful designer. He could be gay or just bullied for his "feminine" interests. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_e34400ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_e34400ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_e34400ab | |
| Mean (Music) / int_e37ed279 | type |
Nemesis as Customer | |
| Mean (Music) / int_e37ed279 | comment |
Nemesis as Customer: A high-school girl has a demeaning job working in a fast-food restaurant where she has to dress like a five-pointed star. A lot of her mean classmates show up to mock her. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_e37ed279 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_e37ed279 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_e37ed279 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ec1f731c | type |
Individuality Is Illegal | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ec1f731c | comment |
Individuality Is Illegal: A girl in the video has to eat lunch alone because she's wearing a different dress than everyone else. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ec1f731c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_ec1f731c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_ec1f731c | |
| Mean (Music) / int_f64a9cf7 | type |
Earn Your Happy Ending | |
| Mean (Music) / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending: Literally, for the Chippy Cheddar's girl, who is working a job she hates to save up for college. She gets there in the end! | |
| Mean (Music) / int_f64a9cf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_f64a9cf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_f64a9cf7 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_fe5c7660 | type |
Eating Lunch Alone | |
| Mean (Music) / int_fe5c7660 | comment |
Eating Lunch Alone: A girl who is dressed differently from her peers is ostracized and forced to eat lunch alone in the bathroom. | |
| Mean (Music) / int_fe5c7660 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_fe5c7660 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_fe5c7660 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| Mean (Music) / int_name | comment |
||
| Mean (Music) / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Mean (Music) / int_name | |
| Mean (Music) / int_name | itemName |
Mean (Music) |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
Nemesis as Customer / int_b617a2c0 | |
| Mean (Music) | hasFeature |
The Power of Language / int_b617a2c0 |
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.