Posted by
NY GOP GIRL on Monday, March 30, 2009 9:30:20 PM
Maybe I'm getting old, and I'm definitely out of the loop. My 13 year
old son would probably agree, but not to my face. But for some reason,
I do not understand why it is necessary for Kelly Clarkson's new song
to have a title that says "My life would suck without you."
It's
a catchy tune, for sure. It probably will be very popular. But why use
the word "suck"? Aren't there any other verbs in the dictionary that
could have been used? Does Kelly Clarkson need an edge to her songs,
now? Or is that word just another way of saying "really bad". Maybe in
our "post-Bill Clinton presidency" world the word is now acceptable? I
don't know about you, but I get a little annoyed thinking that 10 year
old girls will be going to Kelly Clarkson concerts and singing along
with the chorus (probably along with their mothers). Is it just me?
I
thought about this. When I was growing up, I listened to certain songs
that had questionable words in them. When I listened to Van Halen's
"Sinners Swing", I was camped out by my stereo in order to turn down
the volume at the strategic moment when a certain word was sung. I
didn't want my mother to hear it. But Sinners Swing was not a
mainstream song. It wasn't played on the radio and the word was not
repeated as part of the chorus. I just heard Kelly Clarkson's song in
the bank today. Nobody seemed to have a problem with it.
So I guess it's just me.