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The most beta song on the planet
05-14-2019, 11:19 PM
Wanted some music to sing along to while working on the house this past weekend. Came across a playlist of old Chris Isaak songs I hadn't listened to in a long time. Perfect, I thought, as my singing voice is pretty close to his.
Wasn't long before I started to notice the first time just how cringey the lyrics to every one of his songs are. Each song on his first four or five albums employs one or more common themes:
- Oneitis and pedestalization
- He feels guilty for cheating on her
- He forgives her for cheating on him
- Begging the girl to come back
- Existential despair over a girl leaving him
- Blaming himself for a girl's fickleness or bad behavior
- Wooing the girl with romantic or chivalrous words or gestures
I was unimpressed.
That said, "Wicked Game" is still one of my all-time favorite songs. I'll grant any singer one mopey heartbreak dirge when it's that well done. But jeez louise, every song?
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The most beta song on the planet
05-16-2019, 12:28 AM
That fag shit that I've heard on the radio a few times recently that says "I just want you to be happier"