My bad. I had not even listened to this song before I posted. I was just going by the lyric. Which, as a songwriter, looks like crap to me.

Now, I heard the song. Yep, that has a sensational beat. That song is all about the beat. And... being teens to 20-something.

I actually do not object to a curse word here and there in a lyric. In my generation, Pusher Man by Steppenwolf was ultra-cool. The thing that bugged me about her lyric was the curse word was not used for any dramatic effect. I don't actually know what sh*t means in this context.

Words are only words. If I lived in another country, a slang word meaning feces or the sex act or whatever might have totally different acceptance. Just because of the society I was raised in. So, words are not as big a deal to me as they are others.

But as a songwriter, you labor over lyrics to try to write something as good as you can write it. And even if I write something risque, I try to make it structurally sound and clever. Even with that, I am sure some things I have written (and enjoy) would raise a few eyebrows on this forum.

I could not make out the structure to this as I read it. And it seemed really stupid. But as for a pop song, stupid works. She (or whomever wrote it) succeeded.


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Bill
Yamaha PSR2000