Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I was listening to Pearl Jam on the way home from work, and it really proved drove home the point I was making the other day about crappy lyrics in popular songs.
Here's a contrast.
Nelly
"Pimp Juice"
"Pimp juice - oooohoooooohhooooooooooohhh
I think I need to let her loose (might think I need to let her loose)
Let her loose, let her loooooose
She only want me for my pimp juice (that's all she want me for f'real)
Not my pimp juice, I'm talkin her pimp juice
I think I need to cut her loose (it's time for homegirl to recognize)
Yes I do, yes I doooooo-hoooo
Now I'm - clean as a whistle (yeah) sharp as a razor (uh-huh)
In anythang from Timberland to Gaines
Now listen - I play the haters (ooh) like they should be played
And uhh - I love the ladies (ooh) like they should get laid
That's why I - I got my fade everybody had braids
And now they - switch to fades and I'm thinkin 'bout braids
Just an example of hoochieless jackin
If we were hoopin, I'd be yellin "They hackin"
I see you momma, in my Dolce Gabbana
Gucci and Prada baby I gotta lotta
The lucciana ain't a problem for poppa
That's all you want then baby girl I'ma holla
Cause you wanna put your feet on my rug, don'tcha?
You really wanna put your feet on my rug, don'tcha?
You're in a hurry - SLOW DOWN - I don't like how you actin
Treat you like you're from Milwaukee, send you Green Bay Packin"
Pearl Jam
"Black"
"Sheets of empty canvas
Untouched sheets of clay
Lay spread out before me
As her body once did.
Now the air I've tasted and breathed
Has taken a turn...
Oooh, and all I taught her was everything
oooooh, I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands
Shake beneath the clouds
Of what was everything
Oh, the pictures have
All been washed in black
Tattooed everything."
Okay, Nelly, what the fuck is Pimp Juice anyway? Okay, nevermind, don't wanna go there. I bet these ladies only want you for your money, anyway, and so they can be in a your crappy music videos.
Now, Ed...you can feel his pain. You know that he was in love with a girl, and she absolutely destroyed him, so much that at the point he wrote the song his entire past was shrouded in pain, everything he is, everything he was, and everything he WILL BE is now shrouded in a haze of black. That MEANS something.
Highlight of "Pimp Juice:"
I'm in that, seventy-four, Coupe DeVille
With the, power seats, leather, wood on my wheel
One-touch sunroof BUT leave it alone
Hoes see it can't believe it - "It's goin back on it's own"
Highlight of "Black"
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star...
In somebody else's sky but why, why, why
Can't it be mine?"
Alright, if you can't see the difference here, then you're a lost cause to me.
Please, people, demand more from your music!
Chris