Round round round round....

Sorry but I am going to get back to my criticism of not-so-good music. When these things come to me I can't deny to write about them. Yesterday, my Canadian friend Jason pointed out to me that one of the songs of Flo Rida (the singer of Low) is "covering" a very famous song from the eighties called You Spin me Round (Like a Record), played by the british new wave band Dead or Alive. However, he is not the only one who has covered the song: Dope (an American Nu Metal band), Thalia (a Mexican Latin-pop singer), Jessica Simpson (an American singer) and Indochine ( a French band) have done it too. Well, Right Round (that's how Flo Rida's cover is called) isn't really a cover, because the lyrics aren't them same. Flo Rida is just using the chorus of the original and his reasons seem to me a good discussion.

On the one hand, it could be that Flo Rida is an admirer of You Spin me Round and he wanted to make a version of the original with his own style.

On the other hand, -and I believe that this is the true reason- they used the catchy and already (this word is very important, already) famous chorus because if in its time the song was popular, probably the verse would have the same effect now because we, the youth of nowadays, haven't changed that much on being great music followers compared to the youth of the eighties. And at the same time some people may recognise the old song. What's more, if foreign artists covered the song, it means that the song became famous abroad. So it looks like good song to take advantage of, isn't it?

Well, what I just said is not new, because when an artists covers a song is due to the former reason, but also to the latter. They take advantage of the fact that the song is already known and if they do a good cover the hit is ensured. But in this case it seems to me that they wanted to make money more than covering an old hit. In case you don't know or you forgot, I repeat you that Flo Rida's music style is the one that I described as "music made to make money and made for the youth to dance in clubs", along with the sexist message that this song (of course!) doesn't lack. Because, once again, he is talking about a girl as if she was a prostitute. Well, maybe she is, but that doesn't allow him to speak like that to her. It's funny how the lyrics' theme is similar to the Low's one.

Flo Rida talks again about girls, clubs, being the man, dough, that girl "Shawty" and some verses have again "hidden" sex messages. The most funny and unoriginal is that some verses say almost the same in both Low and Right Round...

Right Round => 

"Shawty must know i'm the man"

"I got rubber bands"

"She got me throwin my money a[round]"

"That body belong on a poster"

Low =>  

"I'm the man, I'll bend the rubber bands"

"this crazy all night spendin my dough"

"Like a pornography poster"

It looks like he was running out of ideas... the only difference I see is that in Low, the girl was going low, and in Righ Round the girl is going... down!

"Shawty got low low low low low low low low"

"It’s goin down down"

Oh, I can forget to point out the super great poethic rymes that Flo Rida sings in Righ Round that prove the originality and musical quality of his stupendous songs ( i hope you got that i'm being sarcastic!). On the first place we have a verse with the following rhyme: 

[...] going
[...] clothes
[...] role
[...] whoa

Don't you think "whoa" is very fine figure of speech to complete your verse when you don't know how to rhyme?

Then we have another good rhyme:

[...] [down]
[...] a[round]

[...] to be [found]
[...] down down.
[...] go [down]
[...] money [around]
[...] to be [found]

And I think you had enough and got the idea. You can check the lyrics at the link below if you wish to continue.

You Spin me Round

Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo

YouTube: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/theweddingsingervol2/youspinmearoundlikearecord.htm

Right Round:

Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yq8v9YtXCQ 

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsreg.com/lyrics/flo+rida/RIGHT+ROUND/

Today I am not going to speak badly of any lyrics, today I would like to talk about a very emotional song called Too close for comfort, played and written by Mcfly. Mcfly is a pop rock band that I like because their style is different from other pop bands, at least that's what I think, but it has been called "new pop", and sometimes they have been compared to The Beatles. Mcfly found fame in 2004, and they are from London, United Kingdom. That makes a change because so far I have only talk about North American artists.

Too close for comfort is on their second album, Wonderland, realised on 2005. The lyrics talk about a relationship that is over, because the writter apparently made mistakes and hurt the other person. But he is saying he's sorry about it. But this other person is leaving the writter, no matter how sorry the writter is, and seems like there is nothing to do.

"I never meant the things I said

To make you cry can I say I'm sorry
It's hard to forget and yes I regret
All these mistakes

I don't know why you're leaving me
But I know you must have your reasons
There's tears in your eyes I watch as you cry
But it's getting late"

The next verse is the chorus, in which the writter asks his lover if he was inviding her (or his, we don't know, so let's suppose it is a heterosexual couple) privacy, or if there was something that he was about to discover. I don't really understand the meaning of this verse, but I think that he is sad that when he was driving her home he got too close to her and she felt in discomfort. (?) I am not sure if the writter meant to say that tough...

"Was I invading in on your secrets?
Was I too close for comfort?
You're pushing me out
When I wanted in
What was I just about to discover?
I got too close for comfort
driving you home
Guess I'll never know"

And then the song follows like this:

All this time you've been telling me lies
Hidden in bags that are under your eyes
And when I asked you I knew I was right

I don't know if this is said by the girl, or if the writter was hurt too...

So as you can see, sometimes lyrics aren't very clear to the person who listens to the song (and much more if the song is in English and English is not your mother tongue...). The only thing we can do is to interpret the message as we think it could be or what the writter could be thinking in the moment he wrote the song. Or we can simply interpret it with our own situation, background and problems, as I often do.

What is true is that relationships are very complicated, so are songs about love and relationships that are over. Each couple has a different story and if you write a song about yours maybe it won't be understood by someone else.

Well, leaving that far behind, this is a good song that I recommend to listen to if you like love songs( especially if you feel blue, or maybe not... you will cry) because this one is very emotional, as I said before, and the music is slow and nice but at the same time has some rock guitars.


Lyrics and song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATk30xzAsRw

Riverside

After some days of partying with friends and celebrating the end of the year and the arrival of 2010, I have heard many songs. Most of them with the only purpose of making people dance, with light not very good lyrics. You already know how critic I am with bad lyrics and this one takes the cake...

The name of the song is Riverside, and the "singer" (and maybe DJ, I haven't found out) is Sidney Samson. As I said before, the purpose of this song is being played in clubs, making people dance and of course selling the song in a CD or in a greatest hits CD. The lyrics don't really matter as long as the music is catchy and rythmic, that is what really matters in dance, techno, house music and all those styles that are usually played in clubs. But, seriously, this one is very dumb... The lyrics go like this:

Riverside motherf*cker

And that's the only thing the lyrics say in the whole song, which is 3'27". This verse is reapeted in some parts along the song and sometimes they only say riverside or river. It is not only that the lyrics are repetitive but also that the verse is nonsense and it doesn't say anything. Because... what's the meaning of Riverside motherf*cker? Did the DJ actually mean to say anything at all? Or was he only completing the mix?

And why is he insulting someone gratuitously? It seems to me that lyrics with lots of swearing and no message at all are composed by someone who really didn't care about them and just wanted to complete his song and to make money. As in the song Low, which I have already talked about before.

I confess I have danced this song and I admit that it has got rythm, but I have to say that I wouldn't listen to it in my day-to-day and that it is not a great composition. Anyway, I'm not a big fan of music played in clubs.

So, given that you can't avoid this song when you go clubbing and you are in the mood to dance, at least don't listen to it at home! Remember that you are cleverer than the people who make money with nonsense lyrics in catchy songs.

They even made a video clip!!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V775PPuBc7Y