"In My Head"
Jason Derülo.
Deluga Heights.
J. J. J. J. J. R.
Come on.
Everybody's looking for love. Oh. Oh.
Ain't that the reason you're at this club. Oh. Oh.
You ain't gonna find a dance with him. No. Oh.
Got a better solution for you girl. Oh. Oh.
Just leave with me now, Say the word and we'll go.
I'll be your teacher. I'll show you the ropes.
You'll see a side of love you've never known.
I can see it going down, going down.
In my head, I see you all over me.
In my head, you fulfill my fantasy.
In my head, you'll be screaming more.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head. Yeah. In my head. Oh yeah.
Some dudes know all the right things to say.
When it comes down to it, it's just a game.
Instead of talking let me demonstrate. Yeah.
Get down to business let's skip foreplay.
Just leave with me now. Say the word and we'll go.
I'll be your teacher. I'll show you the ropes.
You'll see a side of love you've never known.
I can see it going down, going down.
In my head, I see you all over me.
In my head, you fulfill my fantasy.
In my head, you'll be screaming more.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head.
Break it down. Ay-oh. Come on. Ay-oh. Ay-oh.
You singing to me baby in my head right now. Ay-oh. Ay-oh. Come on.
She'll be screaming out when it all goes down.
Just leave with me now. Say the word and we'll go. We can go.
I'll be your teacher. I'll show you the ropes.
You'll see a side of love you've never known.
I can see it going down, going down.
In my head, I see you all over me.
In my head, you fulfill my fantasy.
In my head, you'll be screaming no.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head, I see you all over me.
In my head, you fulfill my fantasy.
In my head, you'll be screaming more.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head.
Deluga Heights.
J. J. J. J. J. R.
Come on.
Everybody's looking for love. Oh. Oh.
Ain't that the reason you're at this club. Oh. Oh.
You ain't gonna find a dance with him. No. Oh.
Got a better solution for you girl. Oh. Oh.
Just leave with me now, Say the word and we'll go.
I'll be your teacher. I'll show you the ropes.
You'll see a side of love you've never known.
I can see it going down, going down.
In my head, I see you all over me.
In my head, you fulfill my fantasy.
In my head, you'll be screaming more.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head. Yeah. In my head. Oh yeah.
Some dudes know all the right things to say.
When it comes down to it, it's just a game.
Instead of talking let me demonstrate. Yeah.
Get down to business let's skip foreplay.
Just leave with me now. Say the word and we'll go.
I'll be your teacher. I'll show you the ropes.
You'll see a side of love you've never known.
I can see it going down, going down.
In my head, I see you all over me.
In my head, you fulfill my fantasy.
In my head, you'll be screaming more.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head.
Break it down. Ay-oh. Come on. Ay-oh. Ay-oh.
You singing to me baby in my head right now. Ay-oh. Ay-oh. Come on.
She'll be screaming out when it all goes down.
Just leave with me now. Say the word and we'll go. We can go.
I'll be your teacher. I'll show you the ropes.
You'll see a side of love you've never known.
I can see it going down, going down.
In my head, I see you all over me.
In my head, you fulfill my fantasy.
In my head, you'll be screaming no.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head, I see you all over me.
In my head, you fulfill my fantasy.
In my head, you'll be screaming more.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head, it's going down.
In my head.
When this song came out and it was all over the radio, I honestly didn't think much of it. I just sang along, no big deal. But this past year I learned a lot about song writing and wrote songs myself, so that caused me to subconsciously pay attention to each song I was listening to... and when this song came on, I couldn't help but laugh out loud. I pictured this artist sitting down, pencil in hand, jotting down these lyrics, and it just made me shake my head, not to mention totally creeped me out. Yeah, it's a catchy song, but it's pretty obvious what he's trying to say: he wants to take this girl home, he's imagining it all "going down". I'm sure some women would find this song to be attractive because the guy wants her so badly, but I find it unimpressive and frankly, gross... this guy would have a fat chance of "taking me home". This song is just an example of our pop culture in music; it revolves around sex, it's focused on sex, it teaches us about sex and forms our perception of it and what it's supposed to be or how it's supposed to happen. My opinion: it cheapens sex.
My question: is this media positively or negatively impacting our society's view of sex. In this song, it's indicating that they're both at a club to find "love", so it he is assuming she wants to go home with them, that either way he would convince her. We sing songs like this without thought, it's just another song on the radio, and usually have become numb to the subtexts. For example, the song "Sail" by AWOLNATION was really popular, and I loved the song. However, when I started noticing what I was singing and what the song was saying, it broke my heart. One main verse of the song: "Maybe I should cry for help, maybe I should kill myself, blame it on my A.D.D. baby". Lyrics like this - so prevalent, but most of the time, lyrics rarely register in our minds as we sing along in songs like these.
As I was thinking about Steven Crowder's article on "waiting until marriage" and Laci's sexuality blog, I noticed a few things. First off, Steven would probably comment on this song saying that it degrades sex in general, and promotes sex as an object of simple physical desire; love is about me fulfilling my own sexual fantasy, instead of about self-denying servanthood, that love is patient and love is kind, it is not self seeking, but does indeed result and manifest in sex. On the other hand, Laci would probably think that this song isn't a big deal, it is reality, and acceptable because it's important in any relationship to please each other sexually and to explore sexuality, and it's fun! As I was thinking about our "trans" unit and each article we've read, I realized that if this song "In My Head" was Jason Derulo singing instead about a boy he met in a club, it would cause complete uproar and we would definitely think twice about how we sang along. However, I then realized that songs like "I Kissed A Girl" by Katy Perry and "Same Love" by Macklemore, have been very popular and fairly uncontroversial. The "graphicness" of "In My Head" differs from those songs, but still, I wonder if music media will soon become more universally open in terms of female and male gender roles, as well as male and female sexual identity.
My question: is this media positively or negatively impacting our society's view of sex. In this song, it's indicating that they're both at a club to find "love", so it he is assuming she wants to go home with them, that either way he would convince her. We sing songs like this without thought, it's just another song on the radio, and usually have become numb to the subtexts. For example, the song "Sail" by AWOLNATION was really popular, and I loved the song. However, when I started noticing what I was singing and what the song was saying, it broke my heart. One main verse of the song: "Maybe I should cry for help, maybe I should kill myself, blame it on my A.D.D. baby". Lyrics like this - so prevalent, but most of the time, lyrics rarely register in our minds as we sing along in songs like these.
As I was thinking about Steven Crowder's article on "waiting until marriage" and Laci's sexuality blog, I noticed a few things. First off, Steven would probably comment on this song saying that it degrades sex in general, and promotes sex as an object of simple physical desire; love is about me fulfilling my own sexual fantasy, instead of about self-denying servanthood, that love is patient and love is kind, it is not self seeking, but does indeed result and manifest in sex. On the other hand, Laci would probably think that this song isn't a big deal, it is reality, and acceptable because it's important in any relationship to please each other sexually and to explore sexuality, and it's fun! As I was thinking about our "trans" unit and each article we've read, I realized that if this song "In My Head" was Jason Derulo singing instead about a boy he met in a club, it would cause complete uproar and we would definitely think twice about how we sang along. However, I then realized that songs like "I Kissed A Girl" by Katy Perry and "Same Love" by Macklemore, have been very popular and fairly uncontroversial. The "graphicness" of "In My Head" differs from those songs, but still, I wonder if music media will soon become more universally open in terms of female and male gender roles, as well as male and female sexual identity.
Hi Elyssa! I really like your post. Lately I've also been bugged by how much we overlooked lyrics of any songs. During VMA, Miley Cyrus took over world's attention with her twerks. People everywhere complain how she has grown up the 'wrong' way, always comparing her with herself back then as an innocent Miley. Even before VMA, her We Can't Stop music video was skyrocketing in its popularity, although people are criticizing it. But hey, Robin Thicke is probably glad he escapes the world's prejudice as nobody is criticizing Blurred Lines lyrics or even his sexually explicit music video. This (http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/09/17/from-the-mouths-of-rapists-the-lyrics-of-robin-thickes-blurred-lines-and-real-life-rape/) article explains how Blurred Lines very much mimics what a rapist would say to a victim. "I know you want it..." "You're a good girl..." etc. Even if this lyrics isn't meant to sexually degrade women, the music video clearly depicts women as objects. It's just funny that Robin Thicke and Miley was standing side by side, together singing their own songs yet we put so much focus, anger, hatred on Miley, and absolutely none to Robin. Are we actually enjoying the depiction of women in Robin's music video? It seems that people are more interested to see a child star grows up in a sexually destructive way than lyrics and video that promote females objectification or even sexual assault.
ReplyDeleteElyssa, I find your post very interesting along with Michelle's comments. When looking at how the media influences our views on sex, I think Michelle's references to Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke are more than appropriate. For me, I never really LISTENED to Blurred Lines. I just sang along because it was a catchy tune. It wasn't until I came across an article about the song and its blatant references to sexual assault that I realized what the song was truly about. This prompted me to watch the music video in which I became even more shocked. I think it is interesting to point out that it seems like society is more uncomfortable with a women putting themselves in a sexualized position, aka Miley Cyrus and her performance at the VMAs along with her recent music videos (nudity, scandalous clothing and dancing, twerking, etc.), than we are with men in the media portraying women as sexual objects. Like Michelle said, nobody really gave Blurred Lines a second look, but people are raving about every move Miley makes lately. How as a society have we let music with messages like these take over?
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