Posted on 06/07/2017 5:14:33 AM PDT by brucedickinson
When Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj teamed up, their resulting single Side to Side shot right to the top of the charts! And it's easy to see why; the song is catchy, it's sexy, and it's got an energetic, bouncing, funky beat that will have you bobbing along with the music even if you have no idea what the song is about. Plus, that VMA performance with the exercise bicycles was pretty neat.
Speaking of "what the song is talking about," it's not always easy to tell what's really going on in lyrics like these. The girls use their fair share of euphemism and metaphor, so you might not catch everything even if you listen closely.
So, with the help of annotations from genius.com, I've gone through and translated the lyrics to Side to Side so you can have a better understanding of the music.
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"And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived."- Revelation 18:23
Right-With ‘social media’ you can function and ‘belong’ without ANY education/social skills/discernment, etc.
I am certain that losers find a place there, who couldn’t ‘make it’ at a party, in a classroom, in a work place or group of any kind.
You can communicate on face book completely without language skills or a personality. You don’t need to bring anything to the forum.
Thanks to the NEA and the MSM, the face book population are like sheep seduced with the crudest of lures and funneled into ONE path!
Respecting, much less RECOGNIZING any other viewpoint is anathema!
If I learn that an adult of my acquaintance spends time on Face Book, they instantly lose all credibility and are diminished in my esteem.
You forgot George Soros in your line-up there.
It’s hard to believe anything like this passes for entertainment these days. You might as well just send your kids to a titty bar.
is he American though? He sure likes to meddle with us. Hungarian. But yes, certainly a great merchant
He is an American citizen.
Opera is pretty saucy. Even going back to classic Greek theater, you find it full of adultery, promiscuity, and occasional mother-loving. Sex sells. Always has.
I think it’s regrettable that music is being used to coarsen our culture. It demonstrates a lack of respect for the medium, among other things.
That said, I wasn’t corrupted by listening to Black Sabbath or KISS or the Who when I was a teen. I think we have to give people a little more credit ... even teenage girls.
Who are the two streetwalkers in the last picture and why are they on stage? Does their pimp know they’re running around on him?
well then, he’s up there too
“Dirty lyrics aren’t anything new. Aerosmith’s “Big 10 Inch” wasn’t about a small-screen TV. And “Wango Tango” isn’t Ted Nugent’s tribute to Spanish dance.”
Is that supposed to somehow be a defense or rationalization.
That lousy bands you like are also scum bags makes it all good?
This video should have 500 million views! But it never will. Ariana’s dick bicycle video already does, however.
It was about a record, records were once 10 inches, instead of 12)
And this WAS the real Onika Tanya Maraj, from Trinidad when she was little, before perhaps 1 million in plastic surgery, breast, hip, butt, chip and lip implants transformed her into a deviance-pimping monster:
Vile lyrics are nothing new. They are now mainstream.
This social media stuff changes the way people think in my opinion.
Also the ubiquitous and pervasive nature of porn in this era where every phone is a video player/recorder hooked up to the internet probably isn’t too good for society.
Freegards
I have never heard of the term wrist icicles or the second phrase described in that manner before. It’s a good thing I haven’t listened to her music.
First of all, “lousy bands” is an opinion, nothing more.
Secondly, I never said I liked them. I merely cited them.
Thirdly, I never said their lyrics justified anything.
Fourthly, you need to learn to read more and assume less.
Did I touch a nerve?
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