“Hot in Herre” is all about Nelly making use of a crowded space filled with women that’s bound to be really hot, thus telling them to take off their clothes. Ultimately, it’s all about...
For starters, the titular metaphor is meant to point to the concept that vocalists at hand have “a colorful aura”. Or put into more frank colloquial terms, the vocalists are saying they shine. That’s...
The late Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” was somewhat of an influential piece as far as the genre of dance music is concerned. And one can see how this classic is sorta prototypical in that...
For all of the controversy the lyrics of “Blurred Lines” generated when it was first released, reading them now, almost a decade later, may have you wondering where exactly is the beef. Maybe this confusion,...
In “Give It 2 Me”, Madonna is depicting herself as an indomitable, extremely self-confident individual. And she puts this idea in various, albeit very general, contexts, including a sexual one, to illustrate. But with this...
Most plainly translated, saying that something is “hella good” would be the same as proclaiming it is ‘really nice’. And what the vocalist is ascribing that characteristic to in this song is the way the...
From the onset, Jay-Z’s “Excuse Me Miss” starts off interestingly, or let’s say unorthodoxly considering that Jay-Z was not amongst the many famous 1990s rappers who heavily espoused marijuana consumption. Yet he commences this song by...
“Drop it like it’s hot” is one of those ubiquitous-sounding hip-hop phrases which arguably has a number of applications. But it actually originated as a term encouraging female dancers, most modernly put, to twerk. And such...
Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams’ “Beautiful” is a love song. And it is a mild one as far as Snoop is concerned, as it doesn’t really feature any NSFW language. The chorus centers on the vocalist...
The title of this song (“Get Lucky”), as well as its chorus, will logically lead some to believe that it’s sexual in nature. You see, ‘getting lucky’ is a well-known colloquial term pointing to the...