Sit Still Look Pretty By Daya Summary

“Sit Still, Look Pretty” by Daya addresses the topic of feminism. The songs starts off with Daya singing about how she doesn’t need to impress anyone, and how she isn’t going to turn into a barbie just to impress someone else. She then proceeds to talk about how she doesn't need anybody in her life she has her own Queen and she don't need a king. The rest of the song she just repeats this over and over again but in different ways and she talks about how she doesn't want to sit around and pretty she wants to do something. “Sit Still, Look Pretty” carries out the theme that you don’t have to conform or act a certain way simply because society says so. In these two lines“Could dress up/ To get love/ But guess what?/ I'm never gonna be that girl/ Who's living in a Barbie

Could wake up/ In make up/ and play dumb/ Pretending that I need a boy/ Who's going to treat me like a toy,” (Daya 1-10) we first get the idea that the speaker is against trying to impress someone. She states that she’s “never gonna be that girl/ Who’s living in a barbie world” (Daya 4-5) which means that she’s not willing to be fake for anyone. Within the lines “That Snow White/ She did right/ In her life/ Had 7 men to do the chores/ 'Cause that's not what a lady's for” (Daya 26-30) Daya starts to say that Snow White was right when she had the men doing the chores again bringing up the fact that there should be no gender role. The theme completely declared in the chorus that goes like this “Oh, I don't know what you've been told/ But this gal right here's gonna rule the world/ Yeah, that is where I'm gonna be because I wanna be/ No, I don't wanna sit still, look pretty’ You get off on your 9 to 5/ Dream of picket fences and trophy wives/ But no, I'm never gonna be 'cause I don't wanna be/ No, I don't wanna sit still look pretty,” (Daya 15-22). Here Daya reveals that she isn’t gonna sit around and take it anymore, she isn’t gonna be the girl who does that