Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Why Do They Write These Songs?


Listening to Ginuwine's "Last Chance" it crosses my mind - Why the hell do they write these songs?? My favorite songs, and probably some of yours, too, are all melodramatic emotional ballads. Why do they make women think (and maybe sometimes men too)that these things can happen? Does it ever happen?

It's like the old fairy tale syndrome so many women have. We're all waiting for our knight in shining armor to be Captain-Save-a-Hoe and come sweep us off our feet to live happily ever after. It doesn't work like that. Perpetuating this myth is hurtful and disappointing to women and I don't think it's fair to men either. How do they live up to that?

Most men just want regular food, sex and silence. So how does the average guy compete with women's ideas of what a "real man" is supposed to do?? IDK. That part is not really my problem, (hey, we have to compete with the strippers & video chicks so fuck you) but I know that as women we sweetly torture ourselves by listening to this garbage.

Am I a cynical bitch for thinking men write these songs to string us along? Is it wrong for me to think that's not how real love works? Or is life what you make it? Maybe we have a choice. If you choose wisely you too can have a jewelry commercial happen to you in real life. Mmmm. Probably not, because ladies, lets be honest: the ones who want to give us the jewelry commercial are the ones we "just wanna be friends" with.

So in conclusion, maybe it's not the songs. Maybe it's not the writers. Maybe it's the listeners. Could be, but in the meantime I will be happy to put myself through emotional torture.

"If this is my last chance to love you
I'm gonna play it like a grown man ought to
If I only got one shot to win you
Then call me Jordan 4th quarter in '92"

Sing it Ginuwine... and I will just keep believing that one day it can happen for me, too. One day my regular guy will turn into my Knight In Shining Armor. At least until the song is over.

2 comments:

  1. The thing we as women don't like to think about is that men can associate with these songs, and there are many men in the jewelry commercials out there, but we weren't THAT chick to them. Men aren't as afraid of commitment as we think they are. They're afraid of commitment with the wrong chick. Men pay attention to shit like "sparks flying" as much as we do, and if we don't make that happen with them, they entertain us and themselves until they're ready to move on and find THAT chick. The songs exist, just not everytime.

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