Discussing The Phrase 'Treehouse Homes And The Word Butter'

This phrase is a pun, and one that I did not immediately notice when listening to the song. The phrase “out of student loans and tree house homes, we all would take the latter” is a pun because it plays on the relationship between the phrase “treehouse homes” and the word “latter”. A tradition treehouse is set up into a tree, which means something is required to climb up into the treehouse. This “something” is commonly a ladder. The pun in this phrase comes from using the word “latter” alongside the phrase “treehouse homes”, because the statement is using a word similar to “ladder”, which is what would be required to enter the treehouse. Therefore, the word “latter”, which is exceedingly similar sounding to “ladder”, has a double meaning