As you said, "by today's standards she's not bad". But when you consider she's only 12 and has been writing her own lyrics, with no guidance from a school music teacher or anyone, for less than two years, some of her songs are actually pretty deep.
"I don't know my name / I don't play by the rules of the game"
She's saying "I'm a kid, a tween, on the verge of becoming a teenager, and I have no idea of who I am, what my self-identity is" / "I don't feel like I fit into social norms, I'm not what people expect me to be."
The lines about her sister's friend and getting along "quite nicely", she is envious because she hasn't built any of these "normal" relationships with anyone. And then the friend asked why she cut her hair, this shows that outsiders have noticed her struggles (and maybe her family hadn't) as she's "trying to find my way", as the last line in the song.
When you sit down and analyze it, it's really a pretty self-aware lyric, especially for a "kid". I think she's a lot more mature that anyone gave her credit for.
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