I'm not sure if you're like me at all, but if you're anything like me it drives you bananas to listen to a song and either not understand the lyrics (in a logical way), or be completely confused by the lyrics. The other day I was listening to the radio and could not believe it when TWO of the songs with the most frustrating lyrics for me--one an oldy and one a newbie--came on the radio back to back. The first one was "Pour Some Sugar On Me" by Def Leopard and the other was "Starboy" by The Weeknd.
Now let me start by saying that I love both of these songs and I listen to them whenever they play, even if it's five times in a 20 minute cycle. But in the pre-Google era of my youth, it took me forever to figure out what Def Leopard actually wanted me to pour on them. At one point it was "shook-up Ramen", at another it was "sugar Ramen"... what can I say: I'm still a big fan of the nutritionally challenged Ramen noodles, and so to my young mind, maybe the guys just also really, really loved Ramen and wanted someone to pour it all over them.
As for The Weekend: I've been a really big fan of his music ever since "Earned It". I also recently learned of his Canadian Dream story. He is the son of a hard-working Ethiopian immigrant mother: a boy who, like so many others, may have felt the anger and frustrations of having an absent father, and as a result succumbed to issues with drugs and the wrong peer influence that led him to drop out of high school. At some point he must have gotten his act together enough to become a mega-musical artist--one who hopefully takes great care of his mommy, and realizes that the biggest threat to his continued domination of his craft, is drugs and letting the wrong people guide his behavior and his decisions.
The first time I heard his latest mega-hit "Starboy" I loved it! BUT: there is one line in the song where it seems like The Weeknd says "Star Trek [something] and the WRAITH of Khan..." I swear, I'm not being facetious or rude when I say that hearing this line has been driving me bananas for the past several weeks. At first I thought perhaps it was a copyright thing where he could not actually say "Wrath of Khan"--you know, along the lines of Lindsay Lohan attempting to sue Pitt Bull for using the lyrics, "locked up like Lindsey Lohan" in one of his songs. But to me switching the word "wrath" to "wraith" for that reason made no sense because he talks about Brad Pitt in the song as well. So then I thought perhaps it was because he wanted to convey in the song that he was the ghost of Khan from the Star Trek movie "Wrath of Khan", and that kinda sorta made sense. But then I hear the song about five times today and curiosity finally got the best of me. I consulted the Oracle of Google to get an official answer about the lyrics in the song.
Alas, I'm even more confused because according to the lyrics it says "Wrath of Khan" but if you take the time to listen to the song (if you have been under a rock wearing some noise canceling Beats headphones and have not heard it yet), I think you will agree with me that in the actual song he doesn't say the word "wrath"... He clearly says the word "wraith".
There's another pop song that's also driving me bananas but I'm going to resist the urge to even look up the lyrics of that one. Yep. I'm going to remain blissfully ignorant about that song where she (whoever sings it) says something about being left in the basement and how he (maybe her boyfriend) was not there but his brother was a good substitute... Yep. I'm going to take the advice of Yoda: blissfully ignorant, remain I will.
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