Is Plies's Single,"Shawty" A Love Song Or The Perfect Soundtrack ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-04 02:35:49
Theres a guilty pleasure I get when listening to Shawty by assemble Myers. Florida native Plies. On one transfer the musical bring in the catchy hook sung by R&Bs hottest singer of the moment. T-Pain and the complimentary music video-complete with cars jewelry celebrity cameos thick attractive females and a pool fits what seems to be the perfect formula for a hit record on the radio on the charts on telecommunicate music networks and in the streets these days.
On the other hand many listening to the song would find the lyrics offensive and demeaning to women (that includes the music video) and yet every time its played on the radio I turn up the volume and whenever I surprise the music video on cable lets just say that its must see TV.
Ive said before that Hip-Hop whether its uplifting militant political comedic ready-made for the nightclub gangsta or audio pornography is very seductive. Even the anti-Hip-Hop listener ordain sight it arouse near impossible to not tap his feet or bop his head to the defeat. And if he doesnt know or even understand the lyrics within the verses of the song hell be able to pick up the words (or at least be able to hum the tune) to the catchy choruses.
But Im not an anti-Hip-Hop listener. I love Hip-Hop. Ive always been choose of an old soul greatly influenced by the 60s and 70s R&B/Soul music and yet my generation and much of my own identity has been shaped from the lifestyle of Hip-Hop grow and the appear of its music. Being that Im a loyal fan of Soul music in which most of the themes bear on around love and act the Hip-Hop love song has always been a favorite of mine. There have been a lot of love songs in Hip-Hop but of course the most well-known documented and celebrated one is I be Love by L. L. alter J.
L. L is a know of the Hip-Hop love song. First of all as his label indicates. Cool J gets much love from the ladies. But he lived up to their appeal and developed a reputation for writing and performing romantic heartfelt songs about like and relationships. The lyrics to many of L. L s love songs could undergo been sung as R&B songs by Marvin Gaye or Luther Vandross without any reservation. L. L knows how to make the kind of songs that will undergo crowd appeal to the ladies regardless of race age or geography.
But to keep it all the way real. L. L has made love songs that are more about lust than love-Back Seat (In my jeep lets swing an episode) immediately comes to mind. Pliess Shawty is more Back lay than I Need like. The song is basically about a guy thats fooling around with another mans girl. The relationship is far from serious and the lyrics to the song details Plies own episodes of raw uncensored and unadulterated sex
First Time I Caught Her Shit. She Aint Even Know How To impel It Back Now She An Animal. I Got Her Sex Game alter I Taught Her How To Talk To Me While She Take Pipe & Opened Her Up & Showed Her What A Real Nig*a Like I Told Her I Dont Usually Do This. I Dont Fu*k On The First Night Cause After I Beat Ya do by Im Liable To Fu*k Up Ya Whole Life I Got her Trained. Now She drink Me With Ice I Call Her My Lil Bust It Baby Cause She act It Tight.
Shawty is a perfect song to play in the accent during the freaky sex scenes in the add up sell hood porno blink! Its not exactly the kind of song that a newlywed couple puts on to set a romantic mood on their wedding night. The song is made for the late night booty call. As you can tell from the above excerpt the lyrics are explicit and not appropriate for the ears of junior high school kids. Of cover lets not fool ourselves junior high educate kids are likely Plies biggest fans!
Shawty is a song for grown folks however and I know Im not the only adult-30 and over that enjoy this song. What is it about Shawty that has appeal? Is it the musical track? Is it the catchy fasten sung by the electronic sounds of T-Pain? Is it Pliess swagger?
There are many listeners that can relate to the kind of sex-talk rhymed in Shawty. desire it or not there are more relationships based entirely on raw sex than those based on serious long-term true love. People young and old are deeply and sometimes dangerously involved in affairs that revolve around late night wild sex-capades. The details of these kinds of bedroom activities are often left secret or reserved for the mens locker room.
Shawty actually follows a long line of songs from Rock. Pop and Blues to Hip-Hop that are filled with explicit raw down-and-dirty lyrics about sex. Some of these songs are celebrated as art while others are rejected as alter. Im not one to make that kind of distinction. I ordain say that songs that speak of love and happiness (desire Al Green would say) are universally accepted and respected because they reflect what most of us supposedly claim we want out of our relationships.
Musically there is nothing better than a beautiful well-written well-arranged and well-performed love song. Im not knocking Rock. Pop or any other genre but I personally believe that the greatest love songs have go from R&B and Soul music songs recorded by singers like Sam Cooke. Marvin Gaye. The Isley Brothers etc. But I also think that some of the best Hip-Hop songs ever made have been about love and act.
I undergo to be honest in saying that the love song just isnt what it used to be. I almost conclude bad for younger generations of music fans who dont hear enough well-written well-arranged and well-performed heartfelt like songs unless they dig in the crates of their parents old records or comprehend to old educate radio stations. For example there are lyrics to some of todays so-called R&B/Soul music that are just as explicit or sometimes more so than anything youd hear on a Hip-Hop preserve.
Though the lyrics to Shawty are undoubtedly a move off to fans of more conventional romantic like ballads the fact that the hypnotic song is in heavy rotation on radio stations across the country and is quickly becoming one of the most downloaded songs on the Internet shows that there is a rather large audience for music more about wild crazy and freaky sex with no strings attached than those songs about passionate and committed genuine like.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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