When I created this blog, I was trying to move away from the silliness that was my former blog and be a little more sophisticated, hence the moody profile picture etc. But I can't get away from it, I'm a silly person, so maybe I'll just turn this thing green and call it baconandbananas again and go back to being, silly.
The silly thing I'm thinking at the moment is why are today's pop songs so terribly lyrically impoverished? And rude! They are so rude. I mean, I heard that Enrique Inglesias had a new album so I looked it up on myspace and in one of the songs he says something like 'excuse me if you think I'm being rude, but tonight I'm fucking you'. This is what he says, over and over. I mean, am I being a prude here? Or is that just totally wrong and disgusting? It's like this fruity pop song and then THOSE are the lyrics? Kids are going to be bopping around to this and you know that urge when you want to sing along to the chorus of something... Well, I just don't know what to say. Granted when I was young we used to listen to Nirvana and liked the song 'Rape me'. But, and this could just be my personal bias, I feel like that at least had some depth and poignancy to it.
Maybe I'm just getting old. The problem is, I still like dancing around my house in the mornings to nice upbeat music, and lately I've been turning on the radio rather than choosing a CD, but I really have to suppress my disgust while I'm dancing around because I just find some of the music just so appalling. I like the stuff that is inspired by soul music, like Christina Aguilera and Duffy etc, and I'm fond of Cee Lo Green and even love the song 'Fuck you'. Does that contradict my initial argument here? Why is it that I think that is ok and the Enrique one is not? Maybe it has to do with power and respect. In the Cee Lo song he's apparently expressing his attitude towards a girl who won't give him the time of day. It's pretty benign. On the other hand the Enrique song gives the impression of treating women as playthings, so maybe that's why I'm offended by it.
In any case, this is what can happen if you have rude lyrics to upbeat pop songs:
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