Popular Songs Today
Today’s popular songs in my opinion have both things, they talk about infidelity and about joy and being in love but, they also now have more graphic lyrics and messages involving sex and how a man or woman need it like in the song called “She Wants It”. This song, in the first chorus says “she wants it, I want to give it to her. She know that, it’s right here for her”. This clearly shows how he thinks she want to have sex and he is willing to give her whatever she wants without any compromise. The first verse says “She work it girl, she work the pole, she break it down, she take it low, she fine as hell, she doing her thing out on the floor. Her money she makin’. Look at the way she shakin’. Make you want to touch it, make you want to taste it” Here we notice that he is talking about a hooker and how the way she moves in the pole, her way of dancing, and her looks make him want her in a very shallow, unloving, and interested only in sex way. “She’s so much more than you’re used to, she knows just how to move to seduce you, she gonna do the right thing and touch the right spot, dance in your lap till you’re ready to pop.” Here it shows how easy and bitchy she can get. She is willing to move and seduce and touch him until he is ready to do it with her. In my opinion, this type of song is more likely to be heard today in the radio or to be more popular among teens than a cheesy love song. Today teens, more guys than girls, look for not so formal realtionships just to get what they want from their boyfriend/girlfriend and do not care too much about the emotional aspect of a relationship and/or how much time they have as a couple. I think, music has a lot to do with it. Not only music but tv shows and movies too. Also the way celebrities live their lives has a lot to do with the influence teen have in theirs. For example, that bitchy airhead blond that has two kids, has been marriend two times and one time it did not even lasted a week. Those kind of examples and/or role models young people have today tend to influence their life and they become careless about serious, healthy, true love relationships.
On the other hand, we have true love songs. An example could be “Quit Your Life” from MXPX. The lyrics say “I’ve been everywhere around the world and finally here tonight. You seem to be the only one to make me feel alright. I feel good when I know you’re coming down, I feel good when I know you’ll be around.” Here we notice how truly this boy loves this girl. He expresses how cool it is just to hang out with her not mentioning other stuff, just the fact that they’re together makes him feel really good. The chorus says “so quit yout life and stay with me, we will order in and watch tv, we will paint the house we will wash the car, we will take a walk but not to far, so quit your life and stay with me” Again, this chorus talks about how a great time they have together watching tv and doing random stuff the two of them. They do not act in superficial ways or try to get away with something else other than to be together. I guess this kind of relationship is the one that most or every girl wants. We want a guy who is always there for us and a guy we can have fun with, not one that will be all over us and try to get something he would probably not get. We girls like to live life like in the movies, we want everything to be perfect and lovely and cute. So I guess this type of song is more likely to be heard by a girl than by a boy, although we have exeptions in boys like my boyfriend who is the coolest guy ever. In fact I named this song because he once sang it to me and was very cute. I guess only truly in love boys, who are not looking for nothing else than to be loved in return, like this songs.
So, I guess we have different types of songs consernign to relationships. We have the naughty ones, which are very superficial and uncaring, and the cool ones, which talk about the joy of true love. In my opinion, we have the same amount of songs concerning to realtionships in a good way than in a bay way, it all depends in which type of songs we like the best.
