I’ve only seen it on the Hallmark Movie Channel. Last week when I looked it up, opinions were mixed on it. This week, all of the entries seem to LOVE this commercial and this song. I haven’t changed my opionion, however.
I lived in TX when a doctor deliberately crashed his car into a bridge abutment in an attempt to kill his 2nd wife. (He’d already killed his 1st wife, and he was afraid that the 2nd wife was going to rat him out.) When the crash didn’t kill her, he tried to inject her with something to speed the process, but was unsuccesful.
I guess what disturbs me about the song is the attitude that this girl’s happiness should depend upon whether some unidentified person is “there”, so she acts out by engaging in a reckless act. Or, she just runs out and purchases dangerous shoes! Whatever. I just can imagine impressionable teens unconsiously following the recipe for attention.
And what in the world does it have to do with shoes?
i guess i can’t get worked up about it, because while kids are impressionable, i can’t imagine anyone thinking crashing a car into an abutment is fun and something they should do. song lyrics are rife with insidious suggestions of what is normal and acceptable and fun, that are far more likely to color a teens perception and cause them to emulate it— and they mostly involve rampant sexual promiscuity. i play songpop on my iphone and the Today’s hits category is full of those type of songs.
did you just see the commercial, and then google the lyrics, or is there a crusade against this particular song out there on the internets?