{"id":14894,"date":"2014-04-10T10:19:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T17:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2014\/04\/10\/14894.html"},"modified":"2014-04-10T10:19:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T17:19:30","slug":"unreliable-narrator-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2014\/04\/10\/unreliable-narrator-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreliable-narrator songs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Started wondering yesterday about songs with unreliable narrators. I feel like there are a bunch of them; any suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>The song that brought this to mind is &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/i-wont-say-im-in-love\/id191999705?i=192000233\">I Won't Say (I'm in Love)<\/a>&rdquo; from <cite>Hercules<\/cite>, but she's only a little bit unreliable, or maybe she's just in denial. The next one I thought of, in somewhat the same vein, is Susan Werner's &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanwerner.com\/content\/music\/lyrics\/lotgsg_track11.html\">Much At All<\/a>,&rdquo; with its repeated refrain &ldquo;I guess that I don't miss you much at all.&rdquo; (You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DtEoFymPQ4k\">listen to that song<\/a> on YouTube, though I recommend ignoring the added visuals.)<\/p>\n<p>And there are songs in which two people make conflicting claims about what happened, like &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolyrics.com\/dont-you-want-me-lyrics-human-league.html\">Don't You Want Me<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But I'd be interested in clearer-cut examples of songs where it's obvious to the listener that the narrator is an unreliable one, especially if the song never explicitly says that.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started wondering yesterday about songs with unreliable narrators. I feel like there are a bunch of them; any suggestions? The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}