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[Rant] So I realized the other day
11 years ago
while listening to the radio at work, which constantly plays 90s songs, that As Long As You Love Me by the Backstreet Boys, which I've always detested generally, really bugs me primarily because if you look at the lyrics, the singer is so fucking desperate.
I don't care who you are, Where you're from,
What you did, as long as you love me
Is it just me, or is that a lot to not care about? I can sort of see they intended it as sort of a None of these particular factors will be of that much importance in a relationship, but to me, it comes across as I am literally now taking applications from the permanently-incarcerated, I am so lonely.
"How's the new girlfriend?"
"Oh, she's fine! She's the daughter of a Somalian pirate warlord, and, I mean, she's on trial right now for killing a busload of nuns with a sledgehammer, but she says she loves me, so she can't be all that bad..."
Just something I've been meaning to get off my chest since, oh, 1997 or so.
I don't care who you are, Where you're from,
What you did, as long as you love me
Is it just me, or is that a lot to not care about? I can sort of see they intended it as sort of a None of these particular factors will be of that much importance in a relationship, but to me, it comes across as I am literally now taking applications from the permanently-incarcerated, I am so lonely.
"How's the new girlfriend?"
"Oh, she's fine! She's the daughter of a Somalian pirate warlord, and, I mean, she's on trial right now for killing a busload of nuns with a sledgehammer, but she says she loves me, so she can't be all that bad..."
Just something I've been meaning to get off my chest since, oh, 1997 or so.
Love songs are rarely ever realistic... and the really weird ones are often written to appeal to teenagers. Especially back in the 90's, when a music CD was $15.00, and teenagers were buying them up by the dozens with their parent's money.
Pop music isn't written to inspire, or to move. Its written to sell so a particular demographic. And the wild success of the boy bands in the 90's is a prime example of that working.
"Dude, she's fourteen and buying your CD with her allowance money."
"I DON'T CARE MAN, AS LONG AS SHE LOVES ME"
Soulful eyes a plus.
Funny thing, back when they came out me and my male friends ranted about how disgusting they are, and how terrible the music they make is. Yet, when our English teacher one day asked during some sort of questionnaire thing who did NOT like the "Backstreet Boys" I was the only one raising their hand. I was like... "Traitors."
It's mildly amusing to me that you feel this way about this song because there is so much worse that is out there that both pre-dates the Backstreet Boys and runs alongside them as peers. Check out "Seventeen" by Winger if you really want to get creeped out. Alice Cooper did this shit a lot too, but with him it was intentional; he wanted to unsettle his audience. With some of the other guys though, it seems...doubtful that creepy was intentional.
She's got connections, mang. And how many people can say their father in law is an honest to betsy pirate.
"I ride around on a pirate ship!"
"Really!! Do they have you swabbing the deck, and hoisting the mainsail, and all that?"
"No, mostly we run around in a beaten-up Zodiac with homemade AKs. I swab the deck, but that mostly just involves swilling the blood out every now and then."
"Oh."
"...Still, pirates."
"YARRR PIRATES"