OK so the other day I picked apart the song Love Story by Taylor Swift. Today I'm going to pick apart a song I have never heard all the way through. I don't even know who sings it. It goes like this; "Cheater, Cheater, Where'd you meet her?" and then I think the singer suggests a few different ways he might have met "That white trash.....ho"
Excuse me. I like crossovers, I'm not complaining about crossovers. I'm complaining about the use of the word "ho" in country music.
It's bad enough that country music is so full of alcoholism and infidelity, but must we add ebonics? I like it with my hip hop yo yo, but not in country music. There's a time and place for everything. There's a natural order in the world and mixing things up like this goes against nature. If the song becomes a hit, then I'm really getting old. Where will it end? Maybe next we'll be hearing "Yo cowgirls they get crazy. Yo preacher he get crazy" or "So what, I'm still a cowgirl."
Sorry, we listen to several different genre's in our house. So maybe that makes me an authority.
Let's just please not allow country music to use the word "ho" OK. Women, even the sleezy ones aren't garden tools. AND, if it's short for whore or hooker, let's just realize both of those words were originally meant to imply prostitution and I'm willing to bet that 99% of the people who have been called a ho are really NOT getting paid for it.
On another note, I really like the Dierks Bentley song "Feel that fire" but not the video. The half-naked lady on the hood of his car and playing with puppies in lingerie really isn't what I pictured when I heard the song. Each verse sounds like a little girl getting older and older, not an immature supermodel play-acting in a music video. I hope the song wasn't written by a pedophile, because the video kind of creeped me out. Grow up, woman.
Monday, January 12, 2009
They might be hos but we can't call them that in country music
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