Mariah the savage

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guestpass127 on July 6th, 2019 at 15:11 UTC »

There's a long tradition of women singing songs of "praise" to the men in their lives, and the songs of "praise" are full of half-assed or backhanded compliments.

Like "Let's Hear it for the Boy:" "He may not be no Romeo/but he's my lovin' one man show..."

or Mary Wells' "My Guy:" "No muscle-bound man could take my hand from my guy/No handsome face could ever take the place of my guy/He may not be a movie star, but when it comes to bein' happy we are/There's not a man today who could take me away from my guy." wow - think of what she's saying there: I'm stuck with this guy, and he's not attractive - no muscles, not handsome, no charisma, but hey, he's mine and I guess we're happy. Oh joy. I've settled and it's great.

I can't think of any songs besides The Band's "Lonesome Suzie" that are sung from the perspective of a man, singing a song of "praise" for a woman, and the song is full of backhanded compliments. At least in the case of that Band song, the contempt the singer has for his subject is overt, it's the subject of the song. Whereas the songs sung by women appear on the surface to be straightforward love songs to their men, until you actually listen to the lyrics and see that they're full of caveats and hedging phrases and "he may not be (insert desirable quality here), but he's mine."

The women are aware that they're settling, whereas most men (if the love song is sung from their perspective) are psyched to have any woman's love - think of how many straightforward songs of love and praise sung by men toward women don't contain any hedging or sabotage or subversion of the listener's expectations. There's a long tradition of love songs sung by men that essentially boil down to "I'm so happy you settled for a wretch like me."

The379thHero on July 6th, 2019 at 15:14 UTC »

At least someone wants you...

--cheese-- on July 6th, 2019 at 15:19 UTC »

This song was actually written down incorrectly. She's saying she wants a female sheep. All Mariah wants for Christmas is Ewe.