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3rd May 2021
05:02pm BST

"I don’t know one girl or woman who hasn’t had a weird experience or a really bad experience. And men too – young boys are taken advantage of constantly. I wanted to say that it doesn't matter who you are, what your life is, your situation, who you surround yourself with, how strong you are, how smart you are. You can always be taken advantage of. That's a big problem in the world of domestic abuse or statutory rape - girls that were very confident and strong-willed finding themselves in situations where they're like, 'Oh my god, I'm the victim here?"
But you ruined her in a year Don't act like it was hard And you swear you didn't know (Didn't know) No wonder why you didn't ask She was sleepin' in your clothes (In your clothes) But now she's got to get to classAs the song continues, she goes on to say, "You said she thought she was your age/How dare you?" - a very precise notion that you don't need to dig any deeper to understand. She also spoke of the double-standard still held against people in her position, referencing those who take issue with her talking about the abuse of power and people taking advantage of minors, whilst simultaneously posing in revealing clothes. In short, she tells them to get stuffed and says "there's no excuse", declaring instead that “It’s about taking that power back, showing it off and not taking advantage with it [...] I’m not letting myself be owned anymore.”
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