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Originally Posted by pscopa9
I just want to try and portray how worthless music on the radio really is.
This song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSU, by Robin Thicke, which
is terrible, quotes the line "I know you want it." throughout the entire song
I just read this article, where rape victims are holding up posters with quotes from their attackers. If you scroll down you can see that of the ones shown, at least 3-4 of them read "I know you want it," or "You know you want it."
http://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/27-s...ple-who-attack
This is a very disturbing article, and that extremely popular song is indirectly promoting rape in a way. This probably isn't news to anyone, but I thought it'd be an interesting thing to look at. |
First of all, songs are good for a number of reasons, and why people like particular songs are their own personal choice.
Personal tastes aside, Robin Thicke is an great songwriter, underwrites so much content, so little obvious credit given to him. If you're going to pull stuff apart based on repetition, you'll find yourself shooting yourself in the foot. Repeatedly. That's what music, rhythm, and sound is... repetition. It's certainly easy to pick apart a song that is repetitive and seems to lack variety, but there's much to be said about conciseness. It's a lot less demeaning than some rapper inarticulately spitting 'bitches, hoes, da club, wigga, fuck, etc'
That you're trying to relate 'I know you want it' between a lyric and a random quote in a recent posting on some site is also in poor taste. The song itself is blatant as to what it's talking about, and there isn't really anything nefarious going on with it. Admittedly its a tone that's only understood by a combination of rhythm, pacing, word choice, subtle cheekiness and reading between the lines, it's not that difficult to understand. Ironically, it's something that pokes at mainstream politically correct beliefs regarding female sexuality, as much as it may seem to 'objectify'.
As for on topic... I don't really care for the posted song; there's nothing really profound about it, it is thought-provoking, but meh. It's an awkward series of run on and disjoint sentences. I don't listen to a lot of R&B in general though.
