2011-02-11, 04:21 PM
Bribery Wrote:I guess that's a good way to put it. I'm still looking forward to the album, but I wish she didn't hype the single as much as she did because that only lead to disappointment. Speaking of Firework, that's another reason I'm not really liking Born This Way. There have been so many "love yourself" songs lately: We R Who We R, Just the Way You Are, Firework, Raise Your Glass, F**kin Perfect etc. It's such a played-out theme.
PS - What's a "Subway Kid"? :f6:
I mean, technically Xtina did it first with "Beautiful." Honestly, I don't think it's a played out theme at all. You know what I think is? Watching big-assed black girls drop to the flo in the club while the DJ spins that pomegranate. Any combination of words in the previous sentence. Not only do tracks like those outnumber "love yourself" tracks 100:1, but they have so much less meaning for people that they're boring.
And just to argue the point further, I'll reiterate what my creative writing professor told us on the first day of class: "There are a select few topics that are written about extensively throughout history, and it's not the topics themselves that make a story/poem boring, but how the author/poet chooses to convey them." A perfect example of this would be love, in general. How many books/poems/movies/songs/works of art in general out there deal with the subject of love in any of its many forms? Too many to count. Yet people keep making them, and people keep loving them. It's all about how the artist chooses to approach a subject, and is why I like a lot of the songs you listed above.
For example, I love how in Raise Your Glass P!nk creates the oh-so-common embarrassing moment for many of us when we start singing a song lyric we don't know 100%, and we sing it to early, and awkwardly stop right away. In Born This Way, Gaga explicitly calls out to the LGBT and multiracial communities. And all of the other songs describe self-empowerment through different angles: Firework uses, obviously, a firework metaphor for your inner passion to stand up for yourself, Just The Way You Are and F**kin Perfect use words of affirmation from a loved one, and We R Who We R refers to everyone as young superstars that should just party and have fun together running a town just like a club...okay, Ke$ha's not exactly the most profound with her lyrics, but (and this is in defense of a lot of the shallow party tracks I made fun of earlier) every now and then a song that revolves around simply celebrating yourself by partying isn't a bad thing.
And @ "Subway kid": I'm thinking she's just referring to people who hide their true selves ("bury their true selves underground like subways"). Original title if that's the case.