Do you ever listen to a song and just become wrapped up in the message? The power in the words speaks to you in a way that you have never been spoken to before and gives you a level of strength that you didn’t even know you had. You listen to the song on an endless loop, embracing every second of it and appreciating how relatable it is until you cannot stand the sound of it anymore. For me, that song was “Love Myself” by Hailee Steinfield, or so I thought.

When I first heard the song “Love Myself” I immediately became obsessed. It was so incredible to hear a song centered around the amazing idea of self-empowerment. The singer chanted about loving herself and not needing anyone to make her happy, which is a message that needs to be heard nowadays. Many people in this generation tend to suffer from self-acceptance issues, so the idea of a song that promoted that subject was awesome, but after a few times listening to the song, I noticed something interesting about it.

You know how, after listening to a song over and over again, you start to memorize the lyrics? Well, I had officially gotten to that point with this song, but once I had started to memorize the lyrics, I also started to dissect the lyrics.

“When I get chills at night

I feel it deep inside without you, yeah

Know how to satisfy

Keeping that tempo right without you, yeah”

Wait, what did she just say?! Maybe I’m just misinterpreting….

Pictures in my mind on replay

I'm gonna touch the pain away

I know how to scream my own name

Scream my name”

What the *bleep*? There is no misinterpreting that! She’s literally “loving herself” right now!

Suddenly, the song that had once empowered me was starting to make me uncomfortable and I didn’t know how to react. Here I was thinking that this song was about empowerment and self-acceptance, but it was about a whole different kind of “love.” The song “Love Myself” was about promoting masturbation!

After listening to the song and finding the real message behind the piece, I decided to ask a few friends of my own to see what they thought the message of the song was. Little to my surprise, none of my friends thought of the song as anything but a feel-good piece (that was until I showed them the lyrics).

Do you think this view of the lyrics is over analytical or do you agree? Comment below and let us know!