It has recently dawned on me that modern day songs are getting more and more trashy. There seems to be a trend that glorifies sex / lust over love / romance. And I shall not entertain thoughts about the possibilities that I may just be growing old.

“I just had sex.” Seriously, Akon?

“We like to sleep all day and party all night. This is how we like to live our life.” Yes Sean, as much as I’d like to commend you for the rare occasion that you got your grammar right (read: “We outta control”, what happened to “are”?) for the first half of that sentence, what kind of Siamese twin are you, for “we” (i.e. more than one person, I assume) to have only one life..? And your entire song repeats this sentence so many times it’s not even creative. Thank goodness the beat is quite catchy. Still, I won’t download this song, thanks :)

And then there are songs that don’t even make sense.

“I look, I feel, I smell like money.” This one’s by Three 6 Mafia.

#1. You look like money… Since the artists of this piece of ‘music’ are rappers and they want to portray themselves as cool gangstazxzxz, the image of freshly-printed money should not come to mind. Instead, it should be that of crumpled, torn and perhaps those pieces of paper that nobody really wants to touch because they have been passed around to hawkers and butchers who may have had contact with filthy animals and even manure..? So… You look disfigured and unwanted, I see. Oh, and you’re also flat, rectangular and green.

#2. You feel like money… Okay, so you feel like everybody wants you. Please don’t be disappointed when you find out this isn’t so. Refer to #1.

#3. You smell like money… Recalling from #1, you smell filthy. And even if you do smell like freshly-printed money, are you sure you want to smell like that? Why not other fragrances?

#4. Or perhaps the image you want to portray is indeed one that is unwanted and dejected as mentioned above. To that I shall have nothing to say, except… you want the whole world to know this because..?

To top this off, there are those songs that try too hard to be artistic/poetic and use symbolic representation to get their points across (or at least they try to).

In the past, this has been rather successful: “I miss you like the deserts miss the rain”. Quite logical, I’d say.

Recently though, “Shawty’s love is like a pyramid.”

Hm alright, I guess the point that Iyaz and Charice are trying to make is that their love is solid and everlasting and wonderful (7 wonders of the world?). So that’s like a pyramid, hence the song. But did you really think it through? Are pyramids not triangular and dusty and did the building not torture lots of poor Egyptian slaves? Your love is triangular and dusty and tortures other people? I want one of those, to go, please!

And more importantly, why has it become a trend to call your significant other “Shawty”? How did it come to mean “an attractive woman”? I am confused and bothered at how women are not revolting at such an insulting and degrading nickname that they have come to bear.

Don’t get me started on “We R who we R” by Ke$ha.