It’s easy being a teenager. What adult hasn’t thought that?<\/p>\n
Let’s face it, for most teenagers life is very simple: no work, very few rules (keep your room clean, don’t stay out too late, don’t make too much noise, etc), able to come and go as they please, pretty much.<\/p>\n
But it isn’t like that – it isn’t like that at all for them.<\/p>\n
Teenagers are hybrid monsters.<\/p>\n
Teenagers are neither adults nor children. Their bodies are subject to enormous, sudden variations. Their mental states are unpredictably affected by massive amounts of powerful, naturally-produced, mood enhancing\/mood destroying narcotics.<\/p>\n
Hormones – and puberty – combine to give teenagers the physical appearance of adults, with all the pleasing features that entails, yet those same hormones give teenagers the emotional stability of a five-year old child.<\/p>\n
For the vast majority of teenagers, every day is filled with conflict. Every day is a day of imbalance.<\/p>\n
Trust\/distrust.<\/p>\n
Love\/loathing.<\/p>\n
Trust\/distrust.<\/p>\n
Teenagers are capable of feeling all of these things – and some are capable of feeling all of these things at the same time.<\/p>\n
It isn’t easy, being a teenager.<\/p>\n
Capturing the angst, documenting the uncertainty of being a teenager was, I used to think, an impossible job.<\/p>\n
And then I heard the track ‘Teen Idle’ by Marina and the Diamonds.<\/p>\n
This song is an accurate, insightful portrayal of the conflicts that inhabit the physical\/mental systems of a teenage girl.<\/p>\n
You think you’re messed up?<\/p>\n
Read these lyrics and become, for just a few minutes, a teenager once again; experience the conflicts that become, to a teenager, routine…<\/p>\n
‘Teen Idle’, by Marina and the Diamonds<\/strong><\/p>\n I wanna be a bottle blonde I wanna stay inside all day Yeah I wish I\u2019d been a, wish I\u2019d been a teen, teen idle I wanna be a virgin pure Yeah I wish I\u2019d been a, wish I\u2019d been a teen, teen idle I wish I wasn\u2019t such a narcissist Yeah I wish I\u2019d been a, wish I\u2019d been a teen, teen idle Feeling super, super, super! Suicidal It’s easy being a teenager. What adult hasn’t thought that? Let’s face it, for most teenagers life is very simple: no work, very few rules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI don\u2019t know why but I feel conned
\nI wanna be an idle teen
\nI wish I hadn\u2019t been so clean<\/p>\n
\nI want the world to go away
\nI want blood, guts and chocolate cake
\nI wanna be a real fake<\/p>\n
\nWish I\u2019d been a prom queen fighting for the title
\nInstead of being sixteen and burning up a bible
\nFeeling super, super (super!) suicidal
\nThe wasted years, the wasted youth
\nThe pretty lies, the ugly truth
\nAnd the day has come where I have died
\nOnly to find I\u2019ve come alive<\/p>\n
\nA 21st century whore
\nI want back my virginity
\nSo I can feel infinity
\nI wanna drink until I ache
\nI wanna make a big mistake
\nI want blood, guts and angel cake
\nI\u2019m gonna puke it anyway<\/p>\n
\nWish I\u2019d been a prom queen fighting for the title
\nInstead of being sixteen and burning up a bible
\nFeeling super, super (super!) suicidal
\nThe wasted years, the wasted youth
\nThe pretty lies, the ugly truth
\nAnd the day has come where I have died
\nOnly to find I\u2019ve come alive
\nCome alive, I\u2019ve come alive<\/p>\n
\nI wish I didn\u2019t really kiss the mirror when I\u2019m on my own
\nOh God! I\u2019m gonna die alone
\nAdolescence didn\u2019t make sense
\nA little loss of innocence
\nThe ugly years of being a fool
\nAin\u2019t youth meant to be beautiful?<\/p>\n
\nWish I\u2019d been a prom queen fighting for the title
\nInstead of being sixteen and burning up a bible
\nFeeling super, super (super!) suicidal
\nThe wasted years, the wasted youth
\nThe pretty lies, the ugly truth
\nAnd the day has come where I have died
\nOnly to find I\u2019ve come alive
\nOnly to find I\u2019ve come alive
\nOnly to find I\u2019ve come alive
\nCome alive<\/p>\n
\nFeeling super, super, super! Suicidal
\nFeeling super, super, super! Suicidal
\nCome alive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"