Comments on: BLU CANTRELL – “Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops)” http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/09/blu-cantrell-hit-em-up-style-oops/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:46:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cis http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/09/blu-cantrell-hit-em-up-style-oops/#comment-650202 cis Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:48:39 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=15342#comment-650202 Tim, those are exactly the lyrics I would have chosen to demonstrate the moment I went starry-eyed over RnB girl materialism! "so what, you bought a pair of shoes / what, now, I guess you think I owe you?" was so new and vital and important a statement of a totally alien, utterly fascinating femininity. Tim, those are exactly the lyrics I would have chosen to demonstrate the moment I went starry-eyed over RnB girl materialism! “so what, you bought a pair of shoes / what, now, I guess you think I owe you?” was so new and vital and important a statement of a totally alien, utterly fascinating femininity.

]]> By: Tim F http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/09/blu-cantrell-hit-em-up-style-oops/#comment-650194 Tim F Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:43:50 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=15342#comment-650194 I wouldn't be surprised that if a lot of the critical feting surrounding R&B in the early 00s publicly focused on the sonics while actually people were getting off on the high-drama materialist (in both senses) lyricism and bite of the songs themselves. This isn't as strong as the great Kandi songs (esp. "Bills Bills Bills" and "Bugaboo" - hard to think of lyrics I like more than "So what, you bought a pair of shoes/What, now, I guess you think I owe you/You don't have to call as much as you do /I'll give 'em back to be through with you /And so what, my momma likes you /What, now I guess you think I will too/Even if the Pope said he likes you too/I don't really care 'cause you're a bug a boo") in this regard, but you're spot on about how Blu's performance lifts it to almost that level. I wouldn’t be surprised that if a lot of the critical feting surrounding R&B in the early 00s publicly focused on the sonics while actually people were getting off on the high-drama materialist (in both senses) lyricism and bite of the songs themselves.

This isn’t as strong as the great Kandi songs (esp. “Bills Bills Bills” and “Bugaboo” – hard to think of lyrics I like more than “So what, you bought a pair of shoes/What, now, I guess you think I owe you/You don’t have to call as much as you do /I’ll give ‘em back to be through with you /And so what, my momma likes you /What, now I guess you think I will too/Even if the Pope said he likes you too/I don’t really care ’cause you’re a bug a boo”) in this regard, but you’re spot on about how Blu’s performance lifts it to almost that level.

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