Idiosyncratic: Haterz
Brandon Kenney
Issue date: 10/24/07 Section: News
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BY BRANDON KENNEY
I don't understand society.
Normally, I don't listen to the radio for music; most of it is the banal epitome of mediocrity thrown into a garbage can after rotting for multiple days. Apparently the current reigning number one single, however, is from an eighteen-year-old boy, and has spawned a phenomenon of mutated dance moves and improvised remixes. My roommate played it over the weekend and I couldn't stop laughing.
The lyrics are as follows: "…I'm Jocking On Yo B***h A**/And If We Get The Fightin/Den im cockin on ya b***h a**/You Catch Me At Yo Local Party/Yes I Crank It Everyday/Haterz Get Mad Cuz/I Got Me Some Bathin Apes…" Another of his songs depicts the proper response one should give if someone comes up to you in the club: "Yahhh, trick, yahhh." I'm not sure how I would react if someone came up to me, anywhere, and said "yahhh, trick, yahhh." I probably would cower, put my tail between my legs, and run home crying that the world was going to end.
This is what mainstream America favors at the moment - or at least the last thirteen weeks. They are infatuated with a song about sexual deviance and the most unique form of grammar I have ever stumbled upon. But, why is it like this? How did it get this way? Record labels can only push a song so far and it is well past that mark. I don't recognize a majority of the language used. I have no idea what a "bathin ape" is or how I "jock" on someone. The chorus of the song, "Superman dat h*," insinuates more than I care to imagine. Yet, this is what is played on the radio, I'm told, unceasingly in what must be the cars of soccer moms and teenagers alike - for a song to reach number one it has to meet those criteria.
Soccer moms, who can now be considered teenagers in some instances, listen to this. It is an entirely different form of communication - a dialect of the English language. Maybe I'm acting a bit bigoted in this situation. I am not a part of this culture, and therefore I am, like he says, "hating." Or maybe I just don't get how a majority of Americans can relate to any of the lyrics. I'm sure there are select groups that can tell tales of superman-ing and jock-ing, but that is not mainstream America. I truly wonder if they know what is being said when the radio blares the most listened to song in America.
I don't understand society.
Normally, I don't listen to the radio for music; most of it is the banal epitome of mediocrity thrown into a garbage can after rotting for multiple days. Apparently the current reigning number one single, however, is from an eighteen-year-old boy, and has spawned a phenomenon of mutated dance moves and improvised remixes. My roommate played it over the weekend and I couldn't stop laughing.
The lyrics are as follows: "…I'm Jocking On Yo B***h A**/And If We Get The Fightin/Den im cockin on ya b***h a**/You Catch Me At Yo Local Party/Yes I Crank It Everyday/Haterz Get Mad Cuz/I Got Me Some Bathin Apes…" Another of his songs depicts the proper response one should give if someone comes up to you in the club: "Yahhh, trick, yahhh." I'm not sure how I would react if someone came up to me, anywhere, and said "yahhh, trick, yahhh." I probably would cower, put my tail between my legs, and run home crying that the world was going to end.
This is what mainstream America favors at the moment - or at least the last thirteen weeks. They are infatuated with a song about sexual deviance and the most unique form of grammar I have ever stumbled upon. But, why is it like this? How did it get this way? Record labels can only push a song so far and it is well past that mark. I don't recognize a majority of the language used. I have no idea what a "bathin ape" is or how I "jock" on someone. The chorus of the song, "Superman dat h*," insinuates more than I care to imagine. Yet, this is what is played on the radio, I'm told, unceasingly in what must be the cars of soccer moms and teenagers alike - for a song to reach number one it has to meet those criteria.
Soccer moms, who can now be considered teenagers in some instances, listen to this. It is an entirely different form of communication - a dialect of the English language. Maybe I'm acting a bit bigoted in this situation. I am not a part of this culture, and therefore I am, like he says, "hating." Or maybe I just don't get how a majority of Americans can relate to any of the lyrics. I'm sure there are select groups that can tell tales of superman-ing and jock-ing, but that is not mainstream America. I truly wonder if they know what is being said when the radio blares the most listened to song in America.
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