Life In A Predominantly Non-English Speaking Country No 1
The next song comes on, I listen and this time the lyrics go something pretty much like ‘i want you to stand infront of me, look me in the eye and tell me you want me to fuck you. I want to fuck you like an animal’.* At this point I’m smiling and looking around the salon, trying to catch my boyfriend’s eye and wondering why no one else has noticed – I mean ‘fuck’ is a pretty easy to catch word – but nothing, no one bats an eyelid.
Now its a fairly posh salon, lots of society types who I’m sure would be mortified to hear the ‘f’ word said out aloud- let alone blaring out of the expensive salon speakers and this suddenly seems ridiculously laugh out loud funny to me. I later asked my boyfriend if he noticed. Nope, not at all.
* Not the Nine Inch Nails song.
** The boyfriend was there to prevent any dire hair mishaps by providing his much valued translation skills. Just another independence crushing moment.
Ha. Yes. I know what you mean exactly. i tuned in the other day to a song in a cafe — “ingrata! ingrata!”
I can’t imagine anyone but Morrissey singing “ungrateful!” in an English pop song.
Sorry … reading your archives, bit by bit. As you were.
Sarsparilla
May 27, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Hello, welcome, and thanks for stopping by. I’m always grateful for moments like this, to be the one laughing and no one else knows why. If I didn’t have these, I’d go completely crazy. You know, I tend to think the lyrics to pop songs say a lot about a culture! Ungrateful? – It was a love song right? :) There’s a song that was popular here a while ago that went something like ‘you don’t know how to respect love’. Hmmmm :)
thehappymisfit
May 28, 2008 at 2:29 am