The line “Hey there, Delilah / You be good, and don’t you miss me / Two more years and you’ll be done with school / And I’ll be makin’ history like I do” is an example of the classic erasure of women’s success when compared to men because who’s to say Delilah’s degree won’t come with a groundbreaking piece of research that changes her field forever and mr. plain white tees over is just writing simple chord progressions not discovering new theories of societal advancement. In this essay I will—
Delilah went out and earned her degree and mr. plain white tees had the AUDACITY to say “someday I’ll pay the bills with this guitar.” Delilah honey dump his ass & go make your money.
Not to read into this post too deep but this is an interview with the real ‘Delilah’ in the song where she talks about how she wasn’t actually even dating mr plain white tees guy when the song came out and for a long time the song was a source of discomfort for her.. She also talks about her accomplishments as an athlete in this interview, she’s a rlly talented long distance runner.
This isn’t the first time this sort of thing has happened. There’s a famous poet called Betjemen who wrote a poem called “A Subalterns Love Song” about this young lady. In the poem he goes to her house, describes it in detail, they place tennis, have some lemonade and go to a dance, they share a kiss and he proposes and she agrees.
The poem named the woman. She was a real person. They were not engaged. He wrote this fantastical account of a fictional day together and the woman had only met him ONCE before; they had shared a taxi.
Now, here’s where it gets really creepy. His description of her house was almost exactly perfect. So by using her name and describing her house in so much detail everyone thought it was true.
Our teacher told use she got married as soon as possible to change her name so she wouldn’t be associated with that poem anymore.
Dama Cherepaha 