Originally Posted by kriswright

At my office, one of the songs on the hold music is "Mean" by Taylor Swift. It's catchy throwaway pop, but it's remarkable to me for two reasons.

- It's the first country song I've ever heard where the small town people are the bad guys and the people "living in a big ol' city" are the good guys. Really shocking!

- The big crime the "mean" character in the song seems to have committed is saying that Taylor Swift can't sing. Swift, in retaliation, writes a hit song where she calls this guy "a liar and pathetic and alone in life and mean". Which one of these people do you think is meaner?