Generally I hate rap music. Most of it has a derogatory view towards women, and it's riddled with negative terms towards anything else you can think of. But some of it has a message. Some of it is real. One of those bands is 3OH!3. Now they aren't rap per say, more hip-hop/electronica, but it's the idea of stuff that sounds like a dude spitting made-up lyrics to a beat played by a half-drunk stoner. And it does sound like that! I happen to have a lot of time on my hands, and one night I looked up the lyrics just to see if they were as mindless as I thought. Turns out they weren't! Yes the hook is typical of a rap song, "She wants to touch me, whoa oh. She wants to love me, whoa oh. She'll never leave me, whoa oh whoa oh oh oh. Don't trust a ho, never trust a ho, won't trust a ho, cuz a ho won't trust me." I know, I know. Bad grammar, insulting words, and a hook as mindless as the people who listen to this trash. Except not! Looking into the verse, you realize this song has a story! Not just like, I went to the club to pick up some ladies, I was lookin' so fly, then I took 'em back to my place, got it all undone and we shook it up. An honest to goodness tale about a girl who goes to a show just to forget herself, and be someone else for one night. But then you realize it isn't just one girl, doesn't everyone do that? Which is tragic because if being yourself is too stressful to actually be yourself, are you really being yourself? Although I suppose everyone needs a break now and then. 'And the best is, no one knows who you are. Just another girl, alone at the bar.' This girl isn't just a sad, pathetic person who has a terrible life though. She has material possessions! Which we all know is what life is really about. The point is that people can have what they need on the outside, but if you don't have what you need on the inside, it's really hard to live. Or be satisfied living. 'And she's an actress, but she ain't got no need. She's got money from her parents in a trust fund back east.' But again they go back to their cheesy rap lyrics! I feel like the person who wrote this song has split-personality disorder. Some of the lyrics are sensitive to human feeling. Others are sexist and someone's little brother could have written them. 'Shush girl, shush your lips. Do the Helen Keller, and talk with your hips.' I mean really people, why are you making fun of women! So the last reason I like this song is because it has some lyrics that I can relate to, and most people love it when they feel like a song is about their lives! Trust me I know because Katy Perry wrote her entire album based off of my life.
"X's, on the back of your hands
Wash them in the bathroom to drink like the bands
And the set list
You stole off of the stage
Has red and purple lipstick all over the page."
(not that i've ever done that)
The songs called Don't Trust Me by 3OH!3 but if you want the rest of the lyrics.
http://www.metrolyrics.com/don't-trust-me-lyrics-3oh3.html
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I had no idea that those lyrics were all from one song! I thought "Never trust a ho" and "Shush your lips" were from different songs! This is crazy. Well, i did really like the lyrics that you posted at the bottom with the "lipstick all over the page" part. I agree with what you say about people enjoying finding a song that is about themselves because then it feels like the song can understand and relate to them.
And don't worry, I'll never trust you. ;)
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