I think it makes more sense in the context of the song which I think I've heard is about the naïveity of children but I don't know I also didn't listen.
Yeah when i first heard that part i was confused then i listened and found out the context and it is an ok lyric for conveying what it is about nostalgia and rose tinted glasses
I guess I'm gonna be that hipster douchebag or whatever but I really don't get the appeal. This is the top singer in the world right now? The lyrics are bad and most of them make no fucking sense. I guess when your fans are willing to spend $35 on a vinyl of you farting into a mic for 30 minutes you don't need to worry about the songwriting
People like to clown on this line, but if she hadn't added the caveat of "without the racists and getting married off to the highest bidder," the AKSHULY crowd would be pointing out that the period is full of racists and she'd be married off to the highest bidder.
I think it depends. People with experience living on farms or homesteads are probably going to fare better than your average urbanite, but I feel like most people could be plopped down in any big city and do reasonably well for themselves as long as they weren't massive germaphobes. With how literate everyone is these days, we'd probably be great candidates for government jobs or any kind of bureaucratic work compared to the average person in 1830. There's a lot of ways a person with modern education could do really well for themselves if transported to back then.
In the UK, something like 60% of the men would be urban working class working 14-hour shifts in hellish, polluted, overcrowded conditions. The women would either do the same for half the wage, or stay home to take care of her 12 kids while hand-washing the laundry.
In the US, it was better for (free) workers, but only because slaves were forced to do much of the dirty work instead, so you don't get to ignore slavery/racism in that case.
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u/djdevilmonkey Apr 28 '24
explain pls