Hi, dudes! Sorry I haven't posted in so long (Umm, over a year? Oops!). I've been super busy making a baby and then keeping said baby alive and not crying. Also, I personally find it really hard to think of blog posts when all I've done all day is stare at the kid. But, you guys, I've had something on my mind for a while now and I need to discuss it with y'alls. You see, I've been listening to a lot of R&B for the last few months. This is related to motherhood in the sense that I no longer get paid for my work and that makes it difficult to listen to rap music, as rappers talk about getting money A LOT. Some of them actually never talk about anything else (I'm looking at you, Baby the Birdman). R&B artists address cashflow issues significantly less, but they use the same producers so there are a lot of sonic similarities. I should be happy. But as I listen to these songs, something keeps bugging me oh so much, which is that these R&B peeps are always making INSANE sexual promises that no one could ever, ever keep. Let's take a closer look:
1. Robin Thicke
Robin Thicke (son of Alan Thicke) actually isn't too overpromisey. I mean, he totally is for a normal human being, but in the world of R&B his hyperbole is pretty average.
Now, in case you didn't catch all the lyrics, Rob here just promised to solve ALL OF YOUR PROBLEMS with his penis. We will accept that as our median for the purposes of this post, and that level of overpromising pales in comparison to our next offender. That's right, dudes, I'm talking about the King of Sexual Overpromise,
2. R. Kelly
Hoo, boy. You're gonna want to hold onto your hat for this one.
To recap: Kells is proposing an entire 24 hours of sex. There will be a round TEN, after which he will get a second wind, resulting in more sex, which is going to make you yodel. Not, as I would think, give you all kindsa chafe, but yodel. Oh, and he probably got you fired.
But that's not unusual for R. Kelly, a man who has sung of sex that takes place in outer space, for Pete's sake. I know better than to take him even remotely seriously. The thing that makes this so bothersome to me, so egregious, is that what we know of R. Kelly's actual sex life tells us that not only is he NOT going to make you yodel, but he's probably going to put on a Zorro mask and pee on you. It's like if I told you to come over to my house to watch the secret 6th season of The Wire and eat free pizza FROM THE FUTURE, and then when you got there, I put on a Zorro mask and peed on you.
3. Ciara
CIARA IS GOING TO DAGGER YOU.
4. The-Dream
Now that is more like it! For those of you not familiar with the vernacular, to "put it down" is to do a pretty good job. Way to keep expectations somewhere reasonable, The-Dream! The craziest promise here is that he'll make you sleepy. Sounds great! I hereby name you my boyfriend for the duration of this blog post!*
Well, that was fun! I'll try to be here more often, but no promises. I seriously don't understand how those Mommy Blogger people do it.
*Actually, who am I kidding, I totally pick Robin Thicke. I have an inexplicable weakness for white dudes with gross facial hair. See also KFed and my husband when we first met.
8 comments:
Not only am I thrilled that you're back, Who Did What to Who, but I absolutely love that you tagged your post as "awesome." I couldn't agree more.
But if you take the lyrics to "Put It Down" at face value, he's promising sex so good and/or lengthy it'll send you to a burn ward.
I spent five minutes weighing that Wire scenario. Pros: No serial killer plot, no one-dimensional villains at the Baltimore Sun, pizza from the future. Cons: No Lester or McNulty, pee.
Can you guarantee that the pee and the pizza stay separate? I think that's the only way I can decide.
I think we can safely say that Freamon and McNulty are for sure in the secret 6th season. Like when Herc left the force; he was still around. But in the pee scenario, you don't get any pizza, period. just pee. It's awful.
This is like how if Jadakiss actually killed all the people he talks about killing in his songs, he's be Hitler.
I once attempted to make a unified list of every ridiculous thing said on Jodeci's masterpiece "The Show, The Afterparty, The Hotel" (aka the Sgt. Pepper's of R&B*), but as with all things Jodeci, all roads lead to madness. I mean, they wrote a love song about smoking crack! Who does that?
Also: That Ciara video makes me feel like a monkey. Whenever I watch I get the urge to masturbate and/or fling poo at the screen.
*Except the Beatles never sexually assaulted anybody at gunpoint...that we know of)
Nice post! Where do you get all those ideas to create such interesting and intriguing posts?))
R&B is my fav. Thanks for adding these videos. Found some new songs for my playlist.
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We all are indeed very happy to see you back. Furthermore, we loved your recent posts as well. Good job!
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In R&B, no one can beat Robin Thicke’s sounds. He is in a league of his own.
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