The ultimate in pathetic “I want you” songs right now is James Blunt’s “Beautiful”. I can’t even listen to it. Blech.
A sample of the lyrics (very repetitive, obviously, and sung in a whiny, whiny voice):
You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful.
You’re beautiful, it’s true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it’s time to face the truth,
I will never be with you.
Blech, blech, blech. Luckily “my” station doesn’t consider him rock, so they mostly only play parodies of his songs. They like making fun of him...
What I think is so hysterically funny about the Jet song is the contrast!
It is what I consider to be very hard rock (maybe it isn’t even...but it is to me) and it’s just hard rockin’ along until he says that “gonna be my girl” part.
It makes me feel like the point the song is trying to convey is that this is a quintessential “I perceive myself as one thing, but come across as another” kind of moment.
Which I kinda relate to (in case you didn’t know).
Does that make sense?
I have never heard that one...sounds kinda syrupy.
I wouldn’t have heard the Jet song if my brother hadn’t recorded it for me. On that same disk, he recorded “American Girl” by Tom Petty and “Perfect Day” from the Legally Blonde soundtrack, among others.
For some reason he thought I would like them and he was right.