☝️ Key Points
- The song 'Complicated' addresses the theme of authenticity and honesty in relationships, as well as the frustration with a lack of genuineness.
- 'Complicated' criticizes people who behave falsely and try to appear cool in the presence of others, even though they come across as rather ridiculous.
- Avril Lavigne poses the question in the song of why people make things more complicated than they need to be and act as if they were someone else.
- The chorus of 'Complicated' addresses the hardships of life, but also criticizes people who don't approach their problems in an honest way.
- The song expresses the desire for honesty in relationships and the frustration with inaccuracy and falseness.
Interpretation
The song 'Complicated' by
Avril Lavigne is an exploration of authenticity and frustration towards people who pretend to be something they're not. Lavigne sings about someone she likes when they're alone ('I like you the way you are...when you're talking to me one on one'), but who changes when around others ('Somebody else round everyone else').
She criticizes this person for trying to be cool and not being able to relax ('You're trying to be cool, you look like a fool to me'). She questions why this person has to make things so complicated ('Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?'). She's frustrated by how this person acts like someone else ('I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated').
The chorus of the song emphasizes the hardships of life ('And you fall and you crawl and you break and you take what you get'), but Lavigne accuses this person of not being authentic ('And you turn it into, honestly, you promise me, I'm never gonna find you fake it').
Overall, the song 'Complicated' expresses Lavigne's desire for honesty and authenticity in relationships, and the frustration towards the opposite.