Didn't have clinicals on Saturday, so spent weekend at my boyfriend's. Everything is great except I absolutely hate 70% of the music he loves. It really drives me crazy. I try to be polite about it, but I finally broke down and told him to stop subjecting me to his crappy music after he tried to make me listen to Rihanna's "Rude Boy" two times in a row. I hate that song. He was a little shocked. I think I'm the only black woman I know who can't stand R&B. The lyrics are always just so disgusting and usually very misogynist (sp?). The weird thing is that I love rap music, which is like ten times worse. But I guess the difference is that rap music is supposed to be raw and shocking, so the form matches the function. But there's a contradiction in modern R&B, where the content doesn't match its pretense. Rap is supposed to offend, whereas most modern R&B songs set up this sweet little melody and sexy little vibe and yet the men say the most sexist, f-ed up things that are supposed to turn me on, but it makes me want to just punch somebody. Who do they think they're fooling? Not me. It just seems so unartistic because it's an unconscious discrepancy. And the women's lyrics are all about catering to men, and saying things entirely for their benefit, and not for her own.
And I can't believe that people let their little kids listen to this stuff (my BF included). Rihanna sang "Rude Boy" at the Nickelodeon KIDS Choice Awards, wherein she sings "Can you get it up? Are you big enough? Take it. Put it in me." etcetera. Gaw!
/End crazy old man rant. Get off my lawn!
I hear you on the IRS. I am one of those exemption-happy people, too, and it always bites me right in the pocketbook come April. This year is no exception, unfortunately. :(
ReplyDeleteyeap, paid CA taxes today . . . :(
ReplyDeletethose lyrics make the song completely inappropriate for kids, so you're right!!!!!!!
Take 2 (the computer shut down during my last attempt at commenting, but I'll see if I can recreate the epicness. ;) )
ReplyDeleteThat sucks about the IRS. They are like wu-tang clan- "ain't nothin' to f*ck with". Ugh!
I feel you on the music as well. I'm horrified at the music people let (or force) their kids to listen to. I see it as a giant coolness fail. It's one of those attempts to seem young and hip. It may fool the kid for awhile, but at one point I'm sure it becomes embarrassing having a grown man singing and bopping around to MTV b.s. like he's a slutty 13 y.o. school girl. Or maybe I'm just embarrassed for him. But, seriously, what are these people trying to teach their kids?
Care-huh?: Sorry it bit you in the ass : ( But I swear that for me, dude, never again!! I'm really going to try and go hard core this year. Owing the IRS sucks...
ReplyDeleteZ: Thank you!!! Sometimes I really feel like I belong on another planet.
Booga: It's a total coolness fail! I'm not sure if it's him wanting to be cool or just wanting to stick his dick in Rihanna... I think it's more the latter, but a hybrid of both. And I know, sorry, that was so gauche! Just like R & B, ha ha, hypocrisy