This allows her to remain a girl despite being in her 50s. How Different Is That, Really?: She is Madonna she has achieved difference. Spell It Out for Us: “Every record sounds the same / You’ve got to step into my world.” Who Isn’t She Like?: “Cause I’m a different kind of girl.” How Different Is That, Really?: Tremendously. Spell It Out for Us: “Well, her eyes, they’re rubies and pearls.” Who Isn’t She Like?: “She’s not made like those other girls.” Most women who are not sociopaths or being compelled by a warlock do the same. How Different Is That, Really?: Not at all. Spell It Out for Us: “Does what she wants to do/ And says what she wants to say.” Who Isn’t She Like?: “She’s a different kind of girl.” How Different Is That, Really?: The narrator lays claim to honesty but gives no details as to what makes this girl different. Who Isn’t She Like?: “And to be completely honest/ You’re not like all the rest.” Since she has been broken down, this claim is specious and can never be proven. Being only a little too loud suggests she is no louder than at least 40% of the total girl population however, her potential to bring the world’s armies to their knees is compelling. How Different Is That, Really?: Dependent upon several factors. Spell It Out for Us: “She stood out in the crowd, was a little too loud/ But that’s why we love her/ She’s not like other girls/ She could have conquered the world/ Until you broke her down” Who Isn’t She Like?: “She’s not like other girls.”
has tripled since the 1970s, women still overwhelmingly dominate the profession, and often act as unofficial caregivers to injured or aging family members. While the number of male nurses in the U.S. How Different Is That, Really?: Very little.
Spell It Out for Us: “Baby, I can ease the ache, the ache.” Who Isn’t She Like?: “When will you realize/ Baby, I’m not like the rest?” While plenty of other girls enjoy jewelry and flowers in equal measure, her ability to assure the narrator her preference for blues music without speaking suggests that she may possess rudimentary telepathic abilities. How Different Is That, Really?: Her difference is conditional. Spell It Out for Us: “She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes/ And I knew without asking she was into the blues/ She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls.” Who Isn’t She Like?: “I knew right away she was not like other girls.” Leather handbags, blush, and white boots are fairly common, although harming an eagle is a federal offense.īand: The Grateful Dead (or Sublime, depending on your frame of reference) How Different Is That, Really?: Not particularly. Spell It Out for Us: “She got hot/ And they did not/ Satin tights, boots so white/ Leather handbag, out of sight/ An eagle feather in her feathered hair/ Dash of rouge, buyer beware.” Who Isn’t She Like?: “The other girls in town.” She’s certainly more inscrutable than other girls, breathing as they may or may not be for only one day of the week, which has to count for something. How Different Is That, Really?: Difficult to parse.
Spell It Out for Us: “I don’t breathe for Sundays.”
Who Isn’t She Like?: “I am not like other girls.” The majority of girls live in Vermont, or in apartments, and speak primarily to math teachers and small dogs. How Different Is That, Really?: Very different. Spell It Out for Us: “She’s not like the other girls/ She lives in the clouds/ She talks to the birds.” Who Isn’t She Like?: “She’s not like the other girls I know.” But who is the most different of all the Different Girls, and what sets her apart? But better, and stranger, and operating on a higher frequency. Not its opposite, for then she would be allowing those other girls to dictate the terms of her difference. Whatever the other girls do, she must do its unlike. She kicks rocks with steel-toed boots and uses the resultant dust for nail polish. Whatever the other girls are doing–whether it be investing in rental properties or attending business conferences–she does the opposite. Whether in kind or in degree, she is set apart. It’s hard to say what exactly makes her different, but rest assured that she is very much so. She is like the bald eagle wearing a steel crown circling high above the prison fortress the hourglass is trapped in. Other girls are as alike as sands in the hourglass, but not she. As the Saddest Girl is to singer-songwriters, so is the Different Girl to rockists and pop stars.
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