What pop songs taught us this year…

We’re getting near the end of 2010 and irritatingly enough, this period of time every year, we get top 10s of every possible thing that might have happened in the ending year. So, we get the best and worse moments of reality TV, soap operas, pop songs, movies etc.

So, I was thinking which are the pop songs that were successful this year and what their lyrics or videos actually mean…

The first song that came into my mind, is my all time favourite ‘tik tok’ by Kesha, or is Ke$ha or whatever. I’m not going to comment how irritating it is to have a dollar sign in your own name, signifying how serious an artist you are and what’s your ultimate goal in life! What I love about this song are two parts. The first part is when it is mentioned how she washes her teeth with a bottle of Jack Daniels (brilliant song writing) and the second is how later the words ‘crunk’, ‘junk’ and ‘drunk’ rhyme where cruck = high and junk = private body parts.

Later on this year we learned about the ‘California gurls’ by Katy Perry, the girl with the blue hair. This song definitely funded by the State, talks about the best touristic destination ever. A place where people are beautiful, the grass is green and the girls wear bikinis and Daisy Duke shorts. This is a definitely sexual paradise, since in California people have sex on the beach, let their asses hang out and drink martinis all day long! The world’s most sexist song ever…

What was really interesting to learn was the self destructive and masochistic tendencies that Rihanna has. In the song written by Eminem, she admits that she is a girl who will just stand there and let herself burn and who feels alright when she cries since she loves the way he lies! Loving someone’s way of telling lies is probably as self destructive as Sinead O’Connor’s refusal to move on in ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. Talking about creating foundations of a healthy relationship…

I couldn’t of course not comment on ‘Lady Gaga’ and one of her songs or videos. This year top interesting video (for me at least) was ‘Telephone’ featuring Beyonce. The lyrics only talk about her frustration on how many phone calls she’s be getting from the same person, a stalker who just doesn’t want to leave her alone enjoy her life, favourite song and party. The video however shows BB (Beyonce) picking up the just released from prison Lady Gaga. As a modern ‘Thelma and Louise’ they go to an American diner and they poison one of BB’s ‘special friends’ before driving off towards the sunset. This quite educational video however features the way to make poison to kill not only one, but all of the diner’s customers…

To finish this totally unofficial top 5 of pop songs, I was thinking of adding a male artist. I just couldn’t think of one though. I really don’t like boy bands (I despise JLS) and the likes of Ne-Yo, Akon or whatever. Every time something like that comes along, I just change station or channel. Not having heard or seen a whole song or video, I can’t really comment. In this category of people I don’t like is definitely Justin Bieber. He is selling though and he is talking about love. One of his hit singles is called ‘baby’ and this is a part of the lyrics. I don’t think I have actually heard the full song but the lyrics seem amazing…

And I was like baby, baby, baby, oh

Like baby, baby, baby, no

Like baby, baby, baby, oh

I thought you'd always be mine, mine

Baby, baby, baby, oh

Like baby, baby, baby, no

Like baby, baby, baby, oh

I thought you'd always be mine, mine

So, what have we learned this year? We really need to learn how to wash our teeth with spirits, visit California to touch women’s bottoms, learn to accept that people lie and love them about it, keep a poison recipe in case we need it and say ‘baby’ many (many) times… Let’s see what the next year will bring…