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Hey, so, instant opinion required: I'm making a mix cd for my little sister who just turned fourteen. The title of the mix is "Everybody Has To Have A Fourteenth Birthday" and so far it features such highlights as Ani Difranco "Untouchable Face" (fuck you, for existing in the first place/and who am I, that I should be vying for your touch?), Garbage's "Bad Boyfriend" (self-explanatory!) Rilo Kiley "A Better Son/Daughter" (and sometimes when you're on you're really fucking on / and your friends sing along and they love you / but the lows are so extreme that the good seems fucking cheap) Rob Zombie "Living Dead Girl" and, well, you get the picture. (There are also a whole bunch of songs that don't say fuck! I swear. KT Tunstall and Corinne Bailey Ray! Seriously.) I did resist putting on Poe "Not a Virgin" because, um, I do have some standards as to what I'm going to give to my little sister, right.

So my question is: I'm looking at the Dresden Dolls and I'm torn between "Bad Habit" and "Sing." I would go with "Sing", which I prefer, except "Bad Habit" is so much a 14yo song. But tell me, is it wrong to give your little sister a mix cd with a song about cutting on it? :-/ I JUST DON'T KNOW.

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It really depends on whether or not your sister is the sort to cut because a song inspired her to do so. I'm going to assume she's not...

well, you know, I highly doubt it, but I never know with Freya and she did just turn 14. :P

in this day and age everything can act as a trigger, or inspire you to change your ways.
a song can be powerful, but i don't think a SONG is enough to push her over the edge and cut herself.
so no.. it's not wrong or a bad thing. i would have appreciated someone giving me songs, music or info of any kind when i was going through it. i seriously thought i was going mad, or was fucked in the head. this was of course, before it became "fashionable". having said that, it's a great thing that there is more awareness so the signs can be spotted quicker and help given.

alright, enough of rant.