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The song was reportedly written in response to a cruel review by music critic[[note]]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[[/note]] 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 [[AnAesop aesop]]. It shows scenes of other underdogs brushing off haters and eventually achieving their dreams, as Swift would go on to do.
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The song was reportedly written in response to a cruel review by music critic[[note]]Swift critic[[note]](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[[/note]] Lefsetz)[[/note]] 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 [[AnAesop aesop]]. It shows scenes of other underdogs brushing off haters and eventually achieving their dreams, as Swift would go on to do.
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This is very much an Open Secret, but still, she hasn't officially named names.
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The song was reportedly written in response to a cruel review by music critic[[note]]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, Lefsetz[[/note]] 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 [[AnAesop aesop]]. It shows scenes of other underdogs brushing off haters and eventually achieving their dreams, as Swift would go on to do.
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* TakeThatCritics: "Mean" was reportedly written in response to a cruel review by music critic Bob Lefsetz, who claimed Swift "couldn't sing" and would have a short career. The song and the video bunch {{Caustic Critic}}s up with bullies and mean jerks of all sorts and paints them out to be bitter, pathetic losers.
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* TakeThatCritics: "Mean" was reportedly written in response to a cruel review by music critic (speculated by many to be Bob Lefsetz, Lefsetz), who claimed Swift "couldn't sing" and would have a short career. The song and the video bunch {{Caustic Critic}}s up with bullies and mean jerks of all sorts and paints them out to be bitter, pathetic losers.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: The narrator suspects that person tormenting them was once bullied in the same way, but refuses to give them any sympathy for it.
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* TheGreatDepression: An inspiration for Taylor's setting.
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* TheGreatDepression: An inspiration for Taylor's the music video's setting.
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* TakeThatCritics: To critics in general (but especially that one guy).
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* TakeThatCritics: To critics "Mean" was reportedly written in general (but especially that one guy).response to a cruel review by music critic Bob Lefsetz, who claimed Swift "couldn't sing" and would have a short career. The song and the video bunch {{Caustic Critic}}s up with bullies and mean jerks of all sorts and paints them out to be bitter, pathetic losers.
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!!"Mean Tropes":
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* TheVillainSucksSong: This song could be a RealLife example of it.
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* TheVillainSucksSong: This The song could be a RealLife example of it.brands {{Caustic Critic}}s, bullies and jerks as mean, pathetic liars and {{Future Loser}}s.
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* TheChainOfHarm: 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.
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* TheChainOfHarm: The narrator speculates that her bully has become the way they are because they were bullied, too, and [[DefiedTrope vows to break the chain and not become like them.them]].
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The girl bullies in the video all wear pink, while their victim wears blue.
* CycleOfRevenge: Discussed. Taylor basically vows to stop the cycle (while throwing in a few last digs).
* CycleOfRevenge: Discussed. Taylor basically vows to stop the cycle (while throwing in a few last digs).
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: TheChainOfHarm: The girl bullies in narrator speculates that her bully has become the video all wear pink, while their victim wears blue.
* CycleOfRevenge: Discussed. Taylor basicallyway they are because they were bullied, too, and vows to stop break the cycle (while throwing in a few last digs).chain and not become like them.
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* EatingLunchAlone: A girl in [[IndividualityIsIllegal who dressed differently from her peers]] is ostracized and forced to eat lunch alone ''in the bathroom''.
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* EatingLunchAlone: A girl in [[IndividualityIsIllegal who is dressed differently from her peers]] is ostracized and forced to eat lunch alone ''in the bathroom''.
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* AnAesop: Don't be mean!
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* AnAesop: Don't be mean!When you devote your life to criticizing and putting people down, you become a JadedWashout while your victims actually improve their lives.
* CausticCritic: 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 FutureLoser.
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* DamselInDistress: Subverted. Taylor does not appear to be in emotional distress and gets out on her own.
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* EatingLunchAlone: A girl in a [[IndividualityIsIllegal socially unacceptable dress]] is ostracized and forced to eat lunch alone ''in the bathroom''.
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* EatingLunchAlone: A girl in a [[IndividualityIsIllegal socially unacceptable dress]] who dressed differently from her peers]] is ostracized and forced to eat lunch alone ''in the bathroom''.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: The subject of the song calls her out when she's wounded.
* ThePowerOfLanguage: Following the album's theme, the bully's words are knives to torment the narrator, and the song is her retaliation against this guy.
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-->I bet you got pushed around / Somebody made you cold
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Literally, for the Chippy Cheddar's girl, in at least two ways.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Literally, for the Chippy Cheddar's girl, who is working a job she hates to save up for college. She gets there in at least two ways.the end!
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* TheGreatDepression: An inspiration for Taylor's setting
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* NemesisAsCustomer: A high-school girl has a BadJobWorseUniform 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.
* OnASoundstageAllAlong: More like an actual stage.
* PerformanceVideo
* TheRoaringTwenties: Another inspiration for Taylor's setting.
* TakeThatCritics: While it's a matter of debate as to who inspired this song, Taylor has said it's about someone who criticized her a lot.
* TheVillainSucksSong: This song could be a RealLife example of it.
* OnASoundstageAllAlong: More like an actual stage.
* PerformanceVideo
* TheRoaringTwenties: Another inspiration for Taylor's setting.
* TakeThatCritics: While it's a matter of debate as to who inspired this song, Taylor has said it's about someone who criticized her a lot.
* TheVillainSucksSong: This song could be a RealLife example of it.
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* NemesisAsCustomer: A high-school girl has a BadJobWorseUniform [[BadJobWorseUniform 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.
* OnASoundstageAllAlong:More The PerformanceVideo aspect turns out in the end to have been a live performance in what looks like an actual stage.
a high school auditorium. The video ends with [[AudienceSurrogate the bullied little girl applauding from the audience]].
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PerformanceVideo: The video alternates between the scenes with other characters and footage of Taylor's band performing the song.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The whole song, but especially the bridge.
--->All you are is mean\\
And a liar, and pathetic\\
And alone in life and mean
* RevengeBallad: The song ''is'' the revenge.
* TheRoaringTwenties: Another inspiration for the setting Taylor'ssetting.
dress in the performance bits is [[TheFlapper flapper-esque]].
* TakeThatCritics:While it's a matter of debate as to who inspired this song, Taylor has said it's about someone who criticized her a lot.
To critics in general (but especially that one guy).
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The whole song, but especially the bridge.
--->All you are is mean\\
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And alone in life and mean
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!!!"Mean Tropes":
* AmbiguouslyGay: The boy in the locker room.
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* AnAesop: Don't be mean!
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* ChainedToARailway: Actually, Taylor was tied to it.
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* ChainedToARailway: Actually, Swift winds up tied up on a railroad tracks by the [[DastardlyWhiplash villain]], but she frees herself without much difficulty.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The girl bullies in the video all wear pink, while their victim wears blue.
* CycleOfRevenge: Discussed. Taylorwas tied basically vows to it.
* DastardlyWhiplash: The guy who ties Taylor tostop the tracks.cycle (while throwing in a few last digs).
-->I bet you got pushed around\\
Somebody made you cold\\
Well, the cycle ends right now\\
'Cause you can't lead me down that road
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The girl bullies in the video all wear pink, while their victim wears blue.
* CycleOfRevenge: Discussed. Taylor
* DastardlyWhiplash: The guy who ties Taylor to
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Somebody made you cold\\
Well, the cycle ends right now\\
'Cause you can't lead me down that road
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* EatingLunchAlone: The girl in the dress...in the bathroom...
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* FreudianExcuse: Taylor mentions it as the possibility for the target of the song:
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-->''Somebody made you cold.''
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-->''Somebody made you cold.''
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* FreudianExcuse: FutureLoser: Taylor mentions it as anticipates this fate for her critic:
-->And I can see you years from now in a bar\\
Talking over a football game\\
With that same big loud opinion\\
But nobody's listening\\
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-->''I'll bet you got pushed around,''
-->''Somebody made you cold.''same old bitter things
-->And I can see you years from now in a bar\\
Talking over a football game\\
With that same big loud opinion\\
But nobody's listening\\
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* JerkJock: Tormenting the boy in the locker room.
* KidsAreCruel: All three characters who aren't Taylor know this.
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* IndividualityIsIllegal: A girl in the video has to eat lunch alone because she's wearing a different dress than everyone else.
* JerkJock:Tormenting the A group of them bully a [[Series/{{Glee}} Kurt Hummel]]-{{e|xpy}}sque boy in the locker room.
* KidsAreCruel:All three characters The [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience girls in pink]], who aren't Taylor know this.torment a girl they've decided to exclude.
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->''"Someday, I'll be living in a big old city\\
And all you're ever gonna be is mean\\
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me\\
And all you're ever gonna be is mean\\
Why you gotta be so mean?"''
Mean is a 2010 song byMusic/TaylorSwift Music/TaylorSwift, from her album, ''Speak Now''. ''Music/SpeakNow''. It was made into a music video in 2011. The video 2011, which can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYa1eI1hpDE here]].
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The song was reportedly written in response to a cruel review by music critic 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 [[AnAesop aesop]]. It shows scenes of other underdogs brushing off haters and eventually achieving their dreams, as Swift would go on to do.
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->''"Someday, I'll be living in a big old city\\
And all you're ever gonna be is mean\\
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me\\
And all you're ever gonna be is mean\\
Why you gotta be so mean?"''
Mean is a 2010 song by
The song was reportedly written in response to a cruel review by music critic 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 [[AnAesop aesop]]. It shows scenes of other underdogs brushing off haters and eventually achieving their dreams, as Swift would go on to do.
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Mean is a 2010 song by Music/TaylorSwift from her album, ''Speak Now''. It was made into a music video in 2011.
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Mean is a 2010 song by Music/TaylorSwift from her album, ''Speak Now''. It was made into a music video in 2011.
2011. The video can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYa1eI1hpDE here]].
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* TheGreatDepression: An inspiration for Taylor's setting
* TheRoaringTwenties: Another inspiration for Taylor's setting.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Poor Literature/RamonaQuimby...
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Literally, for the Chippy Cheddar's girl.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Literally, for the Chippy Cheddar's girl.girl, in at least two ways.
* FreudianExcuse: Taylor mentions it as the possibility for the target of the song:
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-->"Somebody made you cold.''
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Mean is a 2010 song by Music/TaylorSwift from her album, ''Speak Now''. It was made into a music video in 2011.
Tropes associated with this song:
* AmbiguouslyGay: The boy in the locker room.
* BadJobWorseUniform: Chippy Cheddar's, where you're the star!
* BrandX: The boy in the locker room reads ''Fashion'' magazine, while the Chippy Cheddar's girl graduated from "College".
* ChainedToARailway: Actually, Taylor was tied to it.
* DastardlyWhiplash: The guy who ties Taylor to the tracks.
* DamselInDistress: Subverted. Taylor does not appear to be in emotional distress and gets out on her own.
* DrinkingOnDuty: The bad guys doing this is how Taylor gets away.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Literally, for the Chippy Cheddar's girl.
* EatingLunchAlone: The girl in the dress...in the bathroom...
* EvilGloating: The bad guy does this. A lot.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Poor Literature/RamonaQuimby...
* JerkJock: Tormenting the boy in the locker room.
* KidsAreCruel: All three characters who aren't Taylor know this.
* OnASoundstageAllAlong: More like an actual stage.
* TakeThatCritics: While it's a matter of debate as to who inspired this song, Taylor has said it's about someone who criticized her a lot.
* TheGreatDepression: An inspiration for Taylor's setting
* TheRoaringTwenties: Another inspiration for Taylor's setting.
Tropes associated with this song:
* AmbiguouslyGay: The boy in the locker room.
* BadJobWorseUniform: Chippy Cheddar's, where you're the star!
* BrandX: The boy in the locker room reads ''Fashion'' magazine, while the Chippy Cheddar's girl graduated from "College".
* ChainedToARailway: Actually, Taylor was tied to it.
* DastardlyWhiplash: The guy who ties Taylor to the tracks.
* DamselInDistress: Subverted. Taylor does not appear to be in emotional distress and gets out on her own.
* DrinkingOnDuty: The bad guys doing this is how Taylor gets away.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Literally, for the Chippy Cheddar's girl.
* EatingLunchAlone: The girl in the dress...in the bathroom...
* EvilGloating: The bad guy does this. A lot.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Poor Literature/RamonaQuimby...
* JerkJock: Tormenting the boy in the locker room.
* KidsAreCruel: All three characters who aren't Taylor know this.
* OnASoundstageAllAlong: More like an actual stage.
* TakeThatCritics: While it's a matter of debate as to who inspired this song, Taylor has said it's about someone who criticized her a lot.
* TheGreatDepression: An inspiration for Taylor's setting
* TheRoaringTwenties: Another inspiration for Taylor's setting.
