Ashlee utilizes deliberate cognitive dissonance

[koganbot]

"Little Miss Obsessive" (Track Five on Bittersweet World):

It's like a fairy tale without a happy ending
But then again maybe we are just pretending
Why does it have to be so unfair?
Tell me that you care

"Ragdoll" (Track Six on Bittersweet World):

I've been thrown
Round once or twice
Beneath it all
Was born to fight
I hear your voice in my head
And it's killin' me
I've never been a fan of
Happy endings

Btw, the chorus on "Little Miss Obsessive" has excellent lyrics, the way she keeps working different variations on the meaning of "over" (as Dave points out, it is after all a song about being obsessive), and then "desperate" and "obssessive" and "possessive" all pile up one on another, with "over" reasserting itself at the end.

And I guess we're really over, come over, I'm not over it
And I guess we're really over, so come over, I'm not over it
Late night you make me feel like I'm desperate
I'm not desperate, oh
A little bit possessive, Little Miss Obsessive can't get over it, no

Also, her using consecutive stressed syllables on "Late night you make me feel like I'm desperate" helps it sound desperate.

My favorite Bittersweet one-liner so far:

I gave you my sky before I found my ground
(from "No Time For Tears")

Stanza that gets away with using the phrase "unicorns and fairy wings":

Feels like I'm in Candyland
I'm going down da chute again
With unicorns and fairy wings
I think I've had too much to drink
(from "Hot Stuff")

Ashlee doing her impression of a bird flying with one wing
--That clip of "Little Miss Obsessive" on Leno 4/28/08 is now gone: here's the same performance but a very poor rip:

Watch on YouTube

Comments

[weasel-seeker.livejournal.com]

While we're on cognitive dissonance, I was just randomly listening to Skye's Girl Like Me (bonus track from Sound Soldier) to hear this gem of line:

Baby, what you get is what you see / and this is what you get with a girl like me

Amusing, if only because the first time I heard Skye in like...2005?...when I was brushing her off as one of the post-Avril crowd, was Tangled Up in Me:

I'm the girl you never get just quite what you see

While I definitely don't think this is deliberate in the least (Skye's lyrical choices aren't usually deliberate per se), it was worth a chuckle.