Songs About Your Girlfriend

Tonight I listeded to a song about my girlfriend. This was a new, and needless to say, weird experience for me.

On October 1st, a new album was released with a single titled after my girlfriend. I listened to it for the first time tonight. The song itself is alright. It seems young. The lyrics are a bit too righteous and indignant to be taken seriously, but the production is nice and produced-sounding. I mean, obvoiusly, I hate the song. Pretending to be objective is silly. Hearing a song that is so clearly about a person you know and care for is difficult. I guess that's part of it. It was like finding out that someone is in love with the person you love, or at least they were in love with that person. Hearing things about her that were true and some facts that are still true, made me feel sick. It was like being hit in the stomach. Obviously, now, i must destroy him.

So aside from all this personal shit, the song is pretty awful. I mean, really, though, the song is not good. Actually, it's a well-made bad song. That's part of the problem. It's petulant and trite, and though there are a few good lyrics, they are sprinkled so haphazardly among trash that they're difficult to find, let alone enjoy. Lyrics like, "I think you almost get me, but no one will ever get me," simply can't be tolerated. Aside from my own personal problems with the notion of others "getting" you, it's ridiculous to think that no one will ever understand you. It's ridiculous and insulting. It is especially insulting when considering how freely this dude talks about and diagnoses the problems of others in the song.

My first girlfriend wrote a poem about me not too long ago. I felt similarly about it. It was dramatic and silly, and it took something that was natural and nice and made it seem unfortunate and sad. The things that happened to us then were sad at the time, but now they were just a part of growing up. I don't understand the need to dramatize the past. The songs and poems that stick out to me, have always been honest or elucidating or even simple. I understand the urge or inclination for the dramatic, I just wish that it wouldn't be indulged unnecessarily. If you're writing about something sad that's fine, but if you're writing about how a girl wouldn't sleep with you in college and it hurt your feelings, maybe just say that. I guess you could just keep doing that and let your fan base consist of 12 to 15 year old girls forever. That's cool too.