Couple of music related thoughts:

First off, the Black Eyed Peas' new song, "My Humps". This is such a stupid song, about on par with Sir Mix-a-lot's "Baby Got Back". Basically it comes down to the often repeated terms of "my hump" and "my lovely little/lady lumps".

I can't imagine why any woman would want to use the term "lump" when describing her own body. It just feels like it doesn't have any positive inflection whatsoever. I mean, lumpy gravy is something you try to avoid. A lumpy matress is old and uncomfortable. To take one's lumps means you're being beaten severely. Even checking for lumps, as in a self-breast exam, is checking for cancer, which, last I checked, is generally considered a bad thing. A lump is some kind of deformity; some mound of something that shouldn't be there. Seems like hardly the term to use to describe one's own breasts in a positive manner. Breasts (and the female body on the whole) should be praised and respected with beautiful words!


Also, Nickelback's "Photograph". For one thing, it's already getting dangerously close to burnout status, which is a shame because I like this song, and Nickelback in general. (But then, that's the "problem" (if you can call it that) with Nickelback - they're so mass-appeal that their stuff gets a lot of airplay on a lot of stations.) But anyway...I was kinda singing along, and got to the second...verse? Stanza? I'm not sure of the exact term...right after the first chorus. I started with "We used to listen to the radio...", but they played "This was the old arcade..." I knew that verse went there, but I had gotten so used to the shorter radio edits, that I had forgotten about it. It didn't surprise me...I mean, I figured it was the longer version - they've done it with other Nickelback songs. But now that I think about it, I'm trying to remember if they still cut out other portions of the song...I remember thinking, "Just how many different radio edits does one song need?" And, as fas as I can tell, the song doesn't need a radio edit to begin with...except perhaps for length. I mean, they cut out the arcade verse, and the first half of the bridge section, but they don't really need to...do they?
posted by Tim at 12:55 AM