After a 4-year hiatus, Usher’s new single dropped on Tuesday. Featuring Young Jeezy and titled, “Love in This Club,” it’s a catchy tune, but has lyrics that slightly disturb me. Since it’s Usher, there’s not doubt the song is going to be huge and soon you’ll be grinding to it in all the frat houses basements and bar dance floors, but that doesn’t stop me from being just the tiniest bit skeeved out.
Okay, so the lyrics. The main chorus claims, “I wanna make love in this club” over and over. Does that sketch anyone else out? I wasn’t aware that doing the dirty in a club was considered acceptable these days. I mean, can’t we make love when we get home from the club? You know, a little bit of privacy is always good. Or at least avoiding the promise of getting arrested. Usher doesn’t “care who’s watching,” but I think I might.
I was just starting to look past the lyrics and appreciate the song for its danceability, when Young Jeezy chimes in, sounding angry and vindictive and claiming that he’ll, “bag you like some groceries.” No thank you. He wants to “make a movie, yeah, rated R,” but I kind of think if we were making love in the club, the movie would be rated at least NC-17.
We’ll just have to wait for Usher’s full-album, set to hit stores this spring and hope for some more hits like “Yeah!,” “Caught Up,” and “You Make Me Wanna” (and that’s not “You Make Me Wanna Make Love in This Club”). And for now, we can get down to the new single, welcoming back Usher’s smooth voice and trying our best to ignore the lyrics.


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Janet Jackson in the 90’s wrote:
In the thunderin’ rain You stare into my eyes I can feel your hands Moving up my thighs Skirt around my waist Wall against my face I can feel your lips I don’t wanna stop just because People walkin’ by are watchin’ us I don’t give a damn what they think I want you now I don’t wanna stop just because You feel so good inside of my love I’m not gonna stop no no no I want you all i wanna say is
Any time, and any place
I don’t care who’s around
Any time, and any place
I don’t care who’s around
Dancin’ on the floor
Feeling the slow groove
My mind is startin’ to burn
With forbidden thoughts
Strangers all around
With the light down low
I was thinkin’ maybe we
Could…well…you know…
It’s the same horney shit!.
John Legend also has a song called “P.D.A. (We Just Don’t Care)” in which he sings about doing it in the park, on a fire escape, “at your mama’s house”, etc. ha!
Maybe he means in a closed off VIP area…then again maybe not
the grocery baggin’ part made me laugh though
haha
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