I am not a charli defender but I think the internet public interpreted "mean girls" in a very weird way?
with the recent sky Ferreira stuff, I feel like old "problematic" things about charli are being dragged up again. Many of these I can't defend lmao, which is fine, I just love her music, I don't need to know or like her as a person. I also know that as fans on the outside we won't know the full story of these things.
But even in a strictly narrative way, it really bothers me when people say "mean girls" glamorized Dasha because in my opinion it really doesn't? It's bothering me because it's a part of the wider trend of media illiteracy you see everywhere online, whereby fans believe choosing to cover a certain subject in music/movies/tv means you are fully behind that subject. You can write about bad things/bad people as a subject of a song without necessarily supporting everything they do. I think Dasha is actually a very interest subject musically- going from internet IT girl to being universally hated is something probably very familiar to Charli due to her circle. She's a crazy racist person with a weird trajectory but I think that exactly fits the kind of persona Charli was trying to explore with brat - weird, complicated women who don't fit neatly into boxes. I don't think the song paints her in a good light at all, and could be about any of these dead eyed it girls that people love to hate as much as any other. Obviously, because of fan culture, her making a song became -> glorifying Dasha -> being present day friends with with her -> agreeing with all of her political opinions. I could agree with these people that it's maybe "problematic" (if true) for charli to surround herself with these people, I couldn't agree with their assertion that BECAUSE she wrote a song about her, she agrees with her.
What do you guys think? Do you think Mean girls glorifies dasha?