O que significam as expressões knock-out e cop-out? (Expressões tiradas da música you need to calm down, de taylor swift)

For those who read my blog, you may have noticed that I tend to get a lot of inspiration from the songs I listen to. Some of them reflect my own taste in music, but some are just trendy music that very easily catches my attention.

Somewhere around June Taylor swift released her single called you need to calm down. Right in the beginning of the song I heard something like: "you say it in the street that's a knock-out but you say it in a tweet that's a cop-out". I thought it'd be a good topic to touch on this time. So let's dive right into it.

A knock-out is a very popular term in boxing referring to the act of hitting the other fighter to the ground in such a way they can't get back up again. If you hit someone with an argument in such a way they can't come up with a comeback that's also like a knock-out, which is more like what the singer meant in the song.

A cop-out on the other hand is way less honorable than a knock-out. It's when you create an excuse to take the way way out of a tricky situation. In the song's context, saying something controversial to someone in a tweet, where you have the comfort of anonymity or the security of being home behind a screen, is not really a knock-out. It's just a cop-out.

That way of interpreting the song is the closest to what the singer might've meant because she's been through a lot of hate on the internet before. So that's all for now guys. Talk to you next time!!!!