Tuesday 28 April 2009

Caution: sexually explicit lyrics (remove children from the vicinity of this post)



Oh, he treats me with respect, He says he loves me all the time,
He calls me 15 times a day, He likes to make sure that im fine,
You know I've never met a man, Whose made me feel quite so secure,
He's not like all them other boys, They're all so dumb and immature.

There's just one thing, That's getting in the way,
When we go up to bed your just no good,
its such a shame!
I look into your eyes, I want to get to know you,
And then you make this noise, and its apparently its all over

Its not fair, And i think your really mean,
I think your really mean, I think your really mean.

Oh your supposed to care, But you never make me scream, You never make me scream,

Oh it's not fair, And it's really not ok, It's really not ok, It's really not ok,

Oh your supposed to care, But all you do is take, Yeah, all you do is take.

I lay here in this wet patch in the middle of the bed,
i'm feeling pretty damn hard done by i spent ages giving head.

Then i remember all the nice things that you've ever said to me,
maybe i'm just over reacting maybe your the one for me.

There's just one thing, That's getting in the way,
When we go up to bed your just no good,
its such a shame!
I look into your eyes, I want to get to know you,
And then you make this noise, and its apparently its all over

Its not fair, And i think your really mean,
I think your really mean, I think your really mean.

Oh your supposed to care, But you never make me scream, You never make me scream,

Oh it's not fair, And it's really not ok, It's really not ok, It's really not ok,

Oh your supposed to care, But all you do is take, Yeah, all you do is take.

I am finding so many female songwriters writing sexually explicit lyrics, these days (see my earlier post on Lady Gaga). The question (apart from whether women are really sexually liberated these days) is whether these are parallelisms with other things and they do not just talk about sex. So, although this song is clearly a 'spaghetti western ode to the premature', when Lily sings "you're supposed to care, but all you do is take" perhaps she means something more. Perhaps? Perhaps, men who 'never make you scream' are also egotistical idiots?

If this reading is correct, it really takes away all the sexual liberation bit from women and is thus deeply unfeministic. I remember when I saw 'y tu mama tambien' when I realized that this sexually liberated woman was only willing to have a threesome with those guys because she had cancer and was dieing, I became so upset. I mean, can women never be sexually liberated for the hell of it? Does there always need to be some other hidden, deep reason for their liberatedness? I sure hope not...

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