Monday, June 2, 2008

Some Songs Do Not Make Any Sense.

CASE IN POINT:

JORDIN SPARKS AND CHRIS BROWN COMPLAIN THAT NOT BEING WITH EACH OTHER IS LIKE BEING IN A WORLD WITH NO AIR. BUT USUALLY WHEN YOU ARE "SUFFOCATING" IT IS BECAUSE SOMEONE WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ALONE. ALSO, WHEN SOMEONE TAKES YOUR BREATH AWAY, IT IS BECAUSE YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO THEM. NOT BECAUSE YOU ARE HEARTBROKEN THAT THEY ARE NOT THERE. IN FACT, IF THEY ARE NOT THERE, YOU SHOULD HAVE MORE AIR THAN YOU DID WHEN THEY WERE THERE, THOUGH FUNCTIONALLY THERE WILL BE NO DISCERNIBLE DIFFERENCE. WHAT THEY ARE REALLY DESCRIBING IS LOVESICKNESS WHICH AS WE ALL KNOW FEELS LIKE NOT HAVING AIR ONLY IN THE SENSE OF BEING PUNCHED IN THE STOMACH. THIS METAPHORICAL USAGE OF "NO AIR" DOES NOT MAKE AN APPEARANCE IN THE SONG. THERE IS ONE MENTION OF DROWNING, BUT OTHER THAN THAT IT IS CONFUSING, NO AIR HOW ABOUT NO SENSE!

CASE IN POINT x2:

WILEY NOTICES THAT A GIRL HE DOES NOT EVEN KNOW YET IS WEARING [HIS] ROLEX. HE NOTICES HER "EVIL EYE," LEADING US TO BELIEVE THAT THIS WOMAN IS MERELY ATTRACTED TO HIS WEALTH AND POSSIBLY FAME. SHE KNOWS HIS CELL PHONE NUMBER EVEN THOUGH HE SUGGESTS THAT SHE SHOULD NOT KNOW IT AS OF YET -- A HA, THE CELL PHONE WAS MISSING ONLY A MOMENT EARLIER! BUT THIS BRINGS UP A PERPLEXING POINT: IS HIS CELL PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE IN HIS CELL PHONE? THIS SEEMS LIKE AN UNSAFE PRACTICE FOR JUST THIS REASON. SIMILARLY, YOU SHOULD NOT CARRY YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD WITH YOU UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY BECAUSE IF STOLEN IT CONTAINS (1) YOUR NAME AND (2) YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. THIS MAKES YOU A PRIME CANDIDATE FOR IDENTITY THEFT. MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHY HAS WILEY GIVEN HER HIS ROLEX SO WILLINGLY? HE HAS ALREADY MENTIONED THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW HER WELL. AND YET HE EITHER (1) HAS NO PROBLEM GIVING HER HIS ROLEX OR (2) HAS HAD HIS ROLEX, LIKE HIS CELL PHONE, STOLEN FROM HIM AND NOW FOR SOME REASON REFUSES TO ASK FOR IT BACK AS HE RIGHTFULLY SHOULD. VERY PERPLEXING!


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