Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Flying like a dragon g6
I'm really lazy about charging my Ipod (plus I like to be in on what the kids are listening to), so I often find myself tuning in (like, literally) to the radio on assorted car voyages. I love Delilah, and how I'm pretty sure we live on different planets--mine has dragons, hers a steady stream of Kenny G. I love 24/7 Christmas music. I love, for example, the angst of today's decision between TLC's Waterfalls and Ja-Rule's Holla Holla. I love that there seems to be a series of five songs on pop stations that are played with an overwhelming frequency; fast forward to a month later, and these songs are never played again. Most of all, I find myself trying to riddle out lyrics. I'm often confused by pop songs, as the lyrical trickery and ambiguity often seem beyond the scope of my intellect.
See, for example, Bruno Mars. I believe the song is named Grenade. He means an actual explosive device, not the Jersey Shore term for an ugly fat girl. The gist of the song is that he would do anything for this girl, even though he realizes that she is terrible and won't do anything for him. He would catch a grenade for her. He would throw his hand on a blade for her. He would jump in front of a train for her. I don't know. It just seems like he is asking to be in the next Saw movie.
See also Katy Perry's Firework, in which a person (you) becomes a metaphor for a firework. You are supposed to show them what you are worth. You are supposed to let your colors burst. So far, I get it. You're supposed to shoot across the sky. Wait...what? Unless you are a dragon, I just don't understand.
The song that currently most puzzles me, however, is Far East Movement's G6. When I first heard the song, all I could riddle out was that people were getting drunk on cold beverages. I assumed that I just wasn't hip, until my little sister, who just knows these things (usually) also expressed her confusion. We spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out just the chorus, and we didn't get much of anywhere, though we gave it a pretty valiant effort. I'm hoping that Amber Nelson, as a poet in the know, could help me through some of these lyrics.
Here is the chorus:
Poppin bottles in the ice, like a blizzard
When we drink we do it right gettin slizzard
Sippin sizzurp in my ride, like Three 6
Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6
Like a G6, Like a G6
Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6
Okay. Here is where I'm at. So I'm assuming they are opening bottles on ice. I get that blizzards are cold, and I guess that are of that bottle opening that would almost be blizzard-like (in the sweaty club). I'm assuming that when they drink they do it right getting slizzard means that when you drink you should get really drunk aka slizzard (sort of like a drunk lizard, perhaps). I don't know what sizzurp is (alcoholic syrup?) or how they manage to drink it in their rides. I had no idea what Three 6 means until my sister told me that it was a reference to Three 6 mafia, who you might remember from their Oscar win for "It's Hard Out There for a Pimp" from Hustle and Flow. Then there is the feelingof being so fly like a g6. I thought I had this one--a g6 is a plane, no? BUT WAIT, it's not! So what does it all MEAN? I need help!
See, for example, Bruno Mars. I believe the song is named Grenade. He means an actual explosive device, not the Jersey Shore term for an ugly fat girl. The gist of the song is that he would do anything for this girl, even though he realizes that she is terrible and won't do anything for him. He would catch a grenade for her. He would throw his hand on a blade for her. He would jump in front of a train for her. I don't know. It just seems like he is asking to be in the next Saw movie.
See also Katy Perry's Firework, in which a person (you) becomes a metaphor for a firework. You are supposed to show them what you are worth. You are supposed to let your colors burst. So far, I get it. You're supposed to shoot across the sky. Wait...what? Unless you are a dragon, I just don't understand.
The song that currently most puzzles me, however, is Far East Movement's G6. When I first heard the song, all I could riddle out was that people were getting drunk on cold beverages. I assumed that I just wasn't hip, until my little sister, who just knows these things (usually) also expressed her confusion. We spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out just the chorus, and we didn't get much of anywhere, though we gave it a pretty valiant effort. I'm hoping that Amber Nelson, as a poet in the know, could help me through some of these lyrics.
Here is the chorus:
Poppin bottles in the ice, like a blizzard
When we drink we do it right gettin slizzard
Sippin sizzurp in my ride, like Three 6
Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6
Like a G6, Like a G6
Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6
Okay. Here is where I'm at. So I'm assuming they are opening bottles on ice. I get that blizzards are cold, and I guess that are of that bottle opening that would almost be blizzard-like (in the sweaty club). I'm assuming that when they drink they do it right getting slizzard means that when you drink you should get really drunk aka slizzard (sort of like a drunk lizard, perhaps). I don't know what sizzurp is (alcoholic syrup?) or how they manage to drink it in their rides. I had no idea what Three 6 means until my sister told me that it was a reference to Three 6 mafia, who you might remember from their Oscar win for "It's Hard Out There for a Pimp" from Hustle and Flow. Then there is the feelingof being so fly like a g6. I thought I had this one--a g6 is a plane, no? BUT WAIT, it's not! So what does it all MEAN? I need help!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
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