Wednesday, July 06, 2005

A Continued Effort to Understand Pop Culture


So I'm driving home from work and I'm switching out my DJ Elliott cd for MDFMK (not KMFDM, but pretty close). I catch a bit of radio in between and hear the beginning of Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl," which I ended up listening to in its entirety by choice.

Dang! That song is catchy! I'm so embarrassed. And surprised. She says "shit" like 100 times and the radio edit does very little to cover it up. I guess that's what the kids are into these days.

Despite its catchiness and overuse of one of my favorite swear words, the song is not without great flaws. If you listen to the lyrics of the song, she's totally contradicting herself. She's singing about how some girl messed with her shit and she doesn't like it, so she's gonna meet her out by the bleachers and kick her ass. So although she claims that she "ain't no hollerback girl," she is actually the paragon for hollerback girls, as she is singing a song in response to the girl who was messing with her.

She also rips off a line from an M.I.A. song. Way to holler!



Comments:
I thought I was the only person who analyzed music like this.
when i first heard that song on SNL a few months back i thought it was terrible. but now im starting to appreciate the originality and creatievness of it and can listen to it almost all the way through.
i think she means that she aint a girl to normally get into those situations, that she usually lets stuff alone, but in THIS girls case, she has been SOOOO offended that she HAS to someting to save cred. SHe HAS to throw down. I feel her.
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