Crying in Chanel
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I hope I am never crying in Chanel. Drake said, “you went through too much for it, you had to fake fall in love for it,” because how far will you go for a Kelly…?
When I first listened to the song I wondered if it was about someone buying their love, or even for leverage. Or was he talking about women who only cared about him because of what he could provide and buy for them. Either way, both evils live in our world, and so does greed.
Luxury isn't rare anymore, that confusion is everywhere, and now people think everybody is just using each other. Nobody has innocent intentions because our generation knows how to buy love, not show it. We know how to flex love, not feel it.
Yeah no thanks. Maybe it’s living in South Florida, people falling for the Miami propaganda everyday, having this, that, and the other gives you your status, wealth, and respect. I won’t be a part of the world where ‘stuff’ makes you better than the other.
But I wonder when love became so transactional. When price tags become proof of devotion. Loyalty is being paid for, and the receipts hold my tears as you hold it over me because how could I ever be ungrateful for you after a gift like this?
What someone buys for you doesn't determine their worth, nor their character, even though a gift can be nothing but pure. But nowadays it's expected, and the meanings behind giving are tainted. The “as he should” mentality over being grateful from the receiver. And the ‘look at what I did for you,’ and not ‘look how much I love you,” from the giver.
It's like when your parents paid for something for you as an adult, and they hold it over you because they need that power, control, and that ownership that they in fact did do something for you. Is character and love determined by what is given to them?
Because if he cant buy me that Birkin, then no thanks right? It's so messed up, because how did we get so lost in materialism depicting it for how much someone loves you. He treats you like shit, but hey nothing like him buying you a balenciaga city bag. That definitely justifies everything.
Is there a price on your love? How far will you push to get what you want? These days people are doing about anything, degrading or not, because we just live in an economy where greed is honored, selfishness is key, and love is the bag he bought me,
Excuses lie in the receipts, and apologies are a shopping spree. And don't get me wrong, I love me a good gift, when I know it comes from a place of love, and not guilt. At that point what does this beautiful bag represent? Definitely not my divine femininity, or hard work.
Crying in chanel represents conditional loyalty. Think about Drake, and how people probably love him for what he is able to provide for them, his status, and wealth. People don't care, they care about how they can use you to their advantage, and success attracts a fakeness, a performance of attraction.
People dragging each other on the ground to get something out of them, something for themselves, while they shoot for the satisfaction and reassurance from the people who would do the same exact thing back.
This isn't who has the best stuff contest in this life. When did connection get so confused with compensation, and when did status give you security? Don't lose your class for worth, I want a Chanel bag, I want the world too, but I also strive for riches that don't cost me anything and successes that aren't measured by money.
Strike out,
Kaden Horn
Boca Raton
Kaden Horn is a content writer for Strike Magazine Boca. She is a free-spirited Leo who loves to write all things health, mindfulness, and beauty. A future almond mommy, who hopes to write for the benefit of all and for the peace of her own. You can reach her at kaden.horn813@gmail.com, or her Instagram @kadennhunter
