Music Review: All-American Rejects "Dirty Little Secret"
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Dirty Little Secret
Album: Move Along
Year: 2005
Tyson Ritter wants to keep a relationship hidden from his friends and family in the crumbly "Dirty Little Secret."
Rattled guitars open the single, setting a desperate tone. In the first verse, he tells his new girlfriend to to be open with him if he made a mistake. He likes spending time with her a couple days a week.
In the pre-chorus, he wants to know the type of guys she's dated and dumped in the past. He also wants to know if she hates passive-aggressiveness and withholding. He feels he could divulge every detail of his life with her.
In the chorus, he tells her that no one can find out their dating. If she says anything to her family or friends, he will break up with her.
In the second verse, he says their relationship will be private. No one can interfere and ruin it.
The pre-chorus and chorus are sung again.
In the bridge, he’s afraid that she won't love him back. It's a possibility she thinks he's a jerk and is only playing him. Once she hangs out with his friends and meets his family, she may think less of him. It's bothering him and he wishes he didn't have to be secretive.
The chorus is sung twice.
Ritter says "who has to know" twice to end the single.
Each girl he's introduced to his friends, she's either fallen for one of them or thought they were weird. Now, he has a girlfriend who is kind, sweet, and is absolutely crazy about him. However, he fears the same thing would happen and he'll lose her. The only solution he has to not to tell anyone. He's willing to stall and risk alientating her.
Ritter's autocratic vocals are a hindrance and the weak link. She's going to listen to him and not breathe a word. His anger takes over the song and stains every lyric. If he had delivered the words in an anxious way, the single would've worked.
The snippy arrangement intimidates and hawks the girl, making sure she's silent.
The complex "Dirty Little Secret" is derailed by Ritter’s off-putting, scary attitude.
Album: Move Along
Year: 2005
Tyson Ritter wants to keep a relationship hidden from his friends and family in the crumbly "Dirty Little Secret."
Rattled guitars open the single, setting a desperate tone. In the first verse, he tells his new girlfriend to to be open with him if he made a mistake. He likes spending time with her a couple days a week.
"Let me know that I've done wrong/When I've known this all along/I go around a time or two/Just to waste my time with you."
In the pre-chorus, he wants to know the type of guys she's dated and dumped in the past. He also wants to know if she hates passive-aggressiveness and withholding. He feels he could divulge every detail of his life with her.
"Tell me all that you've thrown away/Find out games you don't wanna play/You are the only one that needs to know."
In the chorus, he tells her that no one can find out their dating. If she says anything to her family or friends, he will break up with her.
"I'll keep you my dirty little secret (Dirty little secret/Don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret(Just another regret, hope that you can keep it/My dirty little secret."
In the second verse, he says their relationship will be private. No one can interfere and ruin it.
"Who has to know/When we live such fragile lives/It's the best way we survive/I go around a time or two/Just to waste my time with you."
The pre-chorus and chorus are sung again.
In the bridge, he’s afraid that she won't love him back. It's a possibility she thinks he's a jerk and is only playing him. Once she hangs out with his friends and meets his family, she may think less of him. It's bothering him and he wishes he didn't have to be secretive.
"Who has to know/The way she feels inside (inside)/Those thoughts I can't deny (deny/These sleeping dogs won't lie (won't lie)/And all I've tried to hide/It's eating me apart/Trace this line back."
The chorus is sung twice.
Ritter says "who has to know" twice to end the single.
Each girl he's introduced to his friends, she's either fallen for one of them or thought they were weird. Now, he has a girlfriend who is kind, sweet, and is absolutely crazy about him. However, he fears the same thing would happen and he'll lose her. The only solution he has to not to tell anyone. He's willing to stall and risk alientating her.
Ritter's autocratic vocals are a hindrance and the weak link. She's going to listen to him and not breathe a word. His anger takes over the song and stains every lyric. If he had delivered the words in an anxious way, the single would've worked.
The snippy arrangement intimidates and hawks the girl, making sure she's silent.
The complex "Dirty Little Secret" is derailed by Ritter’s off-putting, scary attitude.