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Analysis Of The Song 'Mean Girls'

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Mean Girls is a musical about a girl named Cady Heron who has just moved to Illinois from Africa. When Cady comes to her new highschool, she is seen as an outcast and has no friends. That is until lunch one day when she is invited to sit with the Plastics; Regina, Karen, and Gretchen. Taking advantage of this, two students who took Cady under their wing, Damian and Janis, have Cady get the inside information on what is happening between the Plastics. They also want to put an end to Regina George’s supremacy in the school. But with this plan, Cady learns that you cannot deal with popularity without facing your own problems along the way. Regina George represents a bad image of what supporting women is. Regina is the “Queen Bee of the school and leader of The Plastics. She gets everything she wants and is very controlling over her friends. The main problem with Regina though is that while she becomes more and more popular every day, she puts more and more girls down. She criticizes many and makes rude comments about them behind their back, as seen in her burn book. Regina’s burn …show more content…

Regina is a fugly cow. Hey Cady, how ya like me now?”. When Regina says this, she is referring to her burn book. In her burn book, Regina put a photo of her with the comment “Regina is a fugly cow.” underneath. Regina put herself in the burn book so she could frame Cady for being the bully when in reality, it was all Regina. In the song, Regina also says, “I wanna watch the world burn. I got the gasoline. I wanna watch the world burn. And everyone gets mean.” When she says this, Regina is talking about how she wants to see the burn book spark a fight between the girls of the school. When Regina releases the papers in the burn book, this is exactly what happens. A major fight breaks out between the girls of the school and they all begin to pin each other down, blaming each other for the comments made about

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