About this song
- On “Triple Dog Dare,” Dacus sings wistfully about another old friend, who perhaps could have been something more. “That was hard for me to write,” she says, “realizing that this friendship was complicated by being queer, but I wasn’t out to myself at the time. What would this have meant if I had been comfortable with myself? Would it have ended better or worse?” - Rolling Stone ”In high school I was friends with this girl and we would spend all our time together. Neither of us were out, but I think that her mom saw that there was romantic potential, even though I wouldn’t come out to myself for many years later. The first verses of the song are true: Her mom kept us apart, our friendship didn’t last. But the ending of the song is this fictitious alternative where the characters actually do prioritise each other and get out from under the thumbs of their parents and they steal a boat and they run away and it’s sort of left to anyone’s interpretation whether or not they succeed at that or if they die at sea. There’s no such thing as nonfiction. I felt empowered by finding out that I could just do that, like no one was making me tell the truth in that scenario. Songwriting doesn’t have to be reporting.” - via Apple Music . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. — lastfm
