The Serenity Prayer

“'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate”

The prayer asks for the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can, and the wisdom to tell them apart. Community readers hear the chorus doing the first of those in pop form: other people's behaviour is not hers to alter, so the useful knowledge is that trying is wasted effort. The song reaches a different answer from the prayer's, since it responds with dancing rather than with calm, but the premise is shared, and it is the premise that makes the chorus a strategy rather than a shrug.