Lyrics 1930's vs Lyrics Today

[nrgbeat]

1930's lyrics:

Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "i love you"
Birds singin’ in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me

Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you’ll miss me
While I’m alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me

Today's lyrics:

My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump.
My lovely lady lumps (x3)

or

Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?
Don't cha
Don't cha
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me?
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me?
Don't cha
Don't cha

and the best one of all

All you ladies pop your pussy like this
Shake your body, don't stop, don't miss
All you ladies pop your pussy like this
Shake your body, don't stop, don't miss
Just do it, do it, do it, do it, do it now

[DiscoMan]

cRap isn't music. It's noise accompanied by crap that pours forth from holes in the faces of certain individuals who think they have talent and whose aural assaults certain record companies foist on an ignorant and low segment of the population as "music".

Rap the true music of the streets died 10 years ago and it's rotting corpse continues to suck the life out of music by night. When something new comes along to replace it, Rap will finally be buried. Until then the recording industry will continue to pull the stake out of it's heart and send it out to suck the life out of the innocent and to prey upon a naive world.

NO MUSIC GENRE in history has had a NATURAL lifespan of 30 years. Shit man, even Rock 'n Roll is dead.

[discokicks]

Originally Posted by DiscoMan

cRap isn't music. It's noise accompanied by crap that pours forth from holes in the faces of certain individuals who think they have talent and whose aural assaults certain record companies foist on an ignorant and low segment of the population as "music".

Rap the true music of the streets died 10 years ago and it's rotting corpse continues to suck the life out of music by night.

Wowwweeeee! I certainly couldn't have said it better!

There are some people out there who would disagree and say that rap is just another genre of musical expression. I don't look at it that way. I suppose it all references to one's definition of music but the art of music has been completely stretched and distorted. By today's standards, one could say that fingernails dragged down a chalkboard is music.

But sadly, rap, grunge, goth etc. are today's methods of expressing anger and hatred through a musical guise and it has it's fair share of lost and despondent listeners....the result of today's aggressive, cold-hearted society. One can see the musical growth of heated anger and rebellion over the last forty years. It's all recorded in our pop charts.

On the other hand, there are lyrics such as these:

This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known
But I was never crazy on my own
And now I know that there's a link between the two
Being close to crazy
And being close to you.

and...

I'm not here to say I'm sorry
I'm not here to lie to you
I'm here to say I'm ready
and I finally thought it thru
I'm not here to let your love go
I'm not giving up oh no
I'm here to win your heart and soul
That's my goal.

Both songs have hit the number one spot on the UK pop charts in the last couple of years and both have dance covers done quite well by Almighty records.

Romantic and danceable pop is still very popular in Europe as well as in other areas of the world. One really has to wonder why people are so angry and spiteful in one of the richest continents. :-?

[DiscoMan]

We have a bigger problem with cRap here in the US of A because of this "gangsta" personna and the other bullshit that goes along with it. Sadly many of our young people seek their authenticity in the phony tough that gangsta cRap pushes. The recent bullshit with Master P and "Dancing With The Stars" is one example.

[Videoskooter]

You guys are 100% right!

These are my favourite lyrics of the moment. It comes from a time when there were SONGS. I prefer the version by mr. Frank Sinatra but I also dig Marlena Shaw's excellent cover:

When I was seventeen
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
We’d hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen

When I was twenty-one
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls
Who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair
And it came undone
When I was twenty-one

When I was thirty-five
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
Of independent means
We’d ride in limousines
Their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five

But now the days grow short
I’m in the autumn of the year
And now I think of my life as vintage wine
>from fine old kegs
>from the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year

It was a mess of good years

[ol'skinflint]

it's weird how you can listen to a song for decades and not notice some pretty spicy lyrics, but today is the first time I listened through headphones to a song called "Helpless Dancer" by the British band the Who. Here's just some of what jumped out at me: "If you complain you diappear/just like the lesbians and queers/No one can love without the grace/Of some unseen and distance face/And you get beaten up by blacks/Who, though they worked, still got the sack"

[JussiK]

It's not fair really to compare the lyrical content of a Cole Porter song or something by Jacques Brel to what gangsta guys come up with, but still...where's CLASS these days when we really need it, the subtle tickling feeling you get from a stylish bit of innuedo...

[Nano]

Rap being a mostly black genre, you should compare those lyrics with other "race" genres of the past. Blues and R&B always were all about sex. Other than sayin' "pussy" out in the front, I don't see so much difference between this and "Workin' with Annie".

(I can see you charging' your bulldozers now!)

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by Nano

"Workin' with Annie"

Is you talking about da punanny?????