In Girl All The Bad Guys want we are told that the eponymous girl is “a little cooler than me” by the singer.
Is this under statement, or is she really only a little cooler? He seems a fairly cool dude. He’s got a moped. He’s a singer in a band (presumably, not confirmed in the lyrics but a general assumption). He just doesn’t do things she likes. That doesn’t make him uncool.
He clearly thinks he has at least some shot with her, and apparently coolness is a factor in determining that. He changes his behaviour to suit her sure, but that isn’t going to make him cool if he isn’t. And various things he describes her liking seem pretty uncool or neutral. Moustaches and mullets for example can be hugely variable. For all of the many virtues of Godsmack I am not sure that we’d say they are universally regarded as cool. So he’s not adopting straightforwardly cool attributes here.
Related: is he finally talking to a girl a little cooler than him meaning her specifically or is this the first time he’s talking to any girl who is a little cooler than him? Is this an odd statistical fluke that he has never spoken to a girl with that precise relative coolness? Presumably he only speaks to much cooler or less cool girls? The latter does seem a bit rude to all the other girls he has spoken to ever.
Or, if he is far, far less cool and is under stating her coolness in the song as “a little” then is it that he has never spoken to a very, very cool girl before? And he is very uncool? Because if so I need a spoonful of his confidence. He’s talking to her, he’s finding out various things about her, he’s singing a whole song about her.
Which I think makes him pretty cool really. Is coolness in the eye of the beholder?