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"It's a lot more fun to play the bitch than it is to play the perfect girl 'cause everybody has a bad side inside of them"

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Moore’s line is a small rebellion wrapped in a casting note: stop asking women to be agreeable scenery. Coming from a pop musician who came up in the late-’90s/early-2000s purity economy, it reads like a backstage confession about the roles the culture hands young female stars - the “perfect girl” as brand, as fantasy, as product. That character is tidy, frictionless, and, crucially, boring to perform because it demands constant self-erasure.

“Play the bitch” isn’t just a provocation; it’s Moore naming the one female archetype that’s allowed to have agency, appetite, and edges. The word is loaded because it’s policed: men can be “difficult,” women get “bitchy.” By claiming it as “fun,” she flips the insult into a permission slip. The fun is in complexity - sarcasm, anger, selfishness, mess - the stuff that makes a character (or a public persona) feel alive instead of curated.

The second half, “everybody has a bad side inside of them,” widens the frame from celebrity to audience. It’s a knowing nudge at the hypocrisy of demanding spotless femininity while consuming narratives built on conflict. Pop culture loves “relatable,” but it often only tolerates relatability in safe, Instagrammable doses. Moore’s subtext: we’re all darker and weirder than we admit, so why pretend women can’t be?

It’s also a craft statement. Performing “perfect” is maintenance; performing the “bitch” is acting. In that gap, she’s asking for the right to be human onstage and off.

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Moore, Mandy. (2026, January 16). It's a lot more fun to play the bitch than it is to play the perfect girl 'cause everybody has a bad side inside of them. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-a-lot-more-fun-to-play-the-bitch-than-it-is-100151/

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Moore, Mandy. "It's a lot more fun to play the bitch than it is to play the perfect girl 'cause everybody has a bad side inside of them." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-a-lot-more-fun-to-play-the-bitch-than-it-is-100151/.

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"It's a lot more fun to play the bitch than it is to play the perfect girl 'cause everybody has a bad side inside of them." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-a-lot-more-fun-to-play-the-bitch-than-it-is-100151/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

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Mandy Moore (born April 10, 1984) is a Musician from USA.

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