Twenty. Meet me at the Bar.
So confession time, for those that don’t know, my car is super ghetto, it doesn’t have anything but FM/AM. So a lot of times when I don’t feel like listening to the music on my mp3 player and want some variety, I’d turn on the radio. I used to listen to a lot of 102.1 but lately, I haven’t really liked the music they offered, so I tune into a lot of the new pop music stations (kiss 92.5, 104.5, 99.9 and etc).
I must say, one of the songs have caught my attention, it’s by Girlicious, and it’s called “2 in the morning”. It’s a hilarious song, there’s so many things wrong with it. I’ll start with the group itself. Girlicious. Yes the are formed by the winners of a reality TV show by the pussycat dolls. Mhmmm, great a girl group that are supposedly embodying the modern lifestyle of women. Marketed towards mid-teenage girls (because that’s all they really are, just a product that needs to be marketed and sold to make more money). Really, all the girls who buy into this are the ones who buy into this notion that being in your 20’s means long nights of clubbing in high heels, trashy outfits and lots of booze. The group itself is about as corporate as anything can get nowadays. Honestly, everything about them says “we’re paid money to do what we’re doing”. I’d wager a lot of my money in saying that nothing about them is genuine, all of it is just a marketing ploy by a bunch of boardroom execs who decides what’s the best way to generate cash from teenagers. Looking at just their TV show, you’d understand that that alone was made to generate views, and money, the viewers vote on what they want to see in the group (that’s like free market research. Wait no, they get paid to do market research). Teenage girls who are already buying this image that trashy = better, vote for the trashiest of the contestants, and at the end America get’s what they voted for, which is guaranteed to sell because hey, the buyers voted for who get’s to be in the group, how can the group not sell? It’s already tailored to what the buyer expects to see.
Anyhow, onto the song, the uhm…lyrical content (serious what lyrical content?) there’s probably 10 unique lines in that song and then the rest of it is just repeated over and over and over again.
Intro : We don’t need no lights because apparently they shine like a star (are they vampires too?) then they want fellas to meet them at the bar.
Verse 1: Something about being in a club, people trying to throw them out, but they won’t leave and want to drink more (which is about 6 lines)
chorus: It’s 2 in the morning, Don’t be scared to grab a partner, stand up if you’re sitting, DJ better man up (I don’t even…wtf?). They are spinning like a disco. Argh the lyrics don’t even make sense.
Verse 2: Someone wants to call the cops, they won’t let them in, because they are over capacity. (6 lines again)
Chorus, Outro (which is the same as intro) then chorus chorus chorus until it fades away. Yup song has NO lyrical content at all, Oh there’s a rap part that I’ll go over, so what they are saying is uhm, you (probably a guy) can meet them at the bar if you want to see a star (makes sense thus far). Girlicious as a group (or the rapper) are a very shallow and materialistic group. They don’t like music unless it’s raw (as in like not over produced? so you don’t like your own music?). Then they will put their drink up on the bar, and drop it because it’s low (sorry, drop what because it’s low? Wait, if it’s low how do you drop it?). Then they will proceed to do it like it’s never been done before (what’s not been done before?). Finally they are a 5 star chick (of course you are *rolls eyes*) and they will put it down hardcore like la la la la la <— yeah, I don’t even know what it means to describe yourself with la’s.
“Hey Hey,Yeah you can meet me at the bar/
If you wanna see the star/
I like them diamond rings and things/
Don’t like them music less it’s raw/
Imma put my drink up on the bar/
Drop, drop it cuz it’s low/
And do it like it ain’t been done before/
Imma 5 star chick put it down hardcore like La La La La La”
So from my understanding, what they are saying is uhm, you (probably a guy) can meet them at the bar if you want to see a star (makes sense thus far). Girlicious as a group (or the rapper) are a very shallow and materialistic group. They don’t like music unless it’s raw (as in like not over produced? so you don’t like your own music?). Then they will put their drink up on the bar, and drop it because it’s low (sorry, drop what because it’s low? Wait, if it’s low how do you drop it?). Then they will proceed to do it like it’s never been done before (what’s not been done before?). Finally they are a 5 star chick (of course you are *rolls eyes*) and they will put it down hardcore like la la la la la <— yeah, I don’t even know what it means to describe yourself with la’s.
For those who found that this was TL;DR the main idea is that Girlicious as a group is a sad group of simple minded individuals who would do anything for money, and currently have put their dignity up for sale, and sadly from the chart performance it seems that a lot of America (and Canada) are buying it.
