Little Game ~ Benny: Meaning to me

Benny's song, Little Game, inspires me a lot. I love this song and consider it part of my Fandoms. I want to take a look into what he lyrics really mean to me. I know the song is mainly about being your own person and not conforming to society, but I want to talk about what exactly each lyric means. If you haven't listen

to the song, heres the link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjR9YSNjuXQAhWnh1QKHWbMBM0QyCkIHDAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DWNr3x1kVVEc&usg=AFQjCNH_xytmidLVCzv0jXNBBO3OLgnAuA&bvm=bv.141320020,bs.2,d.cGw

The video is also very meaningful, but I want to talk about the lyrics first. The words, "Play us like pawns and relentlessly confine, into living up to gender roles and having absent minds" is how he starts the song. I think this really significant. This sentence means that society forces us to play our previously selected roles and not to think for ourselves. Next he says "don't you think it's funny how they tell us how to live? Don't you think it's funny how we're all delinquent kids?" He's trying to bring the fact that teenagers are told how to live, think and what to do, to our attention. He's also saying that whenever we try to break out of the mold were considered "delinquent little kids" and dismissed as a flaw. The chorus, "Hush boy, oh hush boy, don't say a word. Throw on a jersey and no one gets hurt. Hush girl oh hush girl, just bat your eyes", is saying that as long as you're quiet and fit into your roles you wont be penalized. "No one gets hurt" meaning we won't be looked down upon or shunned for our personalities. "Play our little game, play our little game" is saying you have to hide who we are and play the game of making them think you conformed to who they want you to be.

In the second verse, Benny states "Bounded all thoughts and corrected common sense, you're raising suicidal with your predetermined titles", talking to the people of society, who force us to conform. His meaning, to me, is that they control our thoughts and strip us of who we are. They make us grow into them without using our common sense and he is trying to get the listeners to realize how detrimental that type of person is to an individual. He's saying that people stripped of their individuality aren't happy. They don't want to live where they can't be themselves. Continuing, he he tells the type of titles by saying "Like "a mess, distressed, I am unimpressed, you're excess. A dress is all you'll ever be". These titles are given to people who try to be different. By telling them they're a mess and that your'e "unimpressed" with who they are makes them feel like they don't matter. By telling girls "a dress is all they'll ever be" is telling them they don't matter as a person. All that matters is what they wear and how they act and unless they are who they are expected to be, they won't be accepted.

Toward the end of the verse, when he says "Gender roles impose control deceive progressive times. Welcome to the land of the broken minds", I think this specific part is really influential and I think it's really important to the song. It always stands out to me when I listen. By saying this, he's calling the toxic part of society out. The people who say they want what's best and want equality but when it doesn't fit their agendas, its wrong and horrible. He is saying, these are the people who break others. These are the reasons why people are so broken down, and hurt. These specific molds that you want them to fit into aren't going to fit their personality and as you push them and force them into these molds, you break them. This is my favorite line of the song, because it means so much.

In conclusion, this song inspires me a lot and it is so meaningful to me. It is obviously not referring to everyone in society, because there are people that let, or sometimes help others be themselves. I also don't think it is referring to only teens. I explained it from my point of view. This song refers to everyone who wants to be someone, but has someone telling them they can't because that's not what they're supposed to do or how they are supposed to act. I want anyone who has been told they can't to know that I think you can, and it doesn't matter who you are. Be who you want to be. Be who you are. Be the person you are happy being.