Talk:Belle (song)/@comment-17971101-20140707235819/@comment-1672596-20140806030822

Okay, in exactly three of her lyrics in the song, she's usually complaining about the village due to the predictable lifestyle and it being the provincial life. Probably the entire beginning with her lyrics is her effectively complaining about the village. Those lyrics really needed to be altered, because it carried the implication, however unintentional, that Belle was somewhat rude and conceited like Gaston. It's even more of a problem because the song lyrics don't even give any indication of what exactly she actually disliked about the village besides it being provincial. Her lyrics of her complaints about the village even outnumber the ones dedicated to her love of reading.

Now, if they had actually explained why Belle disliked the village beyond it being provincial, like having the village basically being like Gotham City from the Batman comics (ie, extremely broken and corrupt in terms of the populace and/or the law and government), or if they showed the villagers actively abusing her in various ways like the episode Boys of Bummer from the Simpsons, heck, how Meg Griffin is generally treated by pretty much everyone in Quahog town in Family Guy, even her own family, or at the very least like how Cinderella's stepfamily treated Cinderella like utter crap, I can at least see why Belle would hate the village.

I also didn't like the implications in the lyrics that the village viewed Belle as odd simply because she loved to read. Aside from the fact that this was during a time where there was a lot more literacy in France, and even women were doing some penmanship without too much of a batted eye, it comes across as being the typical feminist propaganda/lie that women couldn't get educated at all until the 1960s, and before that time only "rich white males" got any education with the implication that women were deliberately screwed over. I know that propaganda is being spread because at least one of my professors in college actually spread that propaganda.

At the risk of sounding rude, is that clarified enough?